Re:Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
by fxtentacle on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:07PM
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FreeCAD isn't even mentioned, but it implements precisely that "work on geometry step by step" workflow.
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Re:Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
by claimred on Sunday July 31, 2022 @05:53PM
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It is mentioned on author's website though. https://www.fornjot.app/blog/the-world-needs-another-cad-pro...
>There is lots of interesting space between "hobbyist" and "can justify to spend loads of money", and I tend to find myself right in the middle of that.
Feels like an indie cad era is upon us. Plasticity, mart3d, antimony ..
>A CAD application, especially one with a custom CAD kernel, is a huge project.
What I've always found amusing is that there are actually quite a few geometric modeling kernels and every one of them costs a ton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_modeling_kernel
Re:Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
by hannobraun on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:37AM
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FreeCAD is GUI-based though, not code-first like Fornjot. A better comparison would be CadQuery (https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html) or Cascade Studio (https://zalo.github.io/CascadeStudio/), both of which are code-first and based on the same CAD kernel as FreeCAD.