This is pretty fun! Let me throw out an additional challenge: I've been seeing videos around of DIY CNC wire benders like this , this and this one that can't do 3D bends I haven't seen any open source software to generate the gcode for these. So, maybe we want to add a wire-bending operation to the ...

Beautiful!

Nice work! I only see one teensy problem: Squeezing the legs will make the spring tighter not looser.

How would you like feedback? Should i post here or create issues on your github repo?

Hi marvinscav, That book was published by Packt Publishing in 2012. It was written targeting the (at that time) stable version 0.12. Suffice to say a LOT has changed since then and we're nearing completion on version 0.19. Packt has not shown any interest in revising the book. I wrote a new book tar...

I made a video about modeling this torsion spring. I knew I some rough parts to my method and also knew the youtube community would contribute helpful advice ;) They did. And almost all of it was really helpful. I'm posting here so viewers have an additional place to comment and to upload files. htt...

Hey Jean-Marie, I was fascinated by this idea at FOSDEM. It's very cool that you decided to open-source it. Do you have any more documentation on deploying a private install? It might be cool for someone to build a docker image that anyone could put up quickly to experiment with or use in-house. I'm...

What about https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/index.html.?

I'm already considering IMTS in Chicago this September. I've reached out to see if there are any FOSS working groups we can connect with.
https://www.imts.com/

I modified the file thinking this will auto generate the output file upon postprocessing, but so far I come up with the same file regardless of my modifications. The post-processor is a python module so it needs to be reloaded before the changes become effective. You can either restart FreeCAD, or ...