I’m currently getting by with a mixture of Design Spark Mechanical, FreeCAD, and OpenSCAD for prototyping/editing files, I’d love to find a good alternative that isn’t from a predatory company like Autodesk

  • rasterweb@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I recommend OpenSCAD for people like me. It’s parametric, open source, text based, code based, no cloud, no subscription, no corporate bullshit. I’ve got thousands of .scad files, some over 10 years old, and I can open them all.

    • Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve used OpenSCAD for a fair number of things. The issue I have with it is importing airfoils is… not easy. but it being scripted is nice- the files are small, it runs light, and you can program a lot of if-thens to abort compiling if the parameters go too far out of whack.

      I want to learn freecad again now that they’re adding simulation to it.