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Re: We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

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Fruit picking is a thing. You may want to 3D print some everlasting apples for tests.

CAD is a 3D modeling tool. its not the only one, and other tools are better suited for something like an apple. you can still post-process it to get it right sized for a printer

Oh come on, a nice 3D model of parametric apples in OpenSCAD would be so neat to have.

Re: We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

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Door knob seems to return a bunch of chess pieces and analog sticks, I did get a few doors and a few knobs, but nothing I recognized as a door knob. I didn't spend a super long time looking though so that might have been the problem there. Also suggestion, giving the ability to link to specific models might be useful (I tried a few things on mobile, url doesn't change and searching for a specific model ID doesn't return the model).

Re: We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

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"box with a hole in it" resulted in a number of boxes and most of these did obviously have holes in them. some did not appear to, but being that they were largely enclosures for some sort of device (as opposed to storage or transport) I'll assume there was some hidden fastener clearance holes or something.

I really only wanted one hole in my box though, so I adjusted the query to "box with a single hole in it". the results looked indentical. except for one that stood out. I would link to the particular model, but there was no way to do that. this model appears to be a rectangular bathroom basin, on its side. I'd describe it as perhaps a ~currently fashionable porcelain design, but it could be a concrete 'getting shit done' sink, or a model from The Sims (the first one). so box-like perhaps, but not many people would describe it as a box. I guess my search continues (elsewhere)...

(actually interesting bit about natural language: I know that a box with two (or more) holes in it has a single hole in it, but most English natural language parsers (humans) will notice that specifying 'single' would be redundant if I wanted any number more than zero, so it's extremely unlikely that I was looking for a multi-hole box.)

where did you steal the models from, by the way? just curious. the original context in which they were found would actually be helpful if someone was for some reason trying to actually use this as a tool. [ed: saw the OP's comment down the page -- you can include a comment with the submission IIRC]

also if you don't have the 3D model spinning incessantly, having the page open won't be obnoxious and it won't (have to) waste power

Re: We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

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It's CAD. Doesn't make sense to engineer an apple...

Fruit picking is a thing. You may want to 3D print some everlasting apples for tests.

I've just now done exactly this. Model something (not an apple) not because I want to print it, but because I need to import it into CAD to check clearances etc. around it. I can abolsutely imagine modelling different sized apples if I was building an apple sorting machine.

Re: We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fruit picking is a thing. You may want to 3D print some everlasting apples for tests.

I've just now done exactly this. Model something (not an apple) not because I want to print it, but because I need to import it into CAD to check clearances etc. around it. I can abolsutely imagine modelling different sized apples if I was building an apple sorting machine.

I do this all the time when working with stuff that is either perishable or expensive. I just print a 3D model of it and use that as a stand in for the real thing until I have it working.
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