| ▲ | fedpost 7 hours ago | |
I'm glad people are working on this. The open source CAD world is not doing well (not you Blender<3) and even if you're willing to pay the big bucks for any of the proprietary options, they won't run on Linux without rather high levels of applied violence. That leaves cloud only options like on-shape which means they get to hold your project files hostage. I'm not sure why any business has ever come to the conclusion that losing control of their design work is acceptable but here we are. | ||
| ▲ | WillAdams 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
The thing is, there are already some notable projects: - FreeCAD --- exactly what it says on the tin, and making huge improvements, so that I am quite hopeful of 26.3 - SolveSpace --- surprisingly capable/nimble/lightweight - Dune 3D --- the new kid on the block, it is quite workable, and has quite good documentation: https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/simple-part.html (and for the hardcore programmers there are OpenSCAD and derivatives such as PythonSCAD) Wouldn't the compute from the tokens for these projects be better used improving existing projects? (there are more of these new 3D CAD tools than I can count: Cadivari, Layerling, OpenSketch, &c.) | ||
| ▲ | Mashimo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
There is also https://getartcraft.com/apps/cadcraft One of those new *craft apps that try to clean room copy well known commercial solutions. Though apparently it's currently in a very early stage (buggy) | ||