OCCT 8.0 (aka Open Cascade Technology) is out! It's the CAD kernel used by many projects such as @freecad, #CadQuery , #build123d or even @kicad ! It has wrappers for STEP and IGES and can use BRep topology representation. A very important open source tool for the hardware world!

➡️ https://occt3d.com/occt3d-open-source-8-0-is-released

#occt #occt3d #opencascade #cad #FreeCAD #OpenSource

CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models

https://cadquery.github.io/

#HackerNews #CadQuery #open-source #3D #CAD #Python #library #CAD #modeling

I'm having fun watching GLM-4.7 in llama-agent fail (again, again and again) creating a very simple object in CadQuery. There is not even the most simple world-grounded theory of geometry in this model. Python syntax won't help.

I don't believe that constructing a "skill" based on naive world-grounded assumptions would help.
#aiSlop #cadquery #agenticAI

Thanks to @freecad Addon Ecosystem Coordinator PhoneDroid, CadQuery's workbench for #FreeCAD has been updated to meet the latest standards for an addon. #CadQuery

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-freecad-workbench/pull/171/

We met family members for the holidays who recently began #3Dprinting, and we discussed #3Dmodeling. They use a nice Bambu Lab printer; it operates in a walled garden with cloud services in China which would be a deal breaker for me.

Long story short: I discovered #CadQuery for parametric design, and soon noticed that the market for 3D printers is saturated... I ordered a cheap refurbished #SOVOL SV06 which mostly runs OSS. It arrived today, on new year's eve!

There is lots to learn.