Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI — Ars Technica
xAI buys X; deal values social network at $33 billion, $11B less than Musk paid.apple.news
Gestern konnte ich bei der Radtour durch den Wald noch keine Auroras finden. Auch keine Eier an den Wiesenschaumkräutern. Aber eigentlich sollte es aber nun losgehen mit der Flugzeit.
Aurorafalter - Anthocaris cardamines - Orange tip, Mittelbaden, Deutschland, April 2021
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Over 1,000 people are dead after a major earthquake hit Myanmar
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Writer-director Roshan Sethi on his film 'A Nice Indian Boy'
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See that purplish glow?
That's the flower's ultraviolet signal to bees. They can see very well in that spectrum.
#OpenSCAD advantages that I care about:
- Code.
git diffis more meaningful (though it's possible to make it somewhat meaningful for FreeCAD) - Affine transformations (wow I miss this sometimes in FreeCAD!)
- The OpenSCAD Cheet Sheet — if you think in code and CSG, OpenSCAD is remarkably easy to get started with. When I first started with my 3D printer, this got me up and running in minutes.
2/3
Why not both‽
- The #FreeCAD #OpenSCAD workbench lets you mix and match. A friend sent me an OpenSCAD model of a part he wanted me to machine. I used the FreeCAD OpenSCAD workbench to show his model and then used TechDraw to make a drawing to work from.
- FreeCAD's Part workbench is basically a similar CSG workflow to OpenSCAD, with boolean operations on shapes that take parameters, so a preference for working that way, or problems that fit that model, shouldn't drive a decision either way.
- Actually, design-as-code works in both OpenSCAD and FreeCAD. FreeCAD has been a Python library and allowed you to write custom code driving basically anything in it in Python forever; I've written custom macros for multiple purposes. And in recent development builds, OpenSCAD added the ability to use Python as well as its bespoke language.
/fin
I'm really wishing that any of this stuff was a functional clone of Acad 9,10 dos/unix
used that simple command structure, etc
I suppose it's because I was literate enough in it, to write autolisp routines,libraries, etc
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I was never able to make that jump to mouse+'windows' stuff
summagraphics (or cheap clone tablet) kbd,txt display, graphics display, not convinced it ever improved.
3D modelling? Sure, I concede. but x,y,z like the olden times worked pretty well for long time
@cpm Not clones, but you might appreciate some of the other open source CAD packages out there. In case you aren't aware of any of these, here are some actively-developed ones today.
- LibreCAD is at least more like that experience
- BRL-CAD (the brlcad.org web site is broken at this moment, sadly) might interest you
- SolveSpace definitely not like that experience, but more typing-driven than FreeCAD.
There probably aren't very many developers today eager to pour their lives into precisely cloning exactly one particular CAD implementation from a few decades ago.
GitHub - BRL-CAD/brlcad: BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source combinatorial solid modeling system
BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source combinatorial solid modeling system - BRL-CAD/brlcadGitHub
Hehe
thanks kindly.
I get it
I know I'm pining for lost glory days of youth, lol!
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yeah, seriously obsolete stuff, I know
Feeling the need to shake my cane & shout at clouds
(modern CAD does clouds a lot better)
Your post hints at possibilities for me. I have a desire to print replacement drum type chart recorder grids. I have a Temperature Humidity recorder and it would be nice to print calibrated charts. This would allow me to modify the recorder to operate in the T, H and t ranges I want. Also there are many recorders that are obsolete and exact replacement charts are not easy to source. Also they are often only sold in large quantities. Adjusting for language and locale, branding would also be handy.
I was wondering if you could offer an opinion on what free CAD software would be the easiest to use for parametric type drawing with repetitive curves.
I don't use CAD regularly and the bait and switch Dassault did has soured me on closed source completely.
A version for circular charts would also be handy for those who use them.
@kallemp I don't have experience with parametric open source 2d CAD so my advice wouldn't be much use.
I have done work using FreeCAD to lay out text and index marks, but I can't imagine its sketch solver handling thousands of constraints.
Sorry!
McConnell warns of future headline: ‘Russia wins, America loses’
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McConnell warns of future headline: ‘Russia wins, America loses’
The former Senate GOP leader spoke out on Trump and his team Thursday as he received the Star of Ukraine Award from the US-Ukraine Foundation.Burgess Everett (www.semafor.com)
Black cat adoptions are up. An Oscar-winning animated movie may have helped
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Artists descend on Idaho's Treefort Music Festival
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28 March 1926 | A Czech Jewish girl, Edita Spitzová, was born in Kolín.
She was imprisoned in Theresienstadt Ghetto on 8 February 1942 and deported to #Auschwitz on 26 October 1942 together with her mother Anna (b. 1893) & father Eduard (b. 1886). None of them survived.
Week in politics: Top FDA official forced out, auto tariffs take effect
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#ScribesAndMakers Mar 29: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
I got a little distracted and ended up making a thermal camera for myself. It has 3 modes: thermal, video and overlay. I just finished printing a nice retro-looking case for it.
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How a 2015 shipwreck off the Greek coast shows the human cost of the refugee crisis
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Meet Jerry Weinstein, the 81-year-old new coach of the Chicago Cubs
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In which Tesla shamelessly tries to defraud Canada of $40 milllion and gets caught.
nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/c…
Tesla Dealers Claimed They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?
The sales numbers provided by the company-owned shops allowed them to claim tens of millions in government rebates. Now those numbers are under scrutiny.Ian Austen (The New York Times)
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Trump pulled the plug on Voice of America and Radio Liberty, and now a court has ruled the move was illegal, and these organisations have had their money restored.
Wannabe dictators are just that: Wannabe.
Let us just hope that one day he and his bunch will stand trial for their destructive and criminal behavior.
It is ether Trump, or the rule of law. Danger ahead.
The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions
Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weekkottke.org
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A year in the life of a bat - About Bats - Bat Conservation Trust
The Bat Conservation Trust was formed in 1990 as an umbrella organisation for the rapidly growing network of bat groups, providing support, training and advice.Bat Conservation Trust
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
The move is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under RFK Jr.ProPublica (Ars Technica)
Teleskop und Kamera folgen brav der Sonne und ich darf sie nicht stören!
Darum ein Foto über mein Smartphone solange:
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