![]() new sections system for easy creation of 2D plans.It’s great introduction into the new workflow and new features written by the developer himself. How about that?įor an overview of changes in the Arch workbench I suggest you to have a go at Yorik van Havre’s “FreeCAD Arch module how-to”. I’d like to provide substitutes in FreeCAD that would create the appropriate base geometry.Īnother similar thing is the use of minkowski sums to fillet shapes in OpenSCAD, as this operation is not available in our geometry kernel.Īll in all, FreeCAD is becoming a kind of WYSIWYG editor for OpenSCAD. The libraries in OpenSCAD produce mesh (polygonal) data which is not appropriate for the import module. One of the mayor drawbacks i see, is with the use of modules. Sebastian has some plans for further development of the workbench: ![]() When you’re done, you can export the project as either SCAD or CSG file, and it will open just fine in OpenSCAD:Įxporting to SCAD could be skipped though, because you can export to STEP from FreeCAD directly. You can also generate new objects from your own code or from presets, apply boolean operations, extrude and revolve, and then analyze geometry for errors. ![]() Here’s a rather familiar example from the OpenSCAD’s examples folder: For that you only need to point FreeCAD to the OpenSCAD binary once. The release notes are incomplete here, so let’s fix that.įirst of all, you can open existing OpenSCAD files, both SCAD and CSG. The new version of FreeCAD features an experimental OpenSCAD workbench contributed by Sebastian Hoogen. In the makers community OpenSCAD is a rather common tool to produce models of 3D-printable objects. Instead of duplicating the efforts let’s focus on two important aspects of the release and talk about its future. The team did a good job at documenting changes in the official release notes. Plus the new snapping system, available in Draft and Arch workbenches, is just awesome. Chamfer and fillet tools were improved too. There’s a ton of new production-critical features like loft, sweep, offset and thickness tools. The newly released v0.13 includes massive improvements in almost every workbench. The FreeCAD team continues getting rid of the myth that there can be no usable open source CAD software.
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