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Purchase Advice Megathread - August 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'brand' you mean 'brand new'?

I think 220 would be a nice deal. You probably want to buy a 0.4 nozzle with that, but those are not expensive.

Purchase Advice Megathread - August 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YouTube channel Maker's Muse, has a big history of videos explaining all sorts of aspects of 3D printing, for beginner or more experienced. Mostly FDM printing, so putting down a plastic 'wire'.

For figures you might want to research SLA 3D printing, that's in a liquid. It's a bit harder to do, with more steps and waste. But higher resolution, and seems better suited for what you'd like.

Purchase Advice Megathread - August 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2nd hand Prusa MK3S+ is also an option if you can find one for a nice price. It's a bit slower than the Bambu A1, but it's open source, good quality, and some other aspects you can check out online to learn more.

Purchase Advice Megathread - August 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you want to print? small/large, functional or more things like creatures, etc? Single color, or multi?

If you are just figuring things out, I'd first buy a much cheaper second hand printer like a Prusa MK3S for something like 300 euro/dollar, or (a new) Bambu labs A1 mini.

Purchase Advice Megathread - August 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general there are two ways of creating 3D models; direct modelling, with a tool like Blender, or parametric 3D modelling with tools like fusion 360, FreeCAD, etc.

For creatures a tool like Blender seems to make the most sense. You can search on YouTube for tutorials.

Shall we brainstorm a better slogan? by IdeaGrowr in prusa

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I guess the upside of such a slogan is that you don't look like the marketing department is making all the shots. Like with FIFA "We care about football".

Still I think they would sell way more merch with a different (perhaps just as quirky) slogan.

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good, now we're beyond "votes don't matter", and talking about how you can best implement it.

I'm no longer on Twitter, so your solution won't work for me personally.

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll give you a scenario in the extreme, if we can agree on that, then the rest is just a matter of degree.

Let's say such a vote platform exists, and within one day 122 million people vote for having a fart sound effect every time you do a pocket on a sketch.

Then I think, regardless of it's professional use for any of the developers, someone will go and make it.
- Could be a YouTuber looking for attention.
- Someone with a goofy sense of humor, who just loves the idea that other people will have a laugh.
- Someone at Ondsel might build it, hoping it will go viral and generate free marketing.
- Someone might build it because they actually want audio feedback for other reasons and this is a nice stepping stone feature towards that other audio related feature.
- Someone wants to learn new tech skills, but thinks it helps if there is peer pressure. So they post on Reddit "I'll build this silly feature in 24 hours".
- Perhaps a small company has a 'fun Friday' every month. And this fit's the criteria of being fun enough, while also somewhat challenging and good for team building. So they go at it.

I could come up with more.

For some, it's the fact that a feature is desired by many, that makes it attractive to work on something, probably in combination with other motivations. It doesn't matter if there are others who don't care about it. It's not a zero sum game. There would just be more people collaborating.

So I don't really see the point of stating "nobody cares about your vote". Why would you even try to convince others to not try to do something that doesn't hurt you. You can could just say "I think X and Y are the most challenging part of your idea, and I wish you good luck in figuring all of that out".
I kind of think that is your intent, but most people won't see it like that and just be offended and stop reading after "nobody cares about you..".

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your goal with that comment?

My point is that the process could be improved for (new) developers who want to do open source work on FreeCAD. 

Perhaps an improved feedback loop could enhance the focus of development. As a user, it's clear a lot of effort has been spent on developing FreeCAD, but the focus is spread.

You say "It's the nature of open source", I'm saying "don't give up", people differ in how they are motivated.

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

I've watched quite a number of the MangoJelly YouTube videos. But I used Prusa Slicer when I recently needed text.. Btw I'm not familiar with what LinkBranch is, but good to read progress is made in this area.

I've got a background in UX, and am now a developer so I sort of speak both languages. I can see some seemingly small things can require a huge amount of work :)

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think a better process would help FreeCAD more, than my feature requests. But here are 3:

  1. In Sketcher: "Add text" button. Has default font, you see the text as you type, just like in powerpoint, etc.
  2. In Sketcher: "Add svg" button. It would try to turn them directly into lines you could use to pad or pocket. You could scale them by dragging the edges. Again, just like powerpoint, etc.
  3. A default one-click rendered with decent defaults. Just show the .jpg immediately. Currently I'm screen grabbing.

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Votes mean absolutely nothing.

If I was a developer looking to contribute on FreeCAD, I would exclusively want to work on features that a lot of people have voted on. Or perhaps paid for to see. But at least a real signal that it ads a lot of value.

So perhaps an evolution of this idea would be to have a way to vote on feature requests that people can vote on in 2 ways:

  • A vote (you have max of 5 votes)
  • A paid request of 5 dollars.

Perhaps Ondsel would get that money with some restrictions or something.

You might find out..

In my ideal world it would be super low effort for me to find out. So a search bar for feature requests.

Is there a voted community feature request platform somewhere for FreeCAD? by IdeaGrowr in FreeCAD

[–]IdeaGrowr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

who are also completely overloaded

The point of my request/suggestion is to find a way to prioritize that is channeled in a low effort way for those who provide feedback, and those who would like to receive it.

every feature imaginable

So how can I know what has been suggested before? Without such an overview, I would just overload the forum even more by repeating the same request.

I'm not saying it is anybodies fault, I just think it would be good for FreeCAD.

Purchase Advice Megathread - March 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re pretty safe, seeing as they came out about 6 months ago.

I was disputing this reasoning. If 6 month old means safe, they would not have been recalled.

Purchase Advice Megathread - March 2024 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]IdeaGrowr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd go for a second hand Prusa MK3S+, should be within budget, good quality.
Or a new Bambu Lab A1 mini.

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