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oh cool, is that a new nostr client 😁
It defintely can be.
Would not be uber-complicated to build in the ability to publish FCStd files on Nostr, like nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 does for APK's.
Same for STL's for your 3D-print app idea.
I bet nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z would even find a way to render them in Amethyst lol 😜
someday stlstr will be a thing
#yestl
Shall I send a NIP?
If there is going to be a nip, it would need to be more than just 1063 file events. printable things and models need parts and versions
Yeah, agree. It should be something specific to the file type.
That's one of the features that I'd like to see the most, a printables.com / thingiverse.com site, where designers could upload their models, put licensing details, charge for download or subscription.
The other feature I'd like to see is #gitstr. A code server based on nostr and you could zap an issue, and the developer that solved the issue would get the bounty... And many other features like this could be implemented
The git one already exists
Cool, sorry for my ignorance. It doesn't have zapping issues, though.
I've always eyed FreeCAD but my background is in Solidworks, so it always felt like it'd be a big shift. It's literally just for Solidworks and the slicer for my printer that I boot into my windows partition.
Yeah, It's quite the learning curve (and typical terrible open-source UX barrier).
I come from using quite a bit of Siemens NX, back in my Industrial Design days (10y ago).
Revit or Fusion360 have way better UX, but come with insane price cards + compromises on sovereignty. So FreeCAD it is!
I saw the disparity between the free and paid tools and instead of choosing the free option, I unethically chose the other free option 🏴☠️
I looked for :AirQuoteLeft: free :AirQuoteRight: options too, but there's no way I'm running windows just for that.
So far, besides some weird bugs, I quite like FreeCAD.
Yeah, I'll give it another shot next time I need to print something 🤞
I also came from SolidWorks, which I loved, and had to forcibly use windows in my home machine because of it.
When my company switched to Inventor, which I hate, I thought that I shoud also force myself to learn FreeCAD.
In fact, it is not to learn, just to get used to new ways of doing the same thing.
Now I only use FreeCAD.
To be fair, it's not a hassle free experience, I advise to get use to save it step by step when designing large projects, and have good backups from time to time.
At the moment I'm working on mods for my new 3d printer, and doing everything in FreeCAD.
BTW, I use the realthunder fork, which made things a lot easier, specially when you need to change something up in the features tree... If you are familiar with FreeCAD, you will learn that it suffers from a design challenge due to "topological naming", which was not solved, but improved in realthunder fork.
Looks good 😀