ScottE

@ScottE@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I fix this?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that bad, glue and screw. Remove the inner board from the drawer front and reattach it to the drawer first. You might have to clean up the MDF a bit. Use filler if you have to, maybe, but don’t use nails. Then reattach the drawer front - again with screws. It might not look perfect, but it’ll probably look fine when the drawer is closed. Consider wood block fillets at the interior corners (sacrificing a bit of space).

  Alternatively you could rebuild the drawer frame, using the same drawer front so it matches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Relative Humidity do you keep for your PLA and how do you achieve that.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just put it in my dryer at 40C for a few hours with little regard to a target humidity. I also live in a dry climate where the ambient humidity is low, so maybe it’s not enough in wetter climates, but this works for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found the same thing with regard to workflow - I find it really weird when people say it’s nothing like any other CAD programs, because it really is. You start with sketches and build up from there. Yes, the spreadsheet feature is amazing! I couldn’t believe SolidWorks forces you to buy Excel to do the same thing, which is crazy. The spreadsheet integration in FreeCAD is great - with the macro that handles the reference labels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not a single thing you can’t do in FreeCAD that you can do in other CAD programs - but you do have to understand how it works and it’s limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally realised how freecad wants me to use it and found it much nicer to work with after that

  Exactly this - once people invest the time to understand the FreeCAD flow, and get over it, they’ll find it’s an amazing and extremely productive tool.

  I tried out SolidWorks and it’s a complete mess. You can’t just download and install it, it runs a bunch of weird background programs on the computer, and interacting with the multiple web sites is a nightmare. I’ve been waiting well over a month for them to refund under the promised 30 day guarantee. I’d never, ever do anything with that awful company again.

  I’m really looking forward to see how Ondsel does. I’ve been using it for the last week or two, as it’s integrated 0.22 features, and I think it could be a really good thing for the FreeCAD community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strongly disagree. There’s nothing I can do in any of the commercial CAD programs that I can’t do in FreeCAD. Most people just don’t want to invest the time to learn it - and instead blame the tool. Yes, there’s a learning curve and it requires understanding the tool’s limitations, but if it wasn’t for FreeCAD we’d have nothing in the free, open source space for CAD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One month ago, I didn't really know what 3D printing was. Yesterday, I designed in FreeCAD my first model and printed it. What an amazing experience.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blender, even with the CAD plug-in, does not have the dimensional precision required for real engineering modeling. The Blender UI is also even clunkier than FreeCAD in many ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was able to completely migrate from Fusion 360 To FreeCAD⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found MangoJellys YouTube videos to be fantastic whenever I get stuck in FreeCAD. Worth following for random things that’s over learned from his videos as well, such as some of the tutorials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was able to completely migrate from Fusion 360 To FreeCAD⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same thing over the past 6 or so months ago. There’s nothing I could do in Fusion360 that I couldn’t do in FreeCAD. People love to complain about FreeCAD, and it does have a steep learning curve, but once you learn to design in the way FreeCAD wants you to, it goes quite smoothly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CAD Sketcher improves Blender a bit, but it’s still not good enough to turn Blender into a dimensionally accurate CAD, and I found the UI to be fairly clunky and if anything even less intuitive than FreeCAD, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience in trying Blender for 3d printed part design was short lived because it’s not really built for doing accurate and precise modeling, where FreeCAD is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this - FreeCAD is great, but you have to learn to do things its way if you want stable designs. While there is a learning curve, it’s really no worse than Fusion360 was in figuring out how to achieve my design goals. There are fantastic YouTube channels out there, like MangoJelly when you do get stuck. I converted all my older designs from Fusion360 to FreeCAD, and everything since is in FreeCAD, and I haven’t looked back. I think many people are just afraid to admit they are daunted by FreeCAD, and rather than work to understand it, they just complain and say it’s bad, without ever actually putting any effort into learning the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fusion360 free Startup option is going away!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. FreeCAD can do those things just fine. In fact, I have been able to do every single thing in FreeCAD that I used to do in Fusion360. There is a learning curve, but FreeCAD is extremely capable.