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Re: FreeCAD in the Browser

#11

Post by throwup238 »

s1mon wrote: post #7

Onshape is free in the browser as long as you are not doing commercial work. It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

> It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.

Re: FreeCAD in the Browser

#12

Post by NavinF »

ebspelman wrote: post #10

The launch graphic says "Ported end-to-end by Fable, an AI agent" and it definitely feels that way. Buggy, glitchy, needs some love and human eyes before it's really usable.

FreeCAD on desktop is much the same in my experience. If LLMs were mainstream a few years ago I would have assumed the UI was 100% AI generated with zero human input besides a oneshot prompt.

Re: FreeCAD in the Browser

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Post by cui »

NavinF wrote: post #12
ebspelman wrote: post #10

The launch graphic says "Ported end-to-end by Fable, an AI agent" and it definitely feels that way. Buggy, glitchy, needs some love and human eyes before it's really usable.

FreeCAD on desktop is much the same in my experience. If LLMs were mainstream a few years ago I would have assumed the UI was 100% AI generated with zero human input besides a oneshot prompt.

If Solidworks and Onshape were born after the birth of LLMs, they'd probably be glitchy as hell.

Re: FreeCAD in the Browser

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Post by Evidlo »

cui wrote: post #6
fragmede wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because then it doesn't matter what you're running locally, as long as you've got a supported browser (Chrome, I'm guessing). It means it doesn't have to make a difference if you have a Window 10 desktop or a MacBook Air or a Chromebook. Go to the web page and look at this CAD.

This. The browser as a universal platform.

Like electron, but it's fine this way for some reason.

Re: FreeCAD in the Browser

#18

Post by SequoiaHope »

throwup238 wrote: post #11
s1mon wrote: post #7

Onshape is free in the browser as long as you are not doing commercial work. It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

> It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools. Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.

Agreed. I’m not OP but for six months I’ve been using Claude to build a from-scratch CAD kernel based on Rust and WASM, MIT licensed.

The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I’ve been focused on the kernel. Fable has helped a lot though Opus was already making great headway.

I’m an OnShape power user going back about ten years, Solidworks before that. I need a CAD system that absolutely works. There is a lot of work to do still, and it still seems impossible to succeed, but I’ve been very happy with where things have been going with it lately.

It’s serverless, local, and browser based. You can load the latest binary from GitHub pages here:

https://sequoia-hope.github.io/waffle-iron/

Click the Assay menu to see the kernel test cases we’ve been using so far. Rapidly closing on 100% support!

Re: FreeCAD in the Browser

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Post by 27183 »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #18
throwup238 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools. Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.

Agreed. I’m not OP but for six months I’ve been using Claude to build a from-scratch CAD kernel based on Rust and WASM, MIT licensed. The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I’ve been focused on the kernel. Fable has helped a lot though Opus was already making great headway. I’m an OnShape power user going back about ten years, Solidworks before that. I need a CAD system that absolutely works. There is a lot of…

> It’s serverless, local, and browser based.

uhh what..

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