FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler

Re:FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametr... by mch82 on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:08AM (#24516245)

FreeCAD is a traditional CAD tool based on sketches, pads, and pockets. CAD designers I’ve spoken with who use that style tool think out their designs outside the CAD tool. They know how to translate concepts into the parametric CAD language.

MagicaVoxel — https://ephtracy.github.io/ — will work with your 3D printer & is closer to building sandcastles. It’s a simpler way to get started.

Once you go back to FreeCAD, open the Python console. You’ll see the code that goes with each step in the GUI!

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Re:FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametr... by dekhn on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:54AM (#24516786)

The sketches/pads/pockets are just one of the workbenches in FreeCAD (Sketch/Part Design). There is also Part, which is CSG on geometric primitive. And a bunch of others that almost nobody uses, like Ship Design.

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Re:FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametr... by themodelplumber on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:37AM (#24517298)

MagicaVoxel looks pretty neat, thanks. According to an article I found from 2018, it can also be used via Wine in Linux. Fingers crossed.

https://medium.com/tech-notes-and-geek-stuff/install-magicav...

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Re:FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametr... by RobertKerans on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:18PM (#24520104)

Installed it multiple times on multiple machines over the last few years and it"s always worked absolutely perfectly via Wine (and I'm always surprised every time I fire it up and everything works, not sure why!)

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