RomanKuzmenko

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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   Hmm. Indeed that makes a lot of sense to use wasm instead. Let’s table the language aside for a moment. What data format would you expect to be spit out by third-party models? Is there anything generic enough to store both b-reps, f-reps, a
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   I wonder myself why would we run third party Python scripts that can do anything, run an infinite loop, download something from Internet or delete files from the home folder, and keep our fingers crossed it calls “show_object” at the end… H
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   Of course! There is more than one concept that has value. And each concept also has a price (or price range as there will always be multiple implementations of each concept, each implementation will deteriorate over time and so on and so fo
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   I reread the sub-thread and I can see how my attention got carried away from the topic. The maintenance of models might be perceived as an add on to a much more scientific-heavy CAD workflows. The value of engineering tools is not going to
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   Users who want to continue paying for the value of having all tools under one roof can continue doing so. From time to time they might not be opposed to the idea of importing a part or two from a public repository. At least for some simulat
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   Thanks for the link. I’ll definitely study that. I’m not sure at the moment whether NopSCADlib has exactly the same ambitions or not. But it certainly deserves to be learned from. PartCAD has OpenSCAD support pretty high up on the todo list
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   Yeah, it did steal some of my time and gave me some gray hair too. However as I mentioned in another comment, PartCAD is not there to replace existing CAD tools. It’s there to extend the definition of computer aided design to include modula
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   That’s why I said other CAD tools can be used for some workflows. For most humans interacting with technology nowadays out there FreeCAD will do. Anyway, even if I’m wrong about FreeCAD, PartCAD doesn’t have much to do with what happens bet
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   by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

   I believe you mentioned two orthogonal features. 1) Import/export from CAD tools. Absolutely. That’s one of the main goals. PartCAD will be the persistence layer for parts I create in FreeCAD. (Whole OpenVMP was designed in FreeCAD.) I
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    by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

    I personally don’t think FreeCAD needs an alternative. It’s good enough for most needs and it’s maturing. But it needs to be used for what it is good for: visual workflows. FreeCAD and all other CAD tools (that might be needed or preferred
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    by RomanKuzmenko 3y ago

    Thanks for the attention to PartCAD and all the contextual information shared in this thread. It was just the initial version released a couple days ago. It doesn’t even match the OpenVMP’s internal “bill of materials” library. For sure it