Depending on the technical landscape, that is, how technically viable it is and how much needs to be done and when, this is a sizeable project, probably a couple hundred person hours to get to a beta version, and then there is a lot of potential for further improvements to allow the system to be eve...

Hey everyone, I am trying to investigate making a module for freecad that does a few things associated with a new digital fabrication tool I am involved with developing. I have been investigating Fusion 360 but would greatly prefer to put the development time and effort into using open source softwa...

hm, I need video of someone actually using the system, tutorials I have surpassed now. As an aside, and just an aside, I noticed that some of the models are not ready to make. Not actually precise. The model I showed in the op was/is ready to manufacture, fully precise. That's the way I try to work.

I know about datums, although I don't see much what they have to offer much here, I have never heard of shapebinders... it still remains a mystery to me exactly how you would model such a thing, especially in a reasonably efficient way. for example, with the table yorik uses in his tutuorial https:/...

I have gone through Yorik's tutorial, and read around a lot on the wiki, watched quite a few videos and spent tens of hours trying to fuddle with freecad. I think what I need is to see a video or in person of someone actually using it to do serious, real things. Anyone know where I might find this? ...

CAD is an extremely important part of the manufacturing world, of course. Pivotal. As we imagine the world ahead, it will rapidly become more so, as initiatives like the fab city initiatives, fab labs, makerspaces, truly useful 3d printers, become a real force. But again and again when I ask people ...

We are having great difficulty getting a step file into native librecad, you can see the file here:http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEBPressJuneGroup.fcstd I remember when using solidworks I had an easy time modifying the step files, and step objects were not dumb vector graphics but had their...

oh ok, awesome. How can I learn the workflow for producing and editing such assemblies, though? Solidworls for instance has clear turorials.

Ok, I have previously tried to discern the answer to this myself, including by downloading and spending several hours with freecad. As far as I can tell, the use of freecad to design, from paper sketches for instance, and to modify and update say 20 times, a machine with say 20 moving parts, is not ...