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Oh, sorry, I didn't recognize that this had been posted by a SolveSpace maintainer! Rad. I am glad to hear the project is still moving. I also appreciate the d

by MrDOS 6mo ago

Oh, sorry, I didn't recognize that this had been posted by a SolveSpace maintainer! Rad. I am glad to hear the project is still moving. I also appreciate the difficulty of generalizing chamfers/fillets. There's a reason that basically all FOSS CAD packages have struggled with it.

echelon 6mo ago
> difficulty of generalizing chamfers/fillets. There's a reason that basically all FOSS CAD packages have struggled with it. Could you decompile CAD, run it through an LLM, and call it a day?
- yonatan8070 6mo ago
  Aren't there licesing issues with porting a proprietary implementation into an open-source one that could open up the project to legal issues with the proprietary vendor?
  - WillAdams 6mo ago
    The Plasticity guy seems to be threading that needle.
    - voakbasda 6mo ago
      That might seem to be the case, right up until he gets taken to court over it. Never presume that a thing is legal (or will not later be punished) on the basis that someone is already doing it.
      - echelon 6mo ago
        You can't stop it. This is just progress. All software that isn't delivered over client/server to thin clients is now subject to being trivially cloned.
        voakbasda 6mo ago
        That was never in question, even before AI. It just took more monkeys at typewriters.