FreeCAD on the web

[danielfalck]

Here's an article on About.com about FreeCAD:

http://cad.about.com/od/Personal_CAD/fr/Freecad.htm

The author seems to like it.

[tanderson69]

I also had a little trouble selecting multiple objects for editing at first. I got used to the system after a bit (and a quick browse of the Help utility) so it’s not a big issue but once again, it isn’t what a veteran CAD user will be looking for.

Sorry! still on a campaign for the elimination of the modifier key for multiple selection.

[kwahoo]

It seems that reddit.com/r/cad knows FreeCAD. They even have FreeCAD flair (look at the sidebar).

[danielfalck]

Thanks for the link. I wonder who this 'hephaestusness' is? He claims to have a team of people working on the assembly workbench
Maybe he should come on over and interact with Juergen and the rest of us....

[kwahoo]

He wrote also:

I am working on implementing a merge of Slic3r, Prontrface and FreeCAD to add a File>Print 3D option to print right out of the modeler. In a week or so we should have a demo video of this (waiting on fixing the 3d printer here first...)

I asked Google about that and found a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAfD6VGFqo

[rockn]

Hey guys it seems that you are cited in a study of the CAD market in China from 2014 to 2018.
I want to read this report but it is too expensive (for me).
http://www.prcarbon.com/press/cad-marke ... 16561.html

[jriegel]

Further, the report states that the availability of open-source CAD software is one of the major challenges in the CAD market in China. Many open-source CAD software solutions such as BRL-CAD and FreeCAD that are present in the market are posing a major threat to commercial CAD software vendors.

Hopefully the Dassault lawyer don't read that

[tanderson69]

Hopefully the Dassault lawyer don't read that

You will have to make FreeCAD gplv3 and turn over the copyright to Stallman. Sorry I couldn't resist. I hope Dassault and Siemens both read it.

[bejant]

I want to read this report but it is too expensive (for me).

No kidding - $2500 minimum (single user license) for a 50 page report. Link is here.

[NormandC]

He wrote also:

I am working on implementing a merge of Slic3r, Prontrface and FreeCAD to add a File>Print 3D option to print right out of the modeler. In a week or so we should have a demo video of this (waiting on fixing the 3d printer here first...)

I asked Google about that and found a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAfD6VGFqo

The guy posted about his mod over on the RepRap forum. He was rebundling FreeCAD with his Python module, I told him he should just make a separate module that would not require to use his specific FreeCAD version. He agreed, but I haven't heard from him since.

Hey guys it seems that you are cited in a study of the CAD market in China from 2014 to 2018.

That report seems dubious to me. China is not known for embracing open source, they're more known to pirate their software. A few years ago when I worked on a plastic enclosure project to be manufactured in China, I was told that all the mold tooling shops over there have Pro Engineer, and none of them ever payed for a legitimate license. Granted that was hearsay.