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@digikey surface modeled this mouse in build123d while roughly following the FreeCAD tutorial youtube.com/watch?v=HDGdeL… #FreeCADCurves thanks @ShawnHymel !

@soft_servo Yeah I found it surprisingly sparse as well, but I had overall good experience with tinyik. I am a novice with robotics though so I am not sure how limited it is. I might fork tinyik to enhance it further.

@Jern123d I was looking for something like this! Surprised there's no good native implementation of IK or moveit2 in python

Inverse kinematics and path planning done! Codex basically one shotted this again. It's using ros2/moveit2 which does a lot of the heavy lifting and should generalize well to other embodiments. Will push to text-to-cad soon. Next step IRL assembly and testing!

@sean_snd You can see some decent complexity examples in our docs build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tttt… also there is some assembly stuff there too but not sure what you are after

@Jern123d what's the most complex thing you've built with build123d? Would love to see what is possible.

@yacineMTB Let's race youtube.com/watch?v=Yc6jPy…

I am getting really fast at cad

Here's my system prompt for use of build123d with LLMs. Greatly improves production of idiomatic build123d code! gist.github.com/jdegenstein/7d…

@adam_chal should probably pin your github actions to a hash BTW #impostor-commit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.zizmor.sh/audits/#impost…

yet another GitHub outage?

@Michc0de Let me introduce you to wabbitemu

you should have to post proof of ownership of a casio fx991ex and at least one other dedicated calculator before discussing engineering on this website

@techMellouk @emm0sh They are using smithy.new here is a header from a STEP file exported from that website. They are running on latest OCCT as the kernel but beyond that I am not sure.

@Jern123d @emm0sh What is your estimation of this pipeline : )?

text to CAD was solved by *checks notes* the sheet metal company still in beta so be gentle but it is working surprisingly well so far for simple parts

@techMellouk @emm0sh Almost certainly nope -- just about any STEP file generated involving SCAD will be a tessellated nightmare

@emm0sh Interesting. Prompt -> LLM -> Scad code -> STEP, is this the pipeline?

@coelacanthstory No worries, I understand how difficult it can be to set up build123d. This is probably not for you but I also maintain build123d-portable to try and make install easier for most users. github.com/jdegenstein/bu…

@Jern123d also thanks for the link to the flake, i actually hadn't heard of it...

ah... i'll make a new diary, i think...

@fangpenlin This article is great, didn't get nearly the attention it deserves!

No, LLMs are not going to replace software engineers. Here's why. I’ve dedicated my life to programming for more than two decades. Yes, keystroke by keystroke before LLMs, crazy, huh? 🤣 Today, I’d like to share my theory on why LLMs cannot replace software engineers.

@coelacanthstory Fair points, this is a result of baggage from our CAD kernel which has graphical components included in addition to the topological stuff. There are a few example nix flakes on github including github.com/niteria/nix-bu… Next rel of build123d will drop VTK, so that may help too.

for example despite being a python library that is basically a compiler it links against libx11 and libgl... something something professional accountability military tribunal punitive justice etc and so on. i'll probably just run it in a debian container

@emm0sh We were just talking about this yesterday. Users of build123d EXPECT they can put their designs into CI and export, test, release, etc automatically. Other proprietary software: "but how many license seats do you have open" 🤮.

to illustrate why the world is held back by engineering software (CAD, etc.): what would the world look like today if python were paywalled like matlab is, and there were no alternatives? apply that to everything we do and see the issue

@yacineMTB @emm0sh ✅

@emm0sh just make your own cad software

@KowalczykRich @mferraro89 build123d + OCP CAD Viewer has some hybrid features. I am biased but the API of build123d scales a lot better with design complexity than CQ does. Here's a screenshot showing selecting stuff in GUI and using it in code. Note that it is (currently) brittle without TNP mitigation.

@mferraro89 Decent APIs? Perhaps. But true modern APIs designed as first class citizens? I will be excited if that is true. I’ll look at zoo and build123D. But I don’t want pure code-CAD. I’ve been doing cadquery based design, and it is even more painful than all the mouse clicking.

Made a CAD program. Anyone wanna use it? DM me!

@mferraro89 Looks nice, I'll stick with open source though.

@ChuckHellebuyck Check his community posts on YT. In short he retired from YT youtube.com/post/UgkxVrlMW…

Anybody heard from Chris Riley? I know he stopped trying to beat the YouTube algorithm but now I can’t find him on X.

@fangpenlin Love it, need to post my recreation of what they showed

Many of you are starting your #FreeCAD journey with the 1.1 release! In this video, I cover all the tips I wish I knew when I first started. Check it out if you really want to UNLEASH your FreeCAD experience! youtube.com/watch?v=JjFh8v… @FreeCADNews #FLOSS #CAD #Opensource