Yes, triangles. But thousands of very tiny triangles. The triangle
cover the surface of a 3D object just like thousand of tiny rectangles
cover the surface of a 2D image. Maybe the analogy with pixels is not
perfect but in both cases the ability to edit objects is gone and all you
have is
On Monday 29 June 2020 20:54:19 Chris Albertson wrote:
> It is rare for a CAD program to be able to modify .STL files. In
> Fusion360 there is a way to transform STL back into editable CAD and I
> think Onshape can do the same.
>
> An analogy is that you can edit text with a word processor
Are you certain that an STL is " just 3D pixels and has lost all the lines,
angles, and circles and points that the CAD file had."? I thought that an
STL file was made up of the coordinates of the vertices of triangles rather
than pixels.
> -Original Message-
> From: Chris Albertson
It is rare for a CAD program to be able to modify .STL files. In
Fusion360 there is a way to transform STL back into editable CAD and I
think Onshape can do the same.
An analogy is that you can edit text with a word processor but if you take
a photo of the document with your cell phone, the
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 23:01, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
> Now, I'm likely totally wrong, but companies tied
> to DirectX have an incentive to keep Windows up there, and they are slowly
> getting hammered, and re-writing for OpenGL is of course $$
Autodesk have Fusion as a native app on the
Hi Bruce;
They are either dinosaurs, ref:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-linux-is-now-more-used-on-azure-than-windows-server/
or they are using DirectX, rather than OpenGL.
I did spend a *little* bit of time on the HTML5 standards group, and was
interested to hear of
On Monday 29 June 2020 16:53:43 Gene Heskett wrote:
> And loaded up the .stl for that half a pulley I tried to make a hub
> for yesterday, but I didn't get a touch off right and it was about
> .5mm too small for the plastic. FreeCAD rendered it nicely, but I
> couldn't get it to measure anything,
Soon after the introduction of Fusion360, I inquired about a Linux
version on the Fusion360 forum. I expressed the belief that Autodesk
must be using cross platform development tools, and while it wouldn't be
as simple as clicking a Compile For Linux button, it shouldn't be too
difficult to
And loaded up the .stl for that half a pulley I tried to make a hub for
yesterday, but I didn't get a touch off right and it was about .5mm too
small for the plastic. FreeCAD rendered it nicely, but I couldn't get it
to measure anything, nor modify it in any way.
So I went back to OpenScad
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 21:19, Chris Albertson wrote:
> I bet they open this up to everyone. Mac is moving to Arm processors and
> it would be easier for Autodesk to open up running in a browser then to
> poort to Arm.
I doubt that there will be much difficulty porting. Apple have done
this
Chris Albertson Wrote:
"Surprisingly Onshape is very fast. You might think that a browser-based 3D
CAD would be sluggish but Onshape on my Linux system is MUCH faster than
Fusion360 on my iMac.The comparison is slightly un-fair because my
Linux PC is a 16-core Xeon with 64GB RAM, and Nvidia
> It looks like running in a browser is one of the features you get with a
> paid subscription. Subscription is not a bad deal at $250 per year if you
> use it daily and you are making $100K per year with it.
You happen to know anywhere make this money with it?
In case I could work half as
It looks like running in a browser is one of the features you get with a
paid subscription. Subscription is not a bad deal at $250 per year if you
use it daily and you are making $100K per year with it.$250 is worth
just getting generative design and the more advanced CAM features
I bet
I'm pretty sure this is a spoof and done for laughs, but this is the kind of
thing that can happen if your cam doesn't let you specify which part to cut out
first and doesn't cope well with drag knives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1fs3ByL2Jg
I haven't had too much time to play today but
FreeCAD is Open Source. You can add any new feature to it you want.
But for simple engraving dxf2gcode or maybe pycam works. Both are open
source and written in Python and should run on any computer. Fusion360
will create the vCare-like tool paths also it does parallel passes or
watermark or
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 19:01, Chris Albertson wrote:
> Onshape runs in a browser. Fusion 360 is a native app for Windows and Mac.
You definitely could run Fusion 360 in a browser in 2017.
If I try to "open in web browser" one of my F360 models then I get
told I don't have the correct
Onshape runs in a browser. Fusion 360 is a native app for Windows and Mac.
You can run Onshape in Chrome on a Linux system. To run Fusion360 on
Linux, you need to run it in a virtual machine with Windows.
If people have bought older PCs to run LinuxCNC, you do not want o run any
kind of CAD
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 02:16, Martin Dobbins wrote:
> Very cool, shame it doesn't run on Linux.
>
I think that you can run Fusion in a web browser, so that might be an
option for Linux.
I use Fusion a lot, but I hate myself for it.
--
atp
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On 29/06/2020 01:10, Chris Albertson wrote:
I've been hunting and following up leads but I've not seen a complete free
CAM system. Maybe Fusion's comes closest.
A good project would be for someone to make a feature matrix.
That would certainly be useful. I still use vCarve when I need a
On Sunday 28 June 2020 20:24:35 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 28 June 2020 13:24:24 andy pugh wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 18:06, Gene Heskett
>
> wrote:
> > > And I can't find an "unhomez" pin. Axis as a gui can do it, so
> > > where is this pin hiding?
> >
> > halui.joint.N.unhome
>
>
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