I’m speaking at hardwear.io in a couple weeks! Building your OWN silicon analysis toolkit! Look forward to showing you what I’ve come up with using low cost parts and free software like Ondsel

3D Printers are pretty handy for last minute needs… Ondsel makes quick work of the design.

Very cool to see varsets in use! Pro tip: if you upload a model with varsets to Ondsel Lens, anyone (with an account) can tweak your model variables online and download customized FCStd / OBJ / STL (whichever you enable in a share link)

Pie menus as seen in Blender 🔶 and Inventor — yay or nay?

In other news, the integrated Assembly workbench now has support for the toponaming solution. The first patch by pierrelouis (Ondsel) has just landed to the upstream project

Also, what's your experience with multi-body dynamics? :)

How would you feel about multi-body dynamics with FEM integration in Ondsel ES? :)

We've just released another bugfix update for the latest stable version of Ondsel ES. Fixes are mostly in Assembly, VarSets, and the Lens addon ondsel.com/blog/ondsel-es…

WIP by Billy Janshon: "Designing a custom cooling shroud and direct drive for my Ender 5 Pro 3D printer"

Shai Seger of Fasteners WB and SheetMetal WB fame recently started working on shadows and ambient occlusion in FreeCAD (CAD+CAM+FEA). Here's an early demo of soft ground shadow, all done with Coin 3D and custom shaders youtube.com/watch?v=jaRh9D…

.pierrelouis has been exploring the topic of flexible subassemblies and offering possible solutions youtube.com/watch?v=OO0-X_… Here is the releveant thread in the upstream forum: forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?…

To comply with recent sanctions announced by the U.S. Department of The Treasury, we are restricting access to online Ondsel services to residents of the Russian Federation. This change goes into effect on September 12, 2024

We've just posted a quick intro to publishing your projects on the Lens cloud service directly from Ondsel ES and exploring them online. Meanwhile, some exciting changes are coming to Lens (hint: STEP 😉) ondsel.com/blog/share-you…

📢 Join the #FreeCAD 2024 Hackathon discord.com/invite/PzYEBh5…

One more weekend and I will have my own excavator in FreeCAD (CAD+CAM+FEA)' new assembly workbench, built by Ondsel

Ondsel Lens just got better support for STEP files: now you can upload, version, and visualize them, create share links and share privately with other users — just like regular FreeCAD files ondsel.com/blog/step-on-l…

You can make your own Ondsel ES defaults and revert to them anywhere. Just back them up on Lens and then restore on a new computer. Or you could roll out the same prefs to an entire team when they are members of an organization on Lens ondsel.com/blog/backup-re…

Upcoming Ondsel 2024.3 will have the visual setting of limits in Revolute, Cylindrical, and Slider joints in the Assembly workbench

Look at 'em gears turning!