Open Source

31654 readers

212 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

1010

What open-source software would you like more people to know about? (reddthat.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

320 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

For 3D Modelling / Printing, if you have even a little bit of programming / scripting ability, OpenSCAD is amazing.

It's basically just a small scripting language for generating 3D objects and performing 3D modelling operations and its so handy to be able to store important info as precise variables, and create new objects and cuts and stuff just with for loops and if statements.

I use the web version a lot of the time, and while it could use a little work, it's pretty amazing.

[–] Theharpyeagle 5 points 7 months ago

I also recommend trying out FreeCAD and seeing which clicks with you. I found FreeCAD's sketch system more intuitive, though you have to be pretty careful about your order of operations while building your hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you know a good tutorial ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, I honestly just started here, and started playing around with the example, and then started turning that into what I wanted and googling when I needed to: https://ochafik.com/openscad2/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh ok, ty