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Solvespace has the parametric modeling and mill toolpath generation, but not the rest. FreeCad is closer to, but still far from, feature parity, and has a very

by avhon1 6y ago

Solvespace has the parametric modeling and mill toolpath generation, but not the rest. FreeCad is closer to, but still far from, feature parity, and has a very different UI.

flubert 6y ago
Is Solvespace so mature that it doesn't need updates? I see the last release was in 2016. http://solvespace.com/index.pl http://solvespace.com/index.pl
- zokier 6y ago
  3.0 release seems pretty close https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/552#issuecomment-647863315 https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/552#issuecom... https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/milestone/2 https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/milestone/2
- opencl 6y ago
  There is still plenty of development activity going on (last commit 2 days ago), I'm not sure why there hasn't been a release in so long. https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace
MayeulC 6y ago
Yeah, I haven't given solvespace a try yet, but it looks very promising. Its workflow is just the same as the one I was using most of the time in autodesk Inventor/Fusion/Solidworks: 2D plan, place constraints like parallelism, angles, lengths, collinear, etc. extrude. Repeat, with maybe 3D constraints in some places (coplanar etc). The only thing I'm unsure of is if it supports some functions such as milling, threads, etc. I think interfacing it with OpenSCAD just for this use-case would be huge (define the function in OpenSCAD, apply it in solvespace). I tried hard to use FreeCAD, but maybe not hard enough, as I really had some difficulties using that workflow (IIRC, finding the 2D planner interface was difficult enough, and constraints didn't work as expected). It did have an OpenSCAD interface, though. The last point is something worth mentioning: an opportunity FLOSS has that proprietary software often lacks is interoperability, either with the save formats, or directly with APIs, or calling each other for specific parts. I wish this was leveraged a bit more in this space.
- avhon1 6y ago
  > The only thing I'm unsure of is if it supports some functions such as milling, threads, etc. There's a built-in gcode generator for 3-axis milling. I've never used it, since I don't have a mill or router. Helical features is in a development branch, and is one of the blocking features for the next release. It mostly works, but still has some open bugs.

by avhon1 6y ago

Solvespace has the parametric modeling and mill toolpath generation, but not the rest. FreeCad is closer to, but still far from, feature parity, and has a very different UI.

flubert 6y ago

Is Solvespace so mature that it doesn't need updates? I see the last release was in 2016. http://solvespace.com/index.pl http://solvespace.com/index.pl

zokier 6y ago
3.0 release seems pretty close https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/552#issuecomment-647863315 https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/552#issuecom... https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/milestone/2 https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/milestone/2
opencl 6y ago
There is still plenty of development activity going on (last commit 2 days ago), I'm not sure why there hasn't been a release in so long. https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace

MayeulC 6y ago

Yeah, I haven't given solvespace a try yet, but it looks very promising. Its workflow is just the same as the one I was using most of the time in autodesk Inventor/Fusion/Solidworks: 2D plan, place constraints like parallelism, angles, lengths, collinear, etc. extrude. Repeat, with maybe 3D constraints in some places (coplanar etc). The only thing I'm unsure of is if it supports some functions such as milling, threads, etc. I think interfacing it with OpenSCAD just for this use-case would be huge (define the function in OpenSCAD, apply it in solvespace). I tried hard to use FreeCAD, but maybe not hard enough, as I really had some difficulties using that workflow (IIRC, finding the 2D planner interface was difficult enough, and constraints didn't work as expected). It did have an OpenSCAD interface, though. The last point is something worth mentioning: an opportunity FLOSS has that proprietary software often lacks is interoperability, either with the save formats, or directly with APIs, or calling each other for specific parts. I wish this was leveraged a bit more in this space.

avhon1 6y ago
> The only thing I'm unsure of is if it supports some functions such as milling, threads, etc. There's a built-in gcode generator for 3-axis milling. I've never used it, since I don't have a mill or router. Helical features is in a development branch, and is one of the blocking features for the next release. It mostly works, but still has some open bugs.