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This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
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I am not an expert but surely an under constrained sketch is not a completed sketch. Does "fully constrained" mean the simplest set of constraints that yields a shape (volume/hypervolume)? Or something rather more complicated? A simple yes or no, with a pointer to a paper will do!
To add to delhanty's reply, a "degree of freedom" can be thought of as a dimension of the drawing that can be changed or "stretched" or moved without violating a constraint (this is slightly inaccurate, but it's a good start). In a CAD program, a fully constrained drawing can't be freely stretched or dragged around; the program won't let you and the drawing will feel "rigid". It's very intuitive if you play around wi…
the Github page of which has the following footnote:
>I ended up directly using solvespace's solver instead of the suggested wrapper code since it didn't expose all of the features I needed. I also had to patch the solver to make it sufficiently fast for the kinds of equations I was generating by symbolically solving equations where applicable. ↩
Which really impressed me because it was the first graphical and interactive 3D program I tried which felt sort of comfortable and understandable (which is why I mostly use OpenSCAD and similar programmatic approaches).
You might be mildly interested in the fact that "hestus" in Greek can (and will) be read as "shit (on) them!"
Good luck guys! I watched the video on YT - hopefully will get around to trying the Fusion 360 add-in at some point. Does the current add-in use AI at all? What is your plan when, in the event of you getting some traction, Autodesk etc. copy you innovations into the main product? As per my other comments [1][2], I worked on this area at D-Cubed and Solidworks from 1995 to 2002. Feel free to connect with me via twitte…
I have been using fusion360, at least once a week for 7 years. I don't find I am ever bogged down in tedious, repetitive tasks. The sort of thing in your video is completely second nature to me and the least of my problems. This said, it sure looks cool. What would be good would be something more like "I want to make a shape centered on this object on this other complex object, what's the best way to do it with the s…
I've used CAD nearly every day for my entire engineering career, and this feels like a logical step. My day is filled with a tedium of micromanaging Solidworks or NX to simply do what I need. It takes very little time for me to envision a solution, but it takes ages of clunking through UI to actualize it. I'll be on board once you have SW support, I'd be interested in implementing it immediately. My questions: 1) Wha…
That bit about auto-generating BOMs is awesome. Any chance you've thought about supporting the engineer with cost-saving recommendations? I met a bunch of aerospace engineers a long time ago -- thinking about working on a software product in contract manufacturing or PDM -- and a common theme was the struggle to optimize the design for cost of manufacture. Seems like something you guys are thinking about if focused o…
This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
If any founders are interested I'd be happy to go into more detail.
I've been using parametric CAD (Pro/E / Creo, Solidworks, and Onshape) for 30+ years. Automatically adding sketch constraints is nothing new. Just about any 2D sketching tool out there will have some sort of snapping and/or auto-constraint-adding system. What's often more frustrating is fixing things when they get accidentally over-constrained. Solidworks tries to help with this in the form of cycling through what it…
I was wondering if AI might help with writing FeatureScript. I’ve only scratched the surface but have leaned heavily on what other people have written for documentation.
Was a Mechanical Design Engineer for about a decade. Personally, the CAD part was the easy and fun part (Used Solidworks, Creo, Inventor, Catia v5 extensively. Professionally trained in all four as well). The “tedious” part was SAP (part number and material management), drafting, ECN/R/O, BOM handling, etc. I would be more excited for “AI” for PLM like Windchill, TeamCenter, or Cadedge (or whatever SAP PLM packages y…