Has anyone done FreeCAD benchmarking for the maximum number of parts in the part tree? I'm at 3600+ simple parts in the part tree for a sample benchmark file of house framing construction, and the file is 8M. At this point, load times are about a minute on a Ryzen 3600 desktop, and the view window i...

Does Draft Clone work on meshes as well? I am trying to scale an OBJ import from SweetHome3D, but it appears that the only way to scale meshes is to convert them to shapes first in the Part workbench. The downside is that the mesh conversion process increses the file size by 5x or so. Is that so? So...

.. and of course, one of my favourite pages so far, which show that free software has a very strong foundation :) https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Free_Software_directory Enjoy :) Opus dei. Also, there is open sourcce axial flux wind turbine modeling software for the energy side of build...

Here is a simple full BOM generation pipeline using brute force methods - but completely workable pending proper manangement of part libraries and modules for complicated design. This is how we intent to generate full BOMs of the Seed Eco-Home 2 launching in 2021. The BOM generation workflow is this...

I am trying to import Sketchup Collada files (.dae) and I have installed Pycollada as below. But it still gives me the error - 'pycollada not found, collada support is disabled.' Any suggestions? Full install log is at https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Pycollada Thanks, Marcin ----------------...

If the software is good, and it's well beyond good, it will attract users. With the current stability, power, usability, and multi-platform, it's just a matter of time before FreeCAD displaces everybody on the lower cost part of the CAD market. That should attract more donations. It seems to me tha...

marcin_ose wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:36 pm

An aside: @marcin_ose would OSE meet the criteria for becoming a GSoC organization that could attract students ?
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I think so. We should try that.

May I ask why files produces 2020 year are still made with FreeCAD 0.16R6712 (Git)? At least Simpleextruderassy.fcstd is... FreeCAD 16 is easier to use, so we prefer it for entry-level workflows in order to onboard newcomers to our project readily. This brings up a question to this community - what...

.... Sponsoring developers to enhance aspects of FC like Arch, Path, FEM, etc... Is there any formal process for sponsoring FreeCAD development? I would be interested in collaborating on this if there is no prior work so we can come up with a list of priority points, qualified developers, their ava...

Mark Szlazak wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 30, 2018 2:54 am

Check out how shares of the following have been over the last 5 years.
Solidworks, CREO/PTC, Seimens NX, Catia, AutoCAD, IronCAD

Can you point us to that data? Link?