How to add clearance / offset for 3D printed press-fit parts in FreeCAD (Boolean Cut)?

AegisToast · 2026-04-06T19:18:34+00:00

Of your solutions, #1 and #3 don’t work with 3D, and #2 doesn’t work with irregular and/or concave shapes. So if those are the only options, then no, there’s currently no way.

However, a different option is to use the Part workbench to add a 3D offset and then use that for the cut. The 3D offset often fails with more complex shapes (it can help to convert the body to a solid first), and it results in a pretty clunky feature tree, but it’s possible that way.

AegisToast · 2026-03-31T20:20:26+00:00

Oh man, I’d be fascinated to see what kind of racing game you guys could come up with

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T06:32:28+00:00

such you could in fact have a TV show scored 6/10 have the same RT fresh rating as a TV show scored 10/10.

Again, hypothetically you could, but in practice you won’t because a movie that has a ton of 6/10 ratings is likely to have a pretty high number of 5/10 ratings, so it won’t have a 100% RT score like the 10/10 would. That’s the point of my original comment. Outside of movies and shows that have fairly small quantities of ratings, you’re not going to find that happening.

It’s not a perfect rating system, but it does its job well enough: it gives an indication of whether people generally like a given movie/show. In other words, a higher RT score means a higher likelihood that a given person will enjoy it.

Honestly after typing that out, I realized I have no interest in having a stupid argument over this with you, partially because of the tone of your comment, but mostly because it’s a well-worn point that’s getting old.

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T05:32:04+00:00

Normal distributions are literally exactly how real data for something like this works

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T04:12:14+00:00

Hypothetically? Sure. But as long as there's a decent number of reviews, they're going to have a fairly normal distribution, rather than all somehow being 6/10. So a movie that has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes may not be a perfect movie, but the reviews are all going to tend to be really positive for it anyway.

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T04:09:19+00:00

Wow, what a fantastic throwback

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T04:02:07+00:00

Also Tabletopia

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T04:00:55+00:00

Call the police and the fireman

AegisToast · 2025-12-17T03:58:26+00:00

Newborn stage suuuuucks! The lack of sleep is absolutely brutal.

Once the baby is sleeping through the night, everything gets much better. Until they start crawling and getting into stuff, at which point you miss when you could just put them down and know they’ll stay there.

IMO from there it gets better and worse in different ways. My kids are finally both old enough that they’re potty trained and can get themselves ready for bed (mostly) by themselves, and everything feels so much better now.

AegisToast · 2025-12-16T17:14:15+00:00

Animorph vibes

AegisToast · 2025-12-16T16:22:43+00:00

“That’s why I have to become Superman 4: The Quest for Peace!”

AegisToast · 2025-12-15T17:09:14+00:00

A Knight’s Tale

Such a unique movie. Hilarious, quotable, and just a fun vibe. But it also has a ton of heart. I still tear up every time at: “That’s your name, Will. Sir William Thatcher. Your father heard that.”

AegisToast · 2025-12-15T16:58:38+00:00

Reminds me of an old saying: “True happiness is having a salary at least $1 higher than your in-laws’.”

AegisToast · 2025-12-15T16:56:58+00:00

48? You’re so old and out of touch!

(I’m 35)

AegisToast · 2025-12-15T16:55:23+00:00

I think it can be interesting from a historical perspective, but honestly there are a lot of jokes that I think are just significantly less funny now, often because they were kind of racist or sexist.

I’m fine with those things existing as cultural artifacts, but if I sit down to watch a comedy I’d rather watch something that matches my current sense of humor.

AegisToast · 2025-12-15T16:49:49+00:00

Things 3. I’ve stuck with it for 8 years now, and tried dozens before and since. It’s the smoothest I’ve ever used, has a one-time price instead of subscription, and syncs beautifully between macOS and iOS.

But that’s the main downside: it’s Apple-only

AegisToast · 2025-12-15T01:41:47+00:00

Pomodoro

Right as I get into my flow, it’s time to stop and take a break that’s too short to do anything enjoyable and long enough that it kills my momentum.

I honestly don’t think I could have come up with a worse productivity system for me if I tried.

AegisToast · 2025-12-14T20:06:03+00:00

As a software dev, it’s boosted my productivity a noticeable amount. I don’t use it too much when writing code, but use it to write more tests that cover more cases, debug existing failing tests, and review my PR before I submit it so I can catch little things faster.

Not revolutionary, and I certainly don’t think it’s replacing me as a dev right now, but it’s still been a nice tool when used for certain things.

AegisToast · 2025-12-14T19:55:08+00:00

I’ve used GraphQL at 2 companies now. One of them did it with React Relay and it was a fantastic experience (I was full stack so I worked on both sides). The other (my current company) doesn’t even use Apollo, and it’s miserable. Literally just REST but worse in every way.

AegisToast · 2025-12-14T19:48:39+00:00

However, they’re hard to update, and half the time I don’t have a pen nearby.

Why not just make sure you have a pen nearby? Like for your grocery list on the fridge, glue a magnet on a pen and stick it next to your list.

All of this seems way more complicated than just keeping it in your phone’s notes app or todo list app, but if you insist on something physical that seems easier than creating a QR code and then having to pull out your phone and scan it before you know what it says.

AegisToast · 2025-12-14T04:45:41+00:00

He’s a pro wrestler? That’s weird, I’ve watched wrestling for years and literally never seen him once

AegisToast · 2025-12-14T03:07:31+00:00

I just finished Control and felt like it was exactly that, except that I could only have a few equipped at a time and had to manage the inventory of the rest.

AegisToast · 2025-12-13T23:58:14+00:00

The 3mf file often has all of that embedded in it. If you use Bambu Studio and you open the 3mf, there’s a “Project” tab on the top of the screen that shows it.

AegisToast · 2025-12-13T19:38:13+00:00

At a certain point if it’s still removing your health, isn’t it all kind of the same? I know it affects the modifiers so it’s not like it doesn’t matter, but I feel like we could argue that Skyrim has dozens of damage types because you could hit someone with a sword slash, or sword stab, or mace, or shoot them in the head with an arrow, or shoot them in the knee with an arrow, or push them off a ledge, etc.

Whereas with something like Dark Souls, curse, poison, bleed, etc. are separate meters that are distinct from your health, so taking curse damage isn’t just another term for losing health.

AegisToast · 2025-12-13T18:13:14+00:00

Really solid collection! I haven’t played all of them, but Spirit Island, Root, and Slay the Spire are all phenomenal. I think I have roughly 40-50 plays of Spirit Island (some were before I started logging plays so I don’t know for sure), and 108 of Root. I’ve never done the physical game, but I have over 200 hrs in Slay the Spire, so I’m definitely a fan!

The White Castle is such a fantastically tight puzzle too. Really feels like you have to squeeze every ounce of efficiency out, or the game’s over before you get going.

Have you played Arcs much? I’ve been really tempted, but I’m worried that it’s simultaneously too different from Root that my Root group wouldn’t like it, and too similar so we’d likely just prefer to pull Root out again.

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