Your comments are really stuck in my head, so here is a brain dump, untidy 2nd response:
Regarding professional use: The number of professional is not a large market share, but FreeCAD is used professionaly by architects, tradesmen (eg air con duct design and quotes), contract designers, ...and educators/video publishers.\
Pretty sure sheetmetal WorkBench is used by many commercial workshops.
There are now several PLM addons, also showing growing professional interest.
...and FreeCAD is now so good, that there are scam sites and other sites are rebranding it and selling it.
Just released 1.1 ....based on when NO BLOCKING issues remained, ie zero blocking issues.
FC Needs focus??? Look at the events calender and follow through to see meeting discussion and outcomes!
FC under v active dev/improvement: See WIP Wed
Actively backporting to PRs to v1.1 dozens/100s??
Good first issues
How many issues listed are related to dev/weekly versions, ie NOT to released v1.1?
Developer days inc grants for travel
Google SOC - which is running ATM.
Sponsorship from Kicad (CERN plays a big role in Kicad now) and other commercial and private sponsors......
The depth of FC:
+BIM, FEM, Materials, Addon Manager + #issues & bugs for each
Materials - scope what already acheived is staggering - eg can just use as basis of CAM - Machinability - advanced SF
CAM - Machines(way beyond multi-axis and includes new postprocessors architecture)
One dev @Tarman seems very focussed on CAM bugs AND more so on IMPROVEMENTS!
SheetMetal
Addons+Community is staggering well over 100.....Solar, Road, Robots, Rockets, Guitars, Boat hull, Plane Wings, Gears, Optics, Kicad integration, Pipes, Frames, Columns, Beams, Windows, Doors, Stairs, Threads, Bolts, several PLM, multiple wire/cable, several Parts Libraries, and there are many more unofficial, ie not requested to add!
FPA grants+bugs
FPA employed/grant to help improve addons (including chasing me to update an addon)
This feels like a new start, so here we go!
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Spontaner Gedankengang:
Ein Kleines Fedi Treffen in Berlin Organisieren aber als Thema ADHS.
also für ADHS Menschen / angehörige.
Hättet ihr Interesse an einem solchen Meetup?
My brain feels like a browser with 100 tabs open. Today I’m doing a Brain Dump and moving it all to paper so I can finally think clearly. 📝
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Dinge die ich mir für die nächsten 12 Monate vornehme weil ich wieder ein wenig ein Planung brauche:
- Beim 3D Drucker für bessere Wärme abfur sorgen.
- mindestens einen Blog Eintrag schreiben und veröffentlichen.
- anfangen alte Beiträge von mir zu löschen, nachdem ich sie für mich und "Tagebuchzwecke" archiviert habe ☺️
- auf Kleinanzeigen Geld für Umarmungen verlangen...
How do you create and keep your non-task knowledge snippets with OrgMode?
Back to using Sway on NixOS with Home Manager. It was the same combo that sort of burned me out on nixos last year, but I've got a bit more confidence now in the whole stack to make it work. I love the i3/sway way of doing things, and I can't really get the same experience anywhere else, so it's back WMs for a while.
This time, I'll experiment with writing my dotfiles in their native format before delegating home manager to hold onto their state, I'll ask home manager to do less overall so it doesn't do dumb things like step on my gtk config on every rebuild, and I'll slowly build the system up over a longer period of time instead of like in a weekend.
Slower, simpler, and hopefully less nixos-rebuild switch calls.
I'm also using nwg shell for the common UI components and settings managers, which is fantastic by the way. It solves needing to learn an entire esoteric config language for every program in your system, and the final look and feel is very cohesive. Nwg-panel has me sold on just that alone.
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