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NeatNit
joined 2 years ago
Thanks! I've sent it to him and I'll try to skim it myself.
Well, if you insist.. How far is it from Toronto to Ottawa? (bracing myself...)
Must be some simple tutos out there now how to make millimeter precise stuff & boolean operations on volumes for my 3D printing…
Sounds like you need CAD software instead of 3D modeling software. Very different!
FreeCAD exists and is FOSS but IMO is not very user-friendly. Then again I never seriously tried using it or watching tutorials or anything, so this might be unfair. Give it a shot I suppose!
The few times I needed to design something in CAD, I had success with Fusion 360. It's easy to use and gets the job done, but it's kinda gross with its confusing (mandatory?) cloud integration.
You can ask in 3D printing circles what CAD software people use and recommend, they'll certainly know better than me! If you're up for giving FreeCAD a shot, I'll be happy to hear your experience with it. I'd really like to know if it's better than I give it credit for.
Edit: seems like a lot has changed since I last checked out FreeCAD. Version 1.0 was released and I'm sure it's better since I tried it. So forget what I said, it's probably good!
but if you hear a Canadian say “miles per hour”, it also means km/h
Tell me you're joking.
I've recently heard of Bevy, which is a new FOSS game engine made with Rust! I don't know a lot about it but my gamedev friend is excited about it. He doesn't care as much about it being FOSS (he's using Unreal for his current game) but it's supposed to just be good. Unreal is an absolute pain to work with.
That said, it's still in early stages. It's usable from what I understand, but even their quick start introduction warns about it and advises people to use Godot if they're looking for a mature, stable engine.
Blender is a contender for the best go-to example in the history of open-source software. It's easy for any layperson to understand what it is (unlike, say, Linux), and it's genuinely better than the for-profit competition in a lot of aspects. There's nothing else like it.
It's been growing for decades, and its community is the best.
I'm really not in that space so I only get to watch from the sidelines, but I've always been in awe of Blender.
Police, this guy right here.
The post. The email in the screenshot.
I call bullshit. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this seems fake to me.
Edit: I initially assumed OP created the fake email deliberately for ragebait. But most other people are assuming OP thinks (or thought) this email was real, meaning it's a scam email and OP's friend might be actively falling for the scam. I now agree with this interpretation. Sorry my initial comments were a bit rude.
It's obviously been painted over and the word "Copper" in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.