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Re:Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD ap... by phkahler on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:41PM (#44239941)
For CAD you can run Solvespace on a chromebook. I'm not sure I want to promote it for use below high school, as the geometry failures and their workarounds are probably too icky for younger users. I want more polish for kids.
Re:Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD ap... by rcarmo on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:22PM (#44240411)
Solvespace is hardly polished enough for general use, though. I can use it, but I constantly struggle against the way it handles sketches.
Re:Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD ap... by regularfry on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @04:40AM (#44245486)
I think a set of problems where you intentionally create failures and then work through solving them would be quite interesting for anyone learning geometry, beyond a certain point. Understanding exactly why the failures are failures, what about the geometry or the computation makes them fail, would help build an intuition for geometry and topology itself.