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[–] Lenggo@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think I've seen somewhere that you should set up reference values or something so that you can change parameters on the fly without breaking anything, which is insane to need to have to do that to avoid running into the 'topological naming issue' that magically no other package had a problem with. I've basically stopped using filets and chamfers because those will just destroy any chance I can update anything on the model later on.

The community really is brutal too. I remember reading someone getting taken down because they were asking how to extrude instead of pad while they were on the 'part design' workbench

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I remember reading someone getting taken down because they were asking how to extrude instead of pad while they were on the ‘part design’ workbench

Why are those even two different things at all?!