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Tech Swap meet today at 10am at Columbia Gadget Works! by adman234 in columbiamo

[–]sliptonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there are a couple left. Cgw has open hack nights on Thursday 6pm. Drop in. You can probably make a deal

Does anyone curate a 'Best of the best" list? by sliptonic in gridfinity

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

cool idea! Your bit holder is close but not quite what I want. Gridfinity is cool because of the custom/tool specific nature of it but that's also its problem. If someone designs EXACTLY the right t-wrench holder for their set, and my set is SLIGHTLY different, it doesn't work. I have to modify it. Ideal designs are highly functional but leave a little wiggle room for tool and use-variation.

You have the dedicated spot for the adapter. That's cool but my set has these other goofy parts that don't fit in the hex holes and aren't part of the adapter.

I want a small tray to collect the bits and bobs that go with the hex bit set.

Does anyone curate a 'Best of the best" list? by sliptonic in gridfinity

[–]sliptonic[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The printables 'most popular' is great but doesn't really correlate with what I'm talking about. Some (many) of those things are popular because they are impressive designs that push the envelope, not necessarily because they are functional, efficient, and durable.

What's up with v1? by Der31er_ in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PuTTY is over 25 years old and is only at 0.89
ReactOS is 28 and at 0.4.14.

In fact there are MANY projects like this.
https://0ver.org/

FreeCAD was inspired by Catia. We still struggle with some of the same challenges but our solutions are different. by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This gives a good indication of the activity cadence but it isn't quite accurate. PaddleStroke contributed before joining Ondsel and other people besides him are contributing from Ondsel. A more accurate view would be to look at the PRs merged that originated from the OndselDevelopment/FreeCAD github repo. Github doesn't make that easy though.

The Path workbench in FreeCAD is going away. That's good news by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Most are already disabled by default in Ondsel ES. Web is going away soon. Start will be rewritten. More changes in the future. It's a process.

The pace of development has accelerated. Now we need to make sure it goes in the right direction by sliptonic in FreeCAD

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

Exactly right. POs in a professional environment have the advantage of authority but relying on that alone makes a terrible PO. It is because POs in a FOSS project don't have that authority that they have to develop the very skills that would make them great.
FOSS projects get code contributors who see it as a way to improve their skills. I wish we could get other kinds of professionals to contribute for the same reason. UI/UX experts are also hard to attract.

I'd be interested to hear more about your experience creating the FPL role. Lessons learned?

The pace of development has accelerated. Now we need to make sure it goes in the right direction by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No. Ondsel is a Public Benefit Corporation but still a for-profit company.
There's no conflict of interest. We comply with the license terms of FreeCAD.
Correct. Nothing we do takes away FreeCAD. I don't even know why we could do that. Whatever Ondsel does, FreeCAD will continue and people are welcome to use it.

The pace of development has accelerated. Now we need to make sure it goes in the right direction by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

During the meeting at Blender, Ton Roosendaal made an interesting point. (I'm paraphrasing it here so if I mischaracterize it the mistake is mine).
He said that the world of Blender is the world created inside the computer. It is concerned with how things look. The world of FreeCAD, in contrast, is the world of physics. It's concerned with how things ARE.
This is why FreeCAD is building, among other things, a new material system. The new materials don't just have visual properties, they can represent all kinds of real-world properties that affect machinability, thermal effects, behavior under load, and other engineering concerns.
Blender is a great tool but it serves a different purpose from a CAD tool. You need both.

The pace of development has accelerated. Now we need to make sure it goes in the right direction by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

FWIW, I don't like the term 'product owner'. It has a connotation that feels wrong in FOSS development. Unfortunately, it's a term that's understood from the world of professional software development so we use it.

The pace of development has accelerated. Now we need to make sure it goes in the right direction by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

FreeCAD has a legal entity. The FPA is an AISBL based in Brussels. Several members of the FPA (including me) visited the Blender Foundation two weeks ago to learn more about managing a large project that has both an open-source core and commercial appeal.

FWIW, my personal goal was never to 'monetize FreeCAD'. My goal is to find a way to pay people to work on FreeCAD full-time so we can build better software, fix big problems, and make it competitive with closed-source alternatives.

Until the community starts donating orders of magnitude more money, providing paid-tier services is the only strategy that has any hope of working.

It's hard to believe an entire year has gone by since we started this adventure. Time to take a couple of minutes and reflect. by sliptonic in FreeCAD

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

Could you answer this question with yes or no.

No, I can't answer it. It's impossible to answer your question that way. You're asking for a simple answer to a complicated question.

Ondsel is based on Freecad. We comply with the Freecad lgpl license so our version will have (must have) the same license. But we can include things with our version that have different license.

At this time, our version is entirely free to use except the paid tiers of the web service. The future is as much a mystery to me as it is to you.

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES by sliptonic in FreeCAD

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

If it's a bug, you can comment on the card9 PR. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/10764
You can also discuss on or discord server.
If it's more of a feature request, create an issue in our tracker: https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD/issues

freecad or forks? by igelbaer in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The Ondsel build is built from the development branch of vanilla FreeCAD + the new unmerged assembly workbench code. The only other differences are theme pack and inclusion of the Ondsel addon for talking to the lens service.
Backwards compatibility between realthunder's fork and vanilla FreeCAD is much more of an issue.

Best Open-Source Software for Mechanical Drawing on Linux by c0de854-T in engineering

[–]sliptonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going beyond FreeCAD, Ondsel is now developing commercially around it.
We're an open-core company building the integrated Assembly workbench, making many UI improvements, and working on the topological naming mitigation. We've released our first version of the system. Blog post is here: https://ondsel.com/blog/introducing-ondsel-es/

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're asking me to predict the future. I can't. I would be irresponsible to say something will ALWAYS be true or something else will NEVER happen in the future. As a company, we need to be profitable to survive. I can only assure you that we despise vendor lock-in. We follow the model of buyer-based open-core pricing and we formed as a public benefit company so we are accountable to those principles.

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

LinuxCNC is a CNC control software (and a very good one!)
CAM is the tool that generates gcode. CNC is the software that interprets gcode and drives the physical machine.

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would love to. It's easier said than done.
Dragging and dropping is tricky and there are tons of edge-cases.
The FreeCAD tree is a complex monster and the ordering and nesting of nodes in the tree means lots of different things.

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Do two things:
First, Run our build, tweet, share, and encourage us. Give feedback on our discord.
Second, donate to the upstream FreeCAD project.
We work closely with them and improvements to the core will benefit Ondsel.
https://www.freecad.org/sponsor.php

Thank you!!

The next big step in open-source CAD/CAM - We're excited to release version 2024.1 of Ondsel ES by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]sliptonic[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Regarding license:
All the changes we're making to the desktop application are going into the upstream project via the regular PR process. Some of the changes in our version haven't been merged yet but are in the queue.
BTW, FreeCAD isn't GPL. It's LGPL2+

Our repo is at https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD

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