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Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
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Re: Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
#72FreeCAD is the worst. Thanks for building this!
I’ve tried FreeCAD multiple times, but I’m just too used to Rhino 3D. Unfortunately, it’s rather expensive. Anyone need a slightly used, low-mileage, one owner soul?
FWIW, I've been kind of kicking myself for being bamboozled into buying a Plasticity Studio license --- really, really wish I'd instead bought Moment of Inspiration 3D (which is by the lead developer of Rhino 3D).
Curious what folks think of MOI3D (and if there is any other similar CAD tool other than maybe Shapr3D).
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#73Its not often you see 'fillets and chamfers' are tip-line features in the readme for CAD packages. But good on you for building something.
It has been one of the main complaints about openscad for some time
Hull and Minkowski operations sort of allow one to do this sort of thing, but add to the mathematical complexity in what is probably the worst-possible way....
Re: Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
#74Its not often you see 'fillets and chamfers' are tip-line features in the readme for CAD packages. But good on you for building something.
This is honestly the first thing I look for with anything new claiming "CAD". Roughly every other week there is a new "The (programmable) CAD that fixes everything!" post on the front page, just for me to open them up excitedly and noticing that they use a mesh kernel and will thus never be able to provide fillets and chamfers painlessly (for the user). All while they are absolutely essential for a lot of designs, es…
G2 fillets are the next frontier. Even Fusion doesn't seem to handle them well. I mean they can be created without much drama, but geometry derived from them is very likely to fail with no real reason.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
KiCad - https://www.kicad.org/
that's for PCB design, it's not a 3D CAD tool
The Wikipedia template for CAD software
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CAD_software
distinguishes between 5 types of CAD software:
1. Mechanical
2. Architectural (AEC)
3. Electrical
4. Optical
5. Garment
Thus: KiCad is clearly a CAD application, though not of the Mechanical, but of the Electrical category (and is listed in the linked template as such).
Re: Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I just end up using Fusion 360. But depending on a freebie for hobbyists that could be withdrawn any time it's a bit worrying. I wish there were good visual tools. I don't like browser based and blender is too focused on animation (I'm more into 3D printing) so I haven't found a good FOSS alternative. FreeCAD isn't it anyway.
3dDune is actually pretty capable and simple for basic usecases. Plasticity for free form hard surface CAD modeling. If you need parametric CAD then the learning curve jumps significantly and FreeCAD nowdays actually makes sense as with a bit of practice and customization you get to great place. FreeCAD feels like Blender few years before v2.80 - people outright dismissed it because it had a bit unconventional UX but…
Autodesk making Fusion worse in any way could be the catalyst for FreeCAD to realize its full potential
Re: Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I just end up using Fusion 360. But depending on a freebie for hobbyists that could be withdrawn any time it's a bit worrying. I wish there were good visual tools. I don't like browser based and blender is too focused on animation (I'm more into 3D printing) so I haven't found a good FOSS alternative. FreeCAD isn't it anyway.
Note it's only a freebie if you are on Windows/Mac, too. If you're on Linux, it works terribly on wine and you have to use the browser version, and then you need a $95/month subscription.
Yeah I have a Windows gaming box which I use so I use it on that. I would not use a 3D design tool in the browser anyway.
Re: Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I just end up using Fusion 360. But depending on a freebie for hobbyists that could be withdrawn any time it's a bit worrying. I wish there were good visual tools. I don't like browser based and blender is too focused on animation (I'm more into 3D printing) so I haven't found a good FOSS alternative. FreeCAD isn't it anyway.
3dDune is actually pretty capable and simple for basic usecases. Plasticity for free form hard surface CAD modeling. If you need parametric CAD then the learning curve jumps significantly and FreeCAD nowdays actually makes sense as with a bit of practice and customization you get to great place. FreeCAD feels like Blender few years before v2.80 - people outright dismissed it because it had a bit unconventional UX but…
I don't really do simple designs, and making them parametric would be really difficult. I'm just more visually oriented than mathematical.
But yeah FreeCAD I just can't get my head around it right now.
Re: Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
#79Dune3d comes off like a reskin of SolveSpace. SolveSpace is pretty awesome, so that's not a knock, per se. I'll leave it to somebody with more experience to fill in what value Dune3D adds beyond SolveSpace.
The main things Dune3D has over solvespace are 1 - the ability to include STEP files in assemblies, and 2 - the ability to put a chamfer or fillet on the top/bottom of an extrusion. I don't think it has the ability to select arbitrary edges and apply such features (I could be wrong).
Solvespace 3.2 is essentially done (try the latest edge build), we just need to get github to produce the correct artifacts (not sure what broke). After that we will be adding named parameters to be used in sketches, and I'll try to get back to the chamfer/fillet problem and NURBS issues.
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#80is there something like sketchup make that isn't stuck in 2017?