Sorry Left this off https://youtu.be/E0bhdr84FNU
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:54 PM Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > All of the 3D CAD systems work nearly idetically to this. It is like > this with modern text editors too. You highlight the word then click > "bold" and the word goes bold. The world has pretty much standardized on > how word processing works. > > > The same is true with 3D CAD. Every system allows you to draw a > constraint-based sketch then "extrude" it to a solid as in the video. > Much of the terminology and icons are alike too. > > The old 2D CAD systems remind me of those old pre-standards word > processors where we used to embed codes and have to memorize control > characters. That was all before Apple invented the current standard method > that everyone now uses > > Likewise someone invented the current method for 3D and now "everyone" is > doing the same thing. In all systems. First you select a plan and make a > sketch. Dimensions can be functions of other dimensions. then you move > the 2D sketch along a path and creat a 3D shape. > > Later you can select a plane on the 2D shape to make a sketch that cuts or > etendeds the objust > > Later to can add and substruct these thin=gs you made to make complex > things > > What is different is the number of options and features. Oshape allows > dimensions to come from a spreadsheet-like table and fusion the sketch is > be moved on a spline and not just a line. Some systems allow you to work > with free-form objects so you could make a realistic animal shape. They > all work the same but the feature sets vary > > Also the quality if the instructional videos vary. The big-players > (Autodesk, onshape and the like) hire profesional voice actors and > production crews and offer instructor led paid classes with one on one > feedback. So ther is wide choise but they all are based on common > ideas. If you can learn one you can very quickly learn anotherone like it. > > Here is a video that shows making an Arduino enclusure in Fusion 360. > Note how much it looks likethe FreeCAD video. Well except the part being > made is more complex. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 4:55 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> On Sunday 28 June 2020 13:13:53 Martin Dobbins wrote: >> >> > Hi Gene, >> > >> > The app image I'm using (since the path workbench failed) is >> > 0.18-16146. It loads the path workbench fine and hasn't crashed yet, >> > but I do have some niggles: >> > >> > It's slower than molasses to load. >> > The numerical boxes it produces in response to a dimensioning request >> > are squished and difficult to read. >> > >> > Not game changers, but still. >> > >> > I'm using this on Ubuntu 20.04 (it's just what I use at the "comfy" >> > desktop). I found the same things as you with repo versions, so I >> > originally went with: >> > >> > https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Install_on_Unix >> > >> > adding the ppa to software sources started hosing my software updates, >> > so that got removed. It was stable apart from the path workbench >> > (that could be just an Ubuntu thing you don't need to know about if >> > you aren't running Ubuntu). I wanted to use the path workbench, so >> > this version had to go. >> > >> > I got the app image here: >> > >> > https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php >> > >> > I didn't grok freecad until I watched this: >> > >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbNg3mzm84s >> > >> > Hope that helps? >> > >> Somewhat, the audio was quite low, hard to follow. >> But he sure made it look like a piece of cake. >> >> Thanks. >> >> > Martin >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Gene Heskett >> > >> > On Sunday 28 June 2020 10:26:38 N wrote: >> > > > I thought I would post this for anyone that might step this way in >> > > > future 🙂 >> > > > >> > > > Following discussions on freecad producing g-code, I've been >> > > > experimenting. The <path> workbench is where this all happens, >> > > > but going to that location produced "libnglib.so: cannot open >> > > > shared object file: No such file or directory" >> > > >> > > Draw a simple part the last week to test run machine, 2D + >> > > extrusion. Generated g-code, had to add feed rate at beginning but >> > > then it works. However had to dry run, real machine but have not >> > > been able to get correct chuck yet. >> > > >> > > Read further down about crashes but have not had this problem, for >> > > me it works fine. >> > >> > And where did you get this later and more stable release? Whats in >> > the repo's is neither late, nor stable. I've wound up nuking the last >> > 2 attempts to build it here. >> > >> > Your freecad version number please? >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Emc-users mailing list >> > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett >> > -- >> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law >> > respectable. - Louis D. 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