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- Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:06 pm
- Forum: Open discussion
- Topic: Backing Datastore
- Replies: 2
- Views: 191
Backing Datastore
I am curious to know how CAD programs and FreeCAD in particular stores data? Is it a relational DB, an object store, NoSQL, a structured file format or something else? The reason I'm asking is that I've been exploring Graph Databases recently and there are some really useful features. They contain v...
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: Lighting feature request
- Replies: 9
- Views: 664
Re: Lighting feature request
Thank you all for your responses. Taking them in no particular order: I am aware that the rendering is done externally, I use POVray (without much success because of difficulty setting up the lighting) _ I used to use Kpovmodeler (a KDE modeller), which was tied to POV but which allowed cameras and ...
- Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:20 pm
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: Lighting feature request
- Replies: 9
- Views: 664
Lighting feature request
I'm just going to come out with it... It is perverse that I have access to create my CAD model in FreeCAD, but cannot use it to place lights. Manually text editing a template file to specify the lights seems just the most bizarre twist of poor usability I could think of, and exporting to Blender to ...
- Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:54 pm
- Forum: UX/UI Design
- Topic: Arrays, snap and origins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 505
Re: Arrays, snap and origins
Many thanks for the update. The one that isn't implemented; offsetting an array would be very useful. Using the tiling example, it would allow me to accurately plan the tile arrangement and also align tiles on the floor plane and wall planes.
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 11:30 pm
- Forum: UX/UI Design
- Topic: Arrays, snap and origins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 505
Arrays, snap and origins
Hi, Having used FreeCAD 0.18 to fairly comprehensively CAD my bathroom, I have come across at least three issues for which I'd like to propose enhancements. It's entirely possible that some/all of these are possible but even if they are, the usability is impenetrable to me. Arrays When I want to til...