Would be so great to have an easily usable rendering solution in FreeCAD.
CADRays has proven as a great "quick'n'dirty" solution, allowing to import structured STEP Files and assign materials really easily.

That really is a shame. I enjoy using CadRays, at it is by way the simplest and fastest solution for quick good looking renders.
Just import the STEP File with having the parts structure still intact, assign some materials to these parts - done.

Are there any news on the Linux version of CadRays?

Thanks guys, your answers are really appreciated.
Seems I missed out on the most important discussions going on on this.

Thats really good to hear. Thanks for the superquick reply.
And Python3 first definitely makes a lot of sense.

I must say, I also fear that the is developing more and more into a fork. This thread is now 4 months old, and it seems somehow, there is no interest in merging. I would have expected at least a real discussion, if a merge is possible, or what needs to be done to make it possible would happen, but t...

He has a donate button on his Github (also linked in signature)

After all asm3 is never be Freecad 2 or what so ever... it is just a huge developmemt branch. Thats the question, what happens without a merge. I for instance use the Assembly3 branch like a FreeCAD 2 version. It might be buggy and incomplete, but the main branch without Assembly is missing THE imp...

Would be great, if it was designed in FreeCAD

A big thank you from me too, I also dropped a small donation (and aswell already did to some other developers where I knew how to do that). I absolutely appreciate you fantastic work, and really am looking forward to it. The main missing aspects in FreeCAD for me currently are an Assembly module wor...