Realizing #CAD tasks (#Blender) work well as escapism. You can lose yourself in such work, fully immersed in 3D design world, and hours will just fly by without notice.
Eventually I got a trial 3D print started and I've shifted back to a software integration task I've been neglecting. Made some progress there, so it wasn't a total escape today.
Turning my attention to supper now I think, while tending that rough first 3Dprint.
I design a lot of 3d models and share them online with CC non-commercial licenses.
It's really frustrating when folks download my work and sell it on Etsy, and tell me it's open source since they downloaded it for free. And then block me when I try to point out that not how it works.
And Etsy makes it really hard to enforce since they don't really care as long as they get a cut.
Finally got around to printing my frog chess set. I realized last night that I happened to have both blue and green PLA. (printed at 60% to fit a smaller board)
I'm thinking about printing a flip-down MagSafe iPhone charger to mount under the kitchen cupboard. This is kind of the idea. I'm still working out how to route the cord. I'm imagining magnets to hold it in position either flipped down or flipped up, but haven't modeled those either.
I got back to designing the under-cabinet MagSafe iPhone charger today. I got the magnets placed. There are three button magnets in the red inserts. Now I'm thinking about how to route the cable through the yellow block, leaving enough slack for free motion.
Puh, what a ride. #Design of my #BambuLab lid riser with integrated ventilation, LED strip placement and support for the BL LED Controller has been finished. Now I have to print some parts. Then assembling, testing and I’m done. 🤓
@Grootinside@3dprinting I experienced clogging in the past printing PLA (some brands) with door and lid closed. So I keep the door a bit open. With ventilation (I tried it with some test prints) the chamber temp is no more than 38 degree Celsius.
@layered@3dprinting Actually i've just built a noisereducing case around my P1S. Haven''t installed the fans yet. Might be a good idea to get me a thermometer to keep an eye on the actual temperature. Don't really need that much more light. For me it's only to doublecheck from time to time. Maybe the adjustable fans are doing the job already.
Needed a cable organizer for a side table that has a support bar under the top and set back a few millimeters. I modeled part of the table, then designed a cable organizer that would fit the contour. Just snaps into place. No screws, clamps or adhesives. #3dDesign#3dPrinting
I think it's amazing how you can get from nothing to a fully parametric #STL of a toy screwdriver in eight lines of #Python code with #sdfCAD.
If I had tried the same in a graphical #CAD software, it'd probably taken me ages. Also, none of the buttery smooth curves the #sdf - based approach makes so easy.
@chrishuck@mcdanlj@nobodyinperson
This discussion is really about modelling and not design. Computers can Aid our Design by showing us the result, so we can make design decisions as we go along. If you already have an exact design in mind, you just need to model that.
'Interactive' CAD really benefits the design part. Especially for really complex models. Where 'on canvas', live, visual manipulation speeds up decisions, helps learning, and avoids "trial-and-error" loops that cost us time.
It is also useful, as designers tend to be more visual people, and less "IT" thinkers. Needing to see and touch what they are doing.
Script based CAD will suit the more IT/text thinking type of person. Often wanting a "hands-off" approach, as in this case.
I deal with all types of users. And both scripted, and interactive, styles have their places.
FreeCAD is not the best example of interactive CAD though. Tending to remote interaction via the edit panels rather than direct, on-canvas 3D manipulators. But I'm sure that will come in time.
@ianp5a@mcdanlj@nobodyinperson I totally agree that each style has its place because I do use both. I will agree that some commercial CAD software makes editing models a little more direct than FreeCAD, but the functionality is still there. Often, commercial CAD and FreeCAD are exactly the same, and all too often I see on here people claiming that it's not. That's what grinds my gears.