| mntmn | successfully compiled the current FreeCAD from git on Reform, it works surprisingly well | 18:19 |
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| mntmn | it's really fast | 18:22 |
| andrej235 | nice! | 20:31 |
| swivel | really? FreeCAD was very crashy last time I tried doing any modeling in it, v0.16 in debian x86-64 | 20:39 |
| mntmn | yes, really ;) | 20:40 |
| mntmn | i'm inspecting new STEP files for the future reform. | 20:40 |
| adjtm | swivel, FreeCAD has very rarely crashed to me on x86-64 | 20:40 |
| mntmn | i'm also experimenting with i.MX8M and it will take quite some time until it is well supported in mainline | 20:40 |
| mntmn | currently the support is an unmerged set of patches | 20:41 |
| mntmn | i'm playing with the thought of using the same case to support both imx6 and imx8 boards and fitting displays, so people can choose one of them during the campaign (or even both, and swap it out later) | 20:41 |
| mntmn | imx8 will be usable only in late 2019 i guess | 20:41 |
| mntmn | imx6 is very battle tested already | 20:42 |
| swivel | adjtm: must be something specific in how I was using it, because it would repeatedly work just long enough to waste time and build some confidence in the tool before core dumping | 20:45 |
| swivel | adjtm: since then I've just been using solvespace and blender | 20:45 |
| mntmn | solvespace also pretty cool, but haven't done much with it yet | 20:46 |
| mntmn | i was also surprised that it's possible to make a model with OpenSCAD and let FreeCAD convert that to STEP | 20:46 |
| swivel | I'm not familiar with those things, 3d-printing related? | 20:47 |
| mntmn | normally OpenSCAD can only export STL (meshes for 3d printing) | 20:48 |
| mntmn | so you cannot do anything useful for CNC with it | 20:48 |
| mntmn | but FreeCAD lets you take your openscad parametric code and export STEP which is useful for CNC stuff | 20:49 |
| swivel | ah i see | 20:49 |
| - wiedi (QUIT: Quit: ^C) (~wiedi@ip5b40efc7.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de) | 20:50 | |
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