That is exactly what I am working on. But instead of commercial hosting websites I am building a free and open one. It will also run on a PaaS, so that it is (relatively) easly to run your own hosting platform. On the other hand, the uploaded designs will be published through the Thingtracker Networ...

Hi Normand, yes, I guess CADinets viewer would also be "vulnerable" in this sense. I actually don't see a way to make this harder except using flash or other locked down plugins. But I don't think this is a problem for CADinet, as it would only host openly licensed models anyway (everythin...

Yes, I have to refactor the BOLTS package slightly to make it also run headless.

Das kommt ein bisschen darauf an, wie du drucken moechtest. Mit einem FFF oder FDM Prozess (Plastik wird schicht fuer schicht extrudiert, das verwenden die meisten Hobby drucker) kann man das Modell nur mit Unterstuetzungsstrukturen drucken. Ich kenne die genauen Anforderungen nicht, aber ein Weg, d...

Thanks for all the replies! This happened a lot faster than I thought. In general what you have described is pretty much what I wanted, just a way to access easily, and by name, all the BOLTS parts in a python script. While assembiles are still under development I prefer to create all my shapes in ...

It was really easy. Apart from a slight confusion because of python import magic it was only a few lines. So, there is a development snapshot with a python interface to test: http://www.bolts-library.org/en/downloads.html It is not yet documented, but you can use it like this: import BOLTS BOLTS.add...

Hi, I prepared everything for a python interface to BOLTS in my last larger code reorganisation, but I did not yet actually add it. It should be very easy, and I have a train ride tomorrow ... At the moment the basefunctions get passed a document and add the part there. This is intentional, as this ...

Was fuer ein Betriebssystem verwendest du? Hast du irgendwelche Updates installiert? Evtl. auch ueber die AutoUpdate Funktion von Windows?

Kommt darauf an, in welchem Format. FreeCAD kann aber die verbreitetsten Format STEP und IGES lesen, sollte also in den meisten Faellen funktionieren.

Ausserdem gibt es fuer Standardteile noch http://www.bolts-library.org, befindet sich aber erst im Aufbau.

BTW, I just pushed a current development snapshot for BOLTS, which should give you the missing socket heads, among other improvements.

http://www.bolts-library.org/en/downloads.html