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3 months

We recently implemented a bill of materials tool for the integrated Assembly workbench (patch by @pierrelouisboy ). It's coming in the next larger release, v2024.3. Here is a quick demo and a write-up to explain our reasoning and outline future work

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@ondsel

3 months

How would you feel about multi-body dynamics with FEM integration in Ondsel ES? :)

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@ondsel

8 months

Chris Hennes has just merged our recent work on the integrated assembly workbench to upstream @FreeCADNews : functional joints and partial support for dragging attached parts. We are working on the next series of improvements and missing features

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5 months

New patch by Pierre-Louis Boyer (Ondsel) merged to upstream @FreeCADNews : continuous trimming in Sketcher. Select the Trim tool, click and hold the mouse button, then drag around to trim any segments you hover, way easier then click-click-clickety-click :)

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@ondsel

5 months

Smart dimensions tool for TechDraw has been merged to upstream @FreeCADNews , patch by @pierrelouisboy (Ondsel)

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@ondsel

11 months

How cool is this? A 13-part assembly built with the new assembly workbench. Still very buggy but it's possible to start 'eating the dogfood' and finding those bugs in real assemblies. We're trying to get this in an appimage so people can play with it soon.

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@ondsel

20 days

Upcoming Ondsel 2024.3 will have the visual setting of limits in Revolute, Cylindrical, and Slider joints in the Assembly workbench

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@ondsel

4 months

Another patch by @pierrelouisboy (Ondsel) merged to upstream @FreeCADNews : TechDraw views now snap to each, dimensions snap to each other, and values on dimensions snap to centers. It's a snapping party, y'all! Already available in Ondsel ES 2024.2 and now coming to FreeCAD 1.0

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@ondsel

6 months

Updated Symmetry tool has been merged to upstream @FreeCADNews . New workflow: select geometry, choose the Symmetry tool, hover any line/point to preview, click to validate. New options: create symmetry constraints, delete original geometry. Patch by Pierre-Louis Boyer (Ondsel)

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@ondsel

6 months

New Ondsel ES feature merged to upstream @FreeCADNews : automatic midpoint constraints in Sketcher. Patch by Pierre-Louis Boyer aka Paddle

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@ondsel

4 months

FreeCAD's topological naming problem is (officially) history | Ondsel

Unstable FreeCAD builds now ship with toponaming fixes. Let’s talk about the amazing work that the community did there.

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@ondsel

8 months

Another improvement we've been shipping in Ondsel ES is the new Translate tool in Sketcher: select geometry, then set distance and angle. Or create a rectangular pattern: set the number of rows and geometry copies in a row. Coming soon to @FreeCADNews as well

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@ondsel

6 months

New Ondsel's patch merged to @FreeCADNews earlier this week: a basic Chamfer tool for Sketcher. The patch also reorganizes the fillet functionality: preserving corners is now an option rather than a standalone tool. Both Fillet and Chamfer now have default shortcuts

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@ondsel

10 months

Another patch by @pierrelouisboy (Ondsel) merged to upstream @FreeCADNews : automatic horizontal/vertical constraints tool in Sketcher

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@ondsel

5 months

New Ondsel ES patch by @pierrelouisboy merged to upstream @FreeCADNews : all Insert View tools in TechDraw have been unified into one. Just select what you want to insert and click the button. Or don't select and click, then an Open File dialog will show up to load SVG or bitmaps

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Ondsel

@ondsel

3 months

In other news, the integrated Assembly workbench now has support for the toponaming solution. The first patch by @pierrelouisboy (Ondsel) has just landed to the upstream project

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@ondsel

6 months

Another Ondsel ES patch by Pierre-Louis Boyer merged to upstream @FreeCADNews : updated colors for geometry points in Sketcher, following a discussion with the upstream design working group

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Ondsel

@ondsel

10 months

Very exciting to see this kind of tests this early in development! Video and CAD project by Carlos, longer demo available on Telegram:

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Ondsel

@ondsel

1 year

@FreeCADNews 's integrated assembly workbench! Don't get too excited. It doesn't actually do anything yet but thanks to qewer33, obelisk, and Paddle, it's starting to look like something. Follow the progress or join the fun at

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@ondsel

11 months

Arc and Circle tools in Sketcher are getting floating input widgets just like some other tools before them, courtesy by Pierre-Louis Boyer (Ondsel). Background music by LenoxBeatMaker (CC-0)

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@ondsel

4 months

One of the best parts of open-source is that anyone can contribute. @freecadnews v1.0 is coming and we want to squash some bugs!

FreeCAD bug hunt has begun! Crush silly bugs. Win awesome swag | Ondsel

It’s time to mobilize the masses and focus on polishing FreeCAD so that it behaves like an actual v1.0 release.

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@ondsel

13 days

We think that Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) should be a first-class citizen and a core feature in @FreeCADNews and Ondsel ES. Here is why

Let’s make GD&T support a core feature | Ondsel

Dimensioning and tolerancing should be a first class citizen in modern 3D CAD software

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Ondsel

@ondsel

5 months

Beans are best spilled with a nice demo :) Yes, there are a few new joint types coming soon

Kwahoo

@kwahoo_archive

5 months

Small gear has 12 teeth, big has 36. How many revolutions of the small gear is needed to return to its starting position? Done in the integrated @FreeCADNews @Ondsel assembly workbench with new "gear" joints. Inspired by @veritasium video (link in the comment)

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@ondsel

5 months

From the tips-and-tricks department: the Selection View panel can help you inspect problematic designs

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Ondsel

@ondsel

5 months

Look at them spin! ⚙️❤️⚙️

OficineRobotica

@OficineRobotica

5 months

I'm really excited about the developments of @FreeCADNews @ondsel assembly workbench. I mean, look at those gears spin 😲

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@ondsel

5 months

The latest release of Ondsel ES is out.

Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish | Ondsel

We’ve just released Ondsel ES 2024.2 with new assembly tools, improved Sketcher and TechDraw workbenches, and built-in Sheet Metal workbench.

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Ondsel

@ondsel

11 months

We're very close to having the new integrated assembly workbench and Ondsel Solver in a testable form. @FreeCADNews keeps getting better.

Ondsel added integrated assembly to the FreeCAD core finally solving the largest missing feature |...

The basics of an integrated assembly workbench in FreeCAD are now functional and will soon be ready for wider testing.

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Ondsel

@ondsel

11 months

We're not saying anything new. We're just going to say it a little louder. Educators and students should be using more FOSS tools like @freecadnews and should know that Autodesk doesn't have your best interests in mind.

Autodesk is teaching students hard life-lessons about vendor lock-in | Ondsel

Proprietary educational licenses set students up to learn some hard lessons about vendor lock-in once they go out on their own.

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Ondsel

@ondsel

8 months

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES

Introducing Ondsel ES, an engineering suite with an open-source heart | Ondsel

We are happy to announce the release of Ondsel Engineering Suite 2024.1, our integrated solution for collaboration on 3D CAD designs.

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@ondsel

2 months

WIP by Billy Janshon: "Designing a custom cooling shroud and direct drive for my Ender 5 Pro 3D printer"

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@ondsel

2 months

Shai Seger of Fasteners WB and SheetMetal WB fame recently started working on shadows and ambient occlusion in @FreeCADNews . Here's an early demo of soft ground shadow, all done with Coin 3D and custom shaders

FreeCad 3d display effects #2: Base plane shadows

Now actually works within FreeCAD!Developer thread here: https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=89424

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Ondsel

@ondsel

10 months

Assembly fun-time! We've built a release of @freecadnews with the new integrated assembly workbench and solver. It's sure to be buggy but you can now test it.

Christmas comes early! A pre-release of the integrated assembly workbench | Ondsel

We have just published our own build of FreeCAD with built-in Ondsel Solver and the new integrated assembly workbench.

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@ondsel

10 months

This very cool project shows what is possible with the Ondsel Solver. This isn't using the new integrated assembly workbench but rather is built with Jose's multi-body dynamics workbench

Kwahoo

@kwahoo_archive

10 months

FreeCAD + +OndselSolver hummingbird kinematics demo by Jose Gabriel Egas Ortuño @FreeCADNews @ondsel

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@ondsel

5 months

The next version of Ondsel ES will have many new features that will also eventually be in @freecadnews . Assembly Explosions is one of those.

Exploded Views: New tool enhances TechDraw and Assembly workbenches | Ondsel

Now that the basic assembly workflow is mostly complete and operational in Ondsel ES, we are beginning to add new tools. One of the features coming in the next release are exploded views.

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@ondsel

2 years

Remember that time Autodesk changed license terms? The @FreeCADNews project sure does.

Autodesk has increased FreeCAD adoption by more than 30% | Ondsel

When Autodesk changed their license for Fusion 360, hobbyists, youtubers, and makers felt betrayed. Now, after more than two years, we can see the effect.

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@ondsel

8 months

If you missed the Ondsel ES 2024.1 announcement earlier this week, here is a quick video recap

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@ondsel

7 months

The Path workbench in FreeCAD is going away. That's good news | Ondsel

Ondsel is committed to improving the user experience and we spend a lot of time listening to our users. We often hear the same suggestions and complaints that we’ve heard before but sometimes we get...

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@ondsel

6 months

Sheetmetal is really important. So is the UI/UX Design Working Group. This is how we improve the user experience in @FreeCADNews

Addons like SheetMetal need to be planned and developed like the rest of FreeCAD | Ondsel

The SheetMetal workbench is really important for users, so let's have a long-term strategy for it.

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@ondsel

10 months

In fact, it's already possible! Just do a rubberband selection and press A or select the toolbar option to automatically apply horizontal/vertical constraints. It was part of the original patch, so it's already available in weekly builds and will be part of v1.0

Xolótl Estudio 3D de Joyería

@xolotl3D

10 months

@ondsel @pierrelouisboy @FreeCADNews It would be excellent if you could make a selection of several lines with a rectangular selection and it would automatically align all of them.

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@ondsel

11 months

This has been a long time coming and it's close to merge. Great new features are slated for @freecadnews in version 1.0

FreeCAD sketcher getting a major upgrade with floating input widgets | Ondsel

We are intorducing on-viewport tool widgets to create fully constrained sketches,as well as tool settings to set various properties and drafting behavior.

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@ondsel

9 months

New playground build is available. Main changes: support for externals objects and body subobjects like LCS and datums, joint placement is now relative to the object (instead of the doc origin). New in prev build: distance joint, count of inserted links

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Ondsel

@ondsel

2 years

We're starting a blog post series (and hopefully a discussion) about the need for a default assembly workbench in @freecadnews

FreeCAD needs a default assembly workbench - Introduction | Ondsel

There are multiple 3rd-party assembly addons for FreeCAD. We are planning to evaluate existing options, and here is our methodology.

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@ondsel

5 months

Textures are coming to the new materials system

DavesRocketShop 🇨🇦

@DavesRocketShop

5 months

Every day I'm texturin... @FreeCADNews @ondsel

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Ondsel

@ondsel

1 year

While this doesn't look like much, it represents an important milestone. The Ondsel Solver and integrated @freecadnews assembly workbench is coming to life. It's beginning to solve!

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Ondsel

@ondsel

1 year

@FreeCADNews is announcing a coming release. Hold your horses. This isn't 1.0 just yet but still good stuff.

Coming Soon: FreeCAD 0.21

"Releasing JAXA's HTV7 cargo vehicle from the ISS" by Astro_Alex is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Last week a group of FreeCAD administrators, maintainers, and developers met to discu…

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Ondsel

@ondsel

1 year

Today we're making the Ondsel Assembly Solver code available under the LGPL! This is still WIP but it's ready for a broader audience of developers. Next step will be a Proof Of Concept with Assembly 3 using the solver.

GitHub - Ondsel-Development/OndselSolver: Assembly Constraints and Multibody Dynamics code

Assembly Constraints and Multibody Dynamics code. Contribute to Ondsel-Development/OndselSolver development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@ondsel

5 months

Integrated assembly workbench used on a larger model — chassis of a 3D-printable race car (Tarmo5) You can find the full model here:

Tarmo 5 assembled in Freecad 0.22dev with built-in Assembly

This is a video showing the assembly of the Tarmor 5, which is a RC car that you can find on the internet.I speed up the process, but it's almost 30 minutes....

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Ondsel

@ondsel

9 months

To make Ondsel and @FreeCADNews great, we need a much better understanding of who's using it and how. We've put together a brief (less than 5 minutes) survey that will help. We'll share key findings but we need YOU to respond. Seriously important!

Survey: do engineers dream of architecture tools? | Ondsel

Operating on just the gut feeling about who FreeCAD users are is not nearly sufficient to make good decisions. Let's do a user survey instead.

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@ondsel

10 months

Nemesis_81 posted a quick test of the integrated assembly workbench in @FreeCADNews . Meanwhile, an update of our playground build is imminent

Ondsel Assy workbench test on freecad

```OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (KDE/plasma)Word size of Ondsel: 64-bitVersion: 0.22.0dev.35335 (Git) AppImageBuild type: ReleaseBranch: flavorHash: 8a...

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@ondsel

8 months

Ondsel ES ships with several new Sketcher tools, including the Dimensions tool for easy constraining and the Rotate tool where the Copies option allows quickly creating polar patterns

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@ondsel

18 days

Look at 'em gears turning!

Kwahoo

@kwahoo_archive

18 days

I began to reassemble my old telescope drive project in @ondsel @FreeCADNews Integrated Assembly. Just for testing/exercise. The old asm was created in Assembly 3 and it was very fragile ("inconsistent constraints"), convoluted (interface) and slow (solver).

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@ondsel

10 months

If you can share your model, please put it up on lens and share a link here. We'd love to take a closer look

Kwahoo

@kwahoo_archive

10 months

Assembly Workbench - kinematic simulation test @FreeCADNews @ondsel

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@ondsel

7 months

We've been working on a better solution for custom data elements for a while. Here is a somewhat technical video by Pieter Hijma. It covers shortcomings of existing solutions and proposes an alternative. Initial patch has already been merged to FreeCAD

Let's revamp the custom data elements system in FreeCAD

We've been working on implementing a better custom data elements (custom properties) system for FreeCAD for some time. This video is a more technical overvie...

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Ondsel

@ondsel

1 year

The seventh, and final, installment of our blog series on the need for an integrated Assembly workbench in @FreeCADNews is finally out. This time: our conclusions and recommendations.

Assembly Workbench: What We Learned and What's Coming Next | Ondsel

Now that the study of assembly workbenches and tools is done, let's discuss key takeaways and propose a way forward for the project.

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@ondsel

4 months

We've just released Ondsel ES 2024.2.1 with bugfixes. Notable changes: restored backwards compatibility with upstream SheetMetal (just open/resave v2024.2 files), various fixes in Sketcher and VarSets, backported fixes for Quick Measure and materials

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@ondsel

3 months

Very cool to see varsets in use! Pro tip: if you upload a model with varsets to Ondsel Lens, anyone (with an account) can tweak your model variables online and download customized FCStd / OBJ / STL (whichever you enable in a share link)

OficineRobotica

@OficineRobotica

3 months

A new tutorial is out using @ondsel / @FreeCADNews and the new VarSet utility that enables faster, more robust parametric design.

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@ondsel

2 years

I lost count of how many people showed up for @FreeCADNews day at @fosdem . At one point there were over fifty in the room with many standing. More than 25 powered through till the end. Thank you everyone. It was great!

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@ondsel

10 months

Ribbon UI is what CAD users seem to generally expect today. Interesting to see how the design review team will respond to this!

FreeCAD (CAD+CAM+FEA)

@FreeCADNews

10 months

Exciting #FreeCAD #UI / #UX progress being made in RibbonUI! Successfully displaying an alternate iconset!! 🤩 However, 'geolta' is running into a technical #SVG scaling line thickness issue. Any SVG folk available to help? #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #CAD

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@ondsel

10 months

New playground build available with assembly updates: added visual indicator to identify grounded parts, line middle and face center of gravity can be JCS for joints now, insert tool has 'Insert as part' option Grab it at CAD project by @KayraHumanoid

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@ondsel

2 years

It's official! Ondsel is now launched. We're an open-core company building around the incredible @FreeCADNews project. We're excited to be working with @OpenCoreVenture . In the coming weeks and months we'll be expanding our team and talking about the exciting plans we have

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@ondsel

2 years

This is great news! Phase 1 of the toponaming resolution project is finished. Incredible work by @JohnDupuyCOMO , @ajinkyapdahale , and many others in the @FreeCADNews developer community. Still a long way to go, but we're making progress!

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@ondsel

9 months

We're proud to have had a hand in many of these features. There's more to come and you can try them in our pre-release build.

MangoJelly Solutions

@jellysmash

9 months

The new version of #FreeCAD currently in dev is looking !!! AWESOME !! The sketcher improvements are putting this up there with the industrial #CAD solutions in my opinion. Take a look 👀 @FreeCADNews #3dprinting #3dmodeling #opensource #FLOSS

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@ondsel

5 months

The new materials system keeps getting better, kudos to @DavesRocketShop !

DavesRocketShop 🇨🇦

@DavesRocketShop

5 months

Texture previes in the @FreeCADNews Materials editor! Still a long way to go before it can be applied to objects but progress

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1 year

Great news from the @freecadnews community. Very close to a full V0.21 release. All we need is testers to make sure everything is working the way it should.

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@ondsel

5 months

Another project being made with Ondsel ES

Ondsel/FreeCAD - Electromotor Housing

#ondsel #freecad #engine #electromotor #electroengine #motor #cad

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@ondsel

1 year

When will people realize that the real advantage of FOSS is countering this abuse of users?

Adam Haile - @[email protected]

@DreadMakerAdam

1 year

Oof... @autodesk Fusion360 is almost twice what the 3 year license was last time I paid. And lately I use it less. Time to learn something new? Ugh... but I have so many projects in there :(

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2 years

A HUGE improvement to the fillet and chamfer dialogs. Selection and Previewing are now far more intuitive. Awesome work by @pierrelouisboy

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@ondsel

3 months

We've just released another bugfix update for the latest stable version of Ondsel ES. Fixes are mostly in Assembly, VarSets, and the Lens addon

Ondsel 2024.2.2 released | Ondsel

We’ve just released Ondsel ES 2024.2.2, bugfix update for the latest stable version of Ondsel Engineering Suite.

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1 month

Ondsel Lens just got better support for STEP files: now you can upload, version, and visualize them, create share links and share privately with other users — just like regular FreeCAD files

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@ondsel

1 year

One of the big goals for the @freecadnews V1.0 release is to improve the initial user experience. Easier said than done.

FreeCAD needs a first-run wizard, but nobody knows what it should do | Ondsel

FreeCAD is commonly criticized for being difficult to get started with. This criticism, while overstated at times, is nevertheless quite often valid.

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7 months

With 200+ addons developed for @FreeCADNews we expected there to be a lot of users who depend on them to get their work done. We just weren't quite sure how many such users we'd find or which addons would be most popular. Thanks to the survey, now we know

Some FreeCAD addon usage reflects core deficiencies | Ondsel

FreeCAD has been designed as an extensible CAE platform from the ground up. There are currently more than 200 addons available through the Addon Manager alone, ranging from large workbenches to...

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11 months

@FreeCADNews is getting serious about improving the user experience.

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1 year

Another huge milestone was passed. We have officially completed phase #2 of the @freecadnews toponaming project. This was a big one! Look for our upcoming blog post next week for a detailed report of where we are.

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1 year

@freecadnews version 0.21 is a great release. The development cycle also saw some big changes in the community.

FreeCAD version 0.21 is a major milestone for the community | Ondsel

Now that the new major release is out, it's time for us to reflect on our experience participating in a FreeCAD development cycle as a business.

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10 months

Autodesk continues to enshittify Fusion 360 with a 27% price increase | Ondsel

Autodesk’s latest announcement of bumping the Fusion 360 price yet again makes people—especially small businesses—cringe, and it’s easy to see why.

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1 year

If you were ever frustrated by contrast issues in @freecadnews , you need to try the new OpenDark preference pack from Obelisk. Not just another dark theme but a brilliant improvement to color contrast everywhere. Fantastic contribution. Available in addon manager.

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7 months

Last month, we ran a survey to better understand who @FreeCADNews users are: what kind of work they do, what frustrates them about the program, what they would be willing to pay for to get fixed, and more. This is part one of our takeaways

The typical user doesn't exist: FreeCAD user survey results (part 1) | Ondsel

Last month, we ran a user survey to better understand who FreeCAD users are: how they use FreeCAD, what they do at work, what major gripes with the software they have, and more. Over the course of...

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10 months

Obelisk spent a lot of time researching color palettes that work for both people with regular vision and for people with various vision deficiences (see e.g. this thread: ). Kudos!

FreeCAD (CAD+CAM+FEA)

@FreeCADNews

10 months

#FreeCAD 'OpenDark' theme has been updated per it's author, obelisk79. "This is an color-impaired accessible aesthetically pleasing theme ... based on the Open-Color Palette that is WCAG/APCA compliant." Grab it via the Addon Manager. #FLOSS #FOSS #CAD

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It's great to see the FPA and FreeCAD project taking steps to make contribution easier and more predictable. THIS is how the @FreeCADNews project can go fast.

FreeCAD Developer’s Handbook

("Magic Book" by Mike Haufe is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.) One of the new initiatives we are undertaking is the creation of a Developer's Handbook. It contains sections about the Roadmap, outlini…

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7 months

Kwahoo always pushing the boundaries :)

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7 months

A new demo: 3 axis arm driven by FreeCAD assembly

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1 year

The new Contextual Constraint feature in @freecadnews surpasses many commercial CAD applications.

Ondsel made constraining sketches faster and easier | Ondsel

One of the hallmark features of FreeCAD is increased cognitive load. Our new Dimension tool replaces mutiple other tools and helps constraining sketches faster.

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8 months

The pace of development on @freecadnews has accelerated. Now we need to make sure it goes in the right direction

FOSS projects like FreeCAD suffer without product owners | Ondsel

FOSS projects often struggle to build and follow a coherent development roadmap that lets contributors add new features while also improving code quality, removing deprecated features, and generally...

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2 years

Another quality-of-life improvement. The new workbench preference dialog lets you manage which workbenches appear in the switcher, re-order them, see the accelerator keys, and more. This removes the redundant dialog from the 'other' customize tool. #babysteps

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1 year

We had some thoughts about how @FreeCADNews development methodology needs to change as the project grows.

FreeCAD’s Approach to Software Development Needs to Change | Ondsel

The volunteer-driven development approach served the FreeCAD community well in the past, but it has become harder and harder to make significant changes.

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@HollandsnieuweS @GregoireSaunier @repkord @FreeCADNews Sorry, but we can't 100% agree :) Guys at FreeCAD did some serious work on toponaming (the backport from LinkStage), TechDraw, FEM, Arch/BIM etc. for the upcoming v1.0 release. _And_ they did some UI/UX improvements including better icons. They deserve nothing but respect

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2 years

The new blog is becoming one of my favorite parts of the @FreeCADNews ecosystem.

FreeCAD News

What's going on at FreeCAD?

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9 months

Seems like many free/open-source CAD/CAM/EDA projects are going to be there: @FreeCADNews , Dune 3D, @kicad_pcb , @LibrePCB . _And_ some interesting open hardware projects like @LibreSpace_Fnd

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Look at the amazing (and excuse the self-promotion ;) ) panel at @FOSDEM 's open hardware and design room!

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8 months

Hot damn, @kwahoo_archive keeps testing the hell out of the new assembly workbench!

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8 months

Two cylinder engine animation with piston acceleration. Done in the latest @ondsel @FreeCADNews release. Inspired by the new @fortninecanada video about 2 cylinder motorcycle engines. Model file Animation and calculation script

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2 years

First ever FreeCAD Day at Fosdem 2023. Standing room only!

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8 months

Our founder and CTO @sliptonic recently sat down for a talk with Open Hardware Manufacturing Podcast hosts @stephen_hawes_ and @Lucianchapar to talk about the future of @FreeCADNews

Ep. 12 - Improving FreeCAD ft. Brad Collette from Ondsel | OHM Podcast

Hardware is hard. Open Hardware is harder. But the juice is worth the squeeze.

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2 years

Continuing our #FreeCAD Assembly series. Next, we look at Assembly 3

Exploring the Assembly 3 workbench | Ondsel

The fourth part in the series where we explore the possibility of creating a default assembly workbench for FreeCAD. This time we are looking at Assembly3.

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5 months

@FreeCADNews was inspired by Catia. We still struggle with some of the same challenges but our solutions are different.

CATIA suffers from the same problems that Ondsel / FreeCAD are solving. And it's expensive | Ondsel

“Once you get past the part design workbench in software], it becomes apparent that [software] is like 10 different software packages integrated into one.” — [r53toucan on Reddit.

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7 months

Diving deeper into what @freecadnews users really value.

Over 75% of FreeCAD users are willing to pay to see it improved | Ondsel

This is the last post in the series where we discuss the takeaways from our recent user research. We already looked at basic demographics data and the use of 3rd-party addons for getting a job done....

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27 days

You can make your own Ondsel ES defaults and revert to them anywhere. Just back them up on Lens and then restore on a new computer. Or you could roll out the same prefs to an entire team when they are members of an organization on Lens

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2 years

Switching units in @FreeCADNews we've heard for a long time. Now much easier! Very pleased that this was one of the first UI related changes that Ondsel made.

Easier Unit System Changes

(The new unit system menu in FreeCAD 0.21dev.) FreeCAD requires a single unit system to be used throughout the entire program, even if multiple files are open. One of the consequences of that desig…

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10 months

So many customers and users we talk to are frustrated.

CAD users want interoperability. Autodesk fails to lead | Ondsel

“I like to have options. I don’t like the idea of entire industries being

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2 months

We've just posted a quick intro to publishing your projects on the Lens cloud service directly from Ondsel ES and exploring them online. Meanwhile, some exciting changes are coming to Lens (hint: STEP 😉)

How to share you first 3D CAD project on Lens | Ondsel

With Ondsel Lens you can publish your 3D CAD designs privately or publicly and you can do it directly from the Ondsel Engineering Suite.

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1 year

We're doing a bonus article in our series and looking at some of the other assembly-like tools: BodyBuilder, Manipulator Workbench, and Part-o-Magic.

Exploring BodyBuilder, Manipulator, and Part-o-magic | Ondsel

Before we summarize our findings, let's look at assembly-like workbenches and addons for FreeCAD that help aligning parts against each other.

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2 years

Fixing the toponaming problem in @freecadnews won't be easy or fast but it will happen.

Don't hold your breath for FreeCAD's topological naming fix | Ondsel

FreeCAD's topological naming problem is legendary. Some claim it's #1 reason holding back widespread adoption of the program. Will FreeCAD ever have a solution?

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1 year

Most of the @freecadnews community is very supportive of what we're doing but some people are skeptical. It bears repeating why we started this company the way we did.

Don’t lose your (open-source) soul: why we founded Ondsel as a public benefit company | Ondsel

The ethos of open-source software frequently finds itself at odds with the profit-driven dynamics of the modern tech landscape.

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