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by fsloth 6mo ago
Do note the images will be sterilized and safe. "Hey give me a comic of how to create a rocket engine i can build at home" Unlimited creativity will be shackled by safety. Still pretty amazing.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Really nice building and space. The article summarizes the functional parts so well. What is very hard to communicate is the feeling of space, especially in the top floor with the books. It's sort of unique, and recommend a visit anyon
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by fsloth 6mo ago
> I'm not convinced that replacing one proprietary OS with another is the solution. Consumer don't care if the OS is proprietary, as long as it works and there is a responsible party they can trust to serve them the offering.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
This is super interesting! Thanks for sharing. I’m wondering myself how to put up a site with usual product stuff, blog and manual. The blog is running already on hugo on full llm automation but I had though it would not work for documentat
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by fsloth 6mo ago
https://www.adashape.com/ - a humanistic CAD for 3D printing. Early but has profile editor, extrusions, booleans, and imports STL, STEP, SVG and bunch of visual mesh formats.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Yes - supporting full manufacturing intelligence is part of the larger vision (in practice quite far off). I don't think there is need to unseat anyone. 3D modeling market is expanding and the intent is to serve people for who are not
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Yeah, a typed tree structure is definitely what we want here. I guess you mean https://github.com/oxc-project ? Are there benefits compared to using, say, protobuf?
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Export of the parametric model would fit well with the user respecting philosophy underpinning the whole project. While https://xkcd.com/927/ is something to be avoided there really isn’t an existing format I would be
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Thanks for the input testing! I agree supporting ”pointy” input modalities - pens and touchscreens is valuable. I don’t think there will an android port in the near future but appreciate the sentiment.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Ah, ok, so do I understand correctly you would sort of like a visual preprocessor for programmatic model data? And specifically ”whatever xml”, not, say STEP, or , openscad code, python code (via using cadquery) or anything like that? Do yo
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by fsloth 6mo ago
I've been using as low end testing machine my Thinkpad T14 Gen2 i5. I think you have the same iGPU (Iris XE) but the resolution in the Thinkpad is 1920x1080 while I think you have 2880 x 1800 screen (guessing, please verify :) ) . If y
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Theoretically, yes, but in practice a structured XML description of a parametric model is not useful in the general case without standardized format. STEP XML would be probably the closest here. To be realistic, I might wrap a CLI to AdaSha
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Nice references! The output resolution as such can be made "arbitrarily" precise if the model geometry is authored within AdaShape. So the facets in your image would not result from the limitation of the generated mesh ( https:&#x
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Thanks! I will definitely keep plugging at this :) (Nothing against Mac as such, let's see if I will have bandwidth for a port at some point).
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by fsloth 6mo ago
This is really good feedback. The data model supports solving dependencies like this on the data level. TBH I don't know at the moment how to make something like this accessible but will definitely keep it in mind.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Much appreciate the feedback! > As a person who has crashed and burned with every. single. traditional 3D CAD tool I hear you, there are reasons for depth and complexity but not every program needs to be like that. >if this is a good
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Thank you! The CAD kernel is written by me apart from the boolean solver for the meshes which is the superb https://github.com/elalish/manifold To explain a bit more as "do your own kernel" is usually conside
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Agree! Sketching 2D shapes is a very natural way to start thinking about shapes. That's why there is a sketch + extrude. Here are few examples - 42 seconds to a desk organizer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX6g5slTdeE
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by fsloth 6mo ago
I’ve had good, alternative experience with my sideproject (adashape.com) where most of the codebase is now written by Claude / Codex. The codebase itself is architected and documented to be LLM friendly and claude.md gives very strong
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by fsloth 6mo ago
"WPF had made a bet on then-advanced graphics hardware for reasonable performance, and that was bad for these users. " OTOH WPF is today surprisingly strong GUI platform if you just want to get your Windows GUI out there. It runs
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by fsloth 6mo ago
It’s also a damn good book! More like Catch-22 than a cheap ”spill the tea” ride.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Thank you so much!
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Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11(adashape.com)
32 points by fsloth 6mo ago|31 comments
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Longest trip since 1972. 54 years. I hope we as humanity never stop again. Good luck!
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by fsloth 6mo ago
A professional GUI requires quite a lot. A Unity expert can correct me, but IIRC (possibly wrongly) at least the following limitations apply: For example Unity does not have accessibility features (screen readers etc) nor I don’t think it’s
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Privately no. Professionally yes.
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by fsloth 6mo ago
Yeah, this is the difference. 2000's tech bubble was caused among other things over-investment to infrastructure and technology that had no users yet. Totally different setup. Does not mean AI boom will not turn to bust, but weak analo
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by fsloth 6mo ago
I'm paying $20 for Codex and $90 for the Claude Max plan. They are a "pry from my cold dead fingers" product for me. IMO if someone tried this tech last time 6 months ago, or their only exposure is eg. via MS copilot, they do
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by fsloth 7mo ago
"I've always been surprised that Microsoft didn't do a full operating system refactor and provide a compatibility layer for running old binaries" Just keeping a legacy system in working order is different skillset than w
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Sure but different target market. CRUD apps are non-trivial. If Unity were to ship platform native replacement for WPF equivalent (hell or even winforms) it would become a really enticing app development platform.

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