Great progress. We will try to run thermal simulations for open source 3D printer extruder design at our upcoming Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp - https://www.opensourceecology.org/open- ... stem-camp/.

Hi FreeCAD People, We are growing our operations, just having hired 2 full time developers to set up Open Source Ecology operations in California. We are working on the Open Source Microfactory - https://microfactory.opensourceecology.org/workshops/ . We are running workshops as our revenue model, w...

I'm trying to rotate the nozzle for a 3D printer cooling fan: https://github.com/OpenSourceEcology/3D-Printer-Part-Library/blob/master/leftnozzle.stl - system info below. Is the STL rotation buggy? It allows me rotation by a single angle for any of the 3 axes. However, trying to do a second rotation...

<t>Dorogz - did you give this any more thoughts since 2015? I'd like to hear any new insights that you may have.<br/>
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Marcin</t>

Can anyone point me to other threads on FreeCAD usability and forward motion in terms of the FreeCAD interface? We've been using FreeCAD as our core tool since 2 years now, migrating from Sketchup. Sketchup does not allow for any real engineering, while FreeCAD does. I made the self-proclaimed best ...

Excellent work. With some headscratching, we may soon be able to figure out how to couple cheapo 500W laser diode stacks to fibers for building laser cutters for metal. 500W laser Diodes are available for around $1000 like https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/diode-laser-hair-removal-500w-808nm_60...

Friends,

This is good - according to the Wevolver newsletter (https://blog.wevolver.com/newsletter/), FreeCAD has a 1.7% market share:



Any thoughts on how to increase that?

Marcin

Hello ickby, Thank you. Yesterday the move and rotate tools were not working for me with an STL for some reason. I tried again today with the same STL - it works. I have noticed that starting a new document helps with a clean slate. Converting STLs to solids works well in FreeCAD when the derivative...

Hello, I have imported an STL file into FreeCAD, and am using the Draft Workbench. I am trying to copy and rotate the STL object. This thread - http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15185&p=120865&hilit=convert+stl+to+step#p120865 - shows that the STL must be converted to a solid first. I ...

Was there any discussion on this forum regarding building a cloud collaborative CAD solution? I saw a 2012 post by Juergen stating that cloud is the eventual direction, but are there simple, innovative architectures for implementing collaborative CAD without making any deep changes to FreeCAD right ...