Cloud/WebGL/HTML5/Browser ... again

[peacebeuponthee]

Hi everyone,

Is the topic still alive? Or is there still anyone who is interested in the Web-based FreeCAD?

[nyholku]

I'm interested but until the gardening season is over can't put any hours into FreeCAD.

[pablogil]

I still would love to see it alive... anyway I would only be able to help by creating the CSS style...

[vejmarie]

Even if I share Ickby and Yorik opinion on the fact that it shouldn't that hard to make it happens, this is still a lot of work. And I am like you guys, trying to figure out what might be the best value we could bring to our users.

I am not yet convinced by the "full web" approach, purely because it is quite slow on some systems. Whatever happens we will have to use WebGL and honestly the fps is not there (I ran some tests while working on node-occ). So for the next few months I will work more on how we could improve design file sharing and get better intereaction between users to get feedbacks into FreeCAD, and why not managing multiples versions of a content.

The first thing which might be "fun" is to do a native FreeCAD file web renderer. But even that I am not convinced that we need it, as currently with hierarchical STEP and node-occ I can manage this things.

The other question, might be do we want FreeCAD to be a real server ? I like the idea and the concept, but the work ahead is just quite huge either. I can check if I can reuse some code from node OCC to do that either. A lot of ideas, not enough time

[engdham]

Hello,

I just found this:
http://web-cad.org/?sample

It's open-source:
https://github.com/xibyte/jsketcher

It look like inspired by FreeCAD (look at it's Sketch toolset).

If it could open fcstd files... We'd be able to open them even in smartphones/tablets.

Considering that we can already host our files in a cloud environment (or even better in Grabcad), it'd would open a lot of new possibilities.

Just dreaming

[pablogil]

I like it... I still think online apps are the future (if not the present).

[galou_breizh]

I like the idea of the "Lock convexity" tool in the sketcher.

[s.vaichu]

i like this idea...this is exactly wat i have been looking for.
Have been using FreeCAD and OnShape for a while and i feel the proprietary nature of OnShape is forcing all the users to use their cloud only.
Instead there should be an option for users choose the cloud service or create their own. This would only be possible with a FOSS implementation of OnShape for freeCAD.

i have also tried VNC,RDP and rollapp like services..there is so much lag which is not present in OnShape, that is exactly required from a cloud based CAD

[mmiscool]

Been playing with a concept that might be relevant to this conversation.
Have an early stage functional FreeCAD docker image. Also implemented the start of html based tool bar interface. Not ready for prime time but some thing to possibly play with.
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=42295

[pablogil]

Been playing with a concept that might be relevant to this conversation.
Have an early stage functional FreeCAD docker image. Also implemented the start of html based tool bar interface. Not ready for prime time but some thing to possibly play with.
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=42295

WOW!!!!!!