Re:Curated Code CAD (2020)
by regularfry on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:40AM
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There's definitely room for a UI remix that just embeds a couple of critical workbenches for specific workflows. I use it for designing things for 3d printing, and I spend all of my time in 3 workbenches, maybe 4 if I'm doing something unusual. There's a lot of UI/UX noise I don't need to care about.
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There is, it's called SALOME. I've found it to be more intuitive than FreeCAD and they share a lot of code. Blows my mind that it's not more widely known. Bad marketing I guess - it's billed as a CFD preprocessor.
I'm curious: have you found a way to export your models to a mesh file format (eg obj) with some amount of control tessellation?
Last I tried, I didn't manage to find the control. I assume it exists, but the UI was simply to painful to navigate.
I mention SALOME above - it's a bit of a sister project to FreeCAD, and it has extensive mesh generation facilities as part of its role as a CFD pre-processor. I've no doubt you could use this to assert fine control over a surface mesh export.