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FreeCAD is a traditional CAD tool based on sketches, pads, and pockets. CAD designers I’ve spoken with who use that style tool think out their designs outside t
by mch82 6y ago
FreeCAD is a traditional CAD tool based on sketches, pads, and pockets. CAD designers I’ve spoken with who use that style tool think out their designs outside the CAD tool. They know how to translate concepts into the parametric CAD language.
MagicaVoxel — https://ephtracy.github.io/ https://ephtracy.github.io/ — will work with your 3D printer & is closer to building sandcastles. It’s a simpler way to get started.
Once you go back to FreeCAD, open the Python console. You’ll see the code that goes with each step in the GUI!
- dekhn 6y agoThe sketches/pads/pockets are just one of the workbenches in FreeCAD (Sketch/Part Design). There is also Part, which is CSG on geometric primitive. And a bunch of others that almost nobody uses, like Ship Design.
- themodelplumber 6y agoMagicaVoxel looks pretty neat, thanks. According to an article I found from 2018, it can also be used via Wine in Linux. Fingers crossed. https://medium.com/tech-notes-and-geek-stuff/install-magicavoxel-win-64-on-linux-d90236fdf927 https://medium.com/tech-notes-and-geek-stuff/install-magicav...
- RobertKerans 6y agoInstalled it multiple times on multiple machines over the last few years and it"s always worked absolutely perfectly via Wine (and I'm always surprised every time I fire it up and everything works, not sure why!)