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Personally, I use FreeCAD. I kinda like the unintuitivness a bit. You have to watch a few tutorials and read the wiki or manual, and getting into the whole workbench stuff and what can be used where thing. But in the end you are less likely to mess up so badly as two of my classmates on a 3D printing related subject once did. They extruded literal side planes only and used poorly made sketch with no calibration or constraints whatsoever. They also used wrong tab in Fusion for that, so they wasted like 4 hours, because the software had no reason to warn them and they had no reason to look for answers. In FreeCAD, they wouldn’t even get past creation of the sketch. I didn’t when I tried it out for the first time. : )
Also, I find some UI elements in FreeCAD to be better than in Fusion. The only way that I could find to have some variables was to open a dialog window that I can’t just deselect and then come back when needed. In FreeCAD I can either use Spreadsheet or VarSet.
And the best thing was performance. My laptop was really struggling to run Fusion even in a window that was barely 720p. FreeCAD has no issue runnin on 4k external screen even though I only have integrated Intel GPU.
For me personally, FreeCAD is the winner. But feel free to use whatever you like. There’s even a project that aims to run Fusion on Linux. You can check that if you prefer that. Although a friend of mine had some trouble getting it to work 100%.
TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?English
18·11 days agoWorks, but it definitely is not a solution for everyone. There are people who live in areas where it is too far to ride on a bike (and slow) and using public transport takes 2-3 times longer than by car. Especially some areas near cities.
2016 Macbook Pro btw
Also, in all honesty, not having bios access or well documented UEFI settings is bigger pain. Searching how to disable autoboot on lid opening was fun.
I was lucky enough to have a chip that’s compayible with
brcfmacone. So on vanilla Arch it works out of the box. On some distros, they load a different module, that does not work with my chip, so I had to fix that way back when using Enedavour OS.
Personally, I do not like the default launcher on most phones. It makes your home screen look messy. But I can’t get used to pure minimal either. I still want it to be a bit of an eye candy.
That’s why I fell in love with TinyBit Launcher. When you spend enough time ricing it it can look really good.

- TinyBit Launcher
- Unexpected Keyboard
- Arcticons
TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Audacity 4 will be a full UI overhaul apparently.English
11·2 months agoI usually go with Krita. Not because of the UI, i just learnt to use it first and like it. Or Inkscape for vector graphics.
Neprekvapilo by ma, keby software čo používajú bol písaný v Jave. Ideálne 8 alebo dákej podobne starej verzii.
I experienced something simmilar. Authors, comedians and actors were mostly from our or neighbouring states, and man were they brilliant. In my case it was rather a kind of comedy, that was heavily relying on spoken word, but those guys really knew their craft.
TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•PixiEditor 2.0 - a FOSS Universal 2D Graphics Editor is hereEnglish
2·4 months agoI do almost all raster work in Krita. Aside for drawing, I find it more than usable for photo editing. You just have to play around long enough to get the muscle memory and learn a few tricks.
I guess it depends on everyone’s preferences.
I am currently using Floorp, which also adds plenty of features. Haven’t tried Zen yet, but it looks interesting.
TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?English
5·6 months agoCurrently studying Computer Engineering. I did manage to get most stuff working without needing Windows.
It came usually at the cost of extra work, but I’d say it was worth it. So far I even got to writing makefiles for C++ projects targetting some Atmel chip (Microchip Studio is Windows only). And in some cases I even found better tools than what they privided us with.
Unless you need some very very specific program or run into some wierd constrains you will be fine.
TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlto
3DPrinting@lemmy.world•PIP Sandpaper holder I made in blender a few years backEnglish
2·8 months agoAt first I thought it was a DIY guitar pick holder. Anyway, nice job.
TruePe4rl@lemmy.mltoUnixporn@lemmy.ml•[rofi] I wrote a little rofi launcher to hot-switch xrandr configsEnglish
2·8 months agoDid something simillar a while back. Just a simple perl script to get files in a directory and launch
rofi. Great decision btw. I use it daily.Imo, the toughest part about working with
rofiin general was figuring out how to get some search metadata to finally work.





Also, if you plan to put it inside during the print, try to preheat any metal you want to use. But make sure the heights roughly match, because the plastic will cool slower and distort more.