New lightweight FOSS parametric CAD part designer: Dune 3D
New lightweight FOSS parametric CAD part designer: Dune 3D
Anybody try this one? Looks like it's using OpenCASCADE and Solvespace's solver. Basically looks like somebody wanted Solvespace with fillets and chamfers. I've played around with it a bit, but the UI is a little frustrating so far. Promising app if it gets further development, though.
I'm a huge Solvespace fan so you had me at fillets and chamfers! Thanks for posting this.
Played around with Dune 3D and so far some cool stuff compared to Solvespace is:
- Chamfers and fillets (seem to work well so far)
- Groups can be reordered! This is huge for workflow and managing bigger designs.
- There's a cool shortcut search menu if you hit spacebar.
- According to the README, it solves some stuff symbolically, which should be good for performance (hopefully it'll have fewer weird cases than Solvespace where the solver has trouble)
The UI needs some work, and there's some basic functionality like STL export that I could only find from the spacebar search menu, but this is an amazing start and I hope this project grows. I need to design a simple widget for 3D printing in the next couple of weeks and I will definitely be trying this for that.
Glad it seems to be useful! I am a little concerned (if that's the right word for something I'm not invested in at all yet) that the dev seems to have made something fit for his purposes, namely designing 3D printed enclosures for electronics projects, that nothing much else will come of it. As for the UI, he seems pretty committed to that space bar menu. He was around on the matrix room as recently as last month though.
The other oddball place to find open source mechanical part design in is the Salome FEA package, which updated its part workbench a year or two ago to go fully parametric. Salome is the opposite of lightweight on any OS, though, and installing it on Kubuntu was one of the more unpleasant such experiences I've had recently.