Very cool, shame it doesn't run on Linux. I'm pleased to say (kudos to the developers) that Freecad isn't any more difficult than that. It runs on Windows, Mac or Linux, so I think the people who wrote it had to do a lot more work than the people who wrote Fusion 360 and without a paycheck. There's no nagware or promising you aren't using it for profit, either.
I just tested the latest version via Appimage and the loading times have reduced and the numerical boxes issue has gone. Martin ________________________________ From: Chris Albertson Sorry Left this off https://youtu.be/E0bhdr84FNU On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:54 PM Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > All of the 3D CAD systems work nearly idetically to this. It is like > this with modern text editors too. You highlight the word then click > "bold" and the word goes bold. The world has pretty much standardized on > how word processing works. > > > The same is true with 3D CAD. Every system allows you to draw a > constraint-based sketch then "extrude" it to a solid as in the video. > Much of the terminology and icons are alike too. > > The old 2D CAD systems remind me of those old pre-standards word > processors where we used to embed codes and have to memorize control > characters. That was all before Apple invented the current standard method > that everyone now uses > > Likewise someone invented the current method for 3D and now "everyone" is > doing the same thing. In all systems. First you select a plan and make a > sketch. Dimensions can be functions of other dimensions. then you move > the 2D sketch along a path and creat a 3D shape. > > Later you can select a plane on the 2D shape to make a sketch that cuts or > etendeds the objust > > Later to can add and substruct these thin=gs you made to make complex > things > > What is different is the number of options and features. Oshape allows > dimensions to come from a spreadsheet-like table and fusion the sketch is > be moved on a spline and not just a line. Some systems allow you to work > with free-form objects so you could make a realistic animal shape. They > all work the same but the feature sets vary > > Also the quality if the instructional videos vary. The big-players > (Autodesk, onshape and the like) hire profesional voice actors and > production crews and offer instructor led paid classes with one on one > feedback. So ther is wide choise but they all are based on common > ideas. If you can learn one you can very quickly learn anotherone like it. > > Here is a video that shows making an Arduino enclusure in Fusion 360. > Note how much it looks likethe FreeCAD video. Well except the part being > made is more complex. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 4:55 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> On Sunday 28 June 2020 13:13:53 Martin Dobbins wrote: >> >> > Hi Gene, >> > >> > The app image I'm using (since the path workbench failed) is >> > 0.18-16146. It loads the path workbench fine and hasn't crashed yet, >> > but I do have some niggles: >> > >> > It's slower than molasses to load. >> > The numerical boxes it produces in response to a dimensioning request >> > are squished and difficult to read. >> > >> > Not game changers, but still. >> > >> > I'm using this on Ubuntu 20.04 (it's just what I use at the "comfy" >> > desktop). I found the same things as you with repo versions, so I >> > originally went with: >> > >> > https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Install_on_Unix >> > >> > adding the ppa to software sources started hosing my software updates, >> > so that got removed. It was stable apart from the path workbench >> > (that could be just an Ubuntu thing you don't need to know about if >> > you aren't running Ubuntu). I wanted to use the path workbench, so >> > this version had to go. >> > >> > I got the app image here: >> > >> > https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php >> > >> > I didn't grok freecad until I watched this: >> > >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbNg3mzm84s >> > >> > Hope that helps? >> > >> Somewhat, the audio was quite low, hard to follow. >> But he sure made it look like a piece of cake. >> >> Thanks. >> >> > Martin >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Gene Heskett >> > >> > On Sunday 28 June 2020 10:26:38 N wrote: >> > > > I thought I would post this for anyone that might step this way in >> > > > future 🙂 >> > > > >> > > > Following discussions on freecad producing g-code, I've been >> > > > experimenting. The <path> workbench is where this all happens, >> > > > but going to that location produced "libnglib.so: cannot open >> > > > shared object file: No such file or directory" >> > > >> > > Draw a simple part the last week to test run machine, 2D + >> > > extrusion. Generated g-code, had to add feed rate at beginning but >> > > then it works. However had to dry run, real machine but have not >> > > been able to get correct chuck yet. >> > > >> > > Read further down about crashes but have not had this problem, for >> > > me it works fine. >> > >> > And where did you get this later and more stable release? Whats in >> > the repo's is neither late, nor stable. I've wound up nuking the last >> > 2 attempts to build it here. >> > >> > Your freecad version number please? >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Emc-users mailing list >> > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett >> > -- >> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law >> > respectable. - Louis D. 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