The advantage over exporting an STL/OBJ file would be that it could be parametric. For example, Thingiverse Customizer, Youmagine, Solidoodles, etc. The scenario that's most obvious to me is that people could model in Fusion 360 (it's a nice shared authoring GUI for CAD modeling) and then export OpenSCAD script representations for rendering using OpenSCAD. The question is - is there interest on the part of some OpenSCAD developers in helping make it easy for Fusion 360 to integrate with OpenSCAD. To be clear, Fusion 360 is a proprietary commercial application, and I suspect that won't change. Some more insight on this issue is nicely addressed in this text, you may like checking out: Īs a side note: I love INSTRUCTABLES, by the way! :-D After all we're all makers/hackers/diy-minded people/etc., right? So, while a gratis tool may sound generous, it blocks us from flipping it upside down and creating whatever crazy things we want to create with it.
I'm pretty sure most people here in this mailing list believe that they deserve the right to tinker with the tools they use.
And the most valuable thing for free software activists is software freedom, which is exactly what offers of "gratis" licenses of proprietary software lack: they are free, but they lack freedom. I'm just stating that if companies want something from the software freedom movement, the companies must give something back as well. Unfortunatelly, the most common partnerships I've seen recently in the "maker movement" do not truly satisfy that expectation of freedom. That is, software that respects the freedoms of the users. Actually I think it is very important to foster the free software economy by having more employed programmers producing truly-free software.
I do agree that there is potential for good partnerships between free software communities and technology companies. I would in any case be interested in being in the loop - having contact with a fan in the Autodesk system cannot hurt :) I’m also doing a bunch of Javascript-based experiments with OpenSCAD these days, so I might be interested in such a project. I’m not at all familiar with Fusion 360, but I like the idea. > The next question is - are any big openSCADers who might be interested in working with the Fusion API to build a javascript->openSCAD converter? What do you think of the idea? Any suggestions? On Aug 25, 2014, at 14:22 PM, Laird Popkin wrote: The image I attached took over 3 evenings to complete (like 10 hours) and is still not complete.On Mon, at 3:43 PM, Marius Kintel wrote: (The ATMEGA chip, LEDS and resistors are all hand made. I’ve even looked up data sheets to get dimensions and created the Step files from scratch in Fusion 360. I have been trolling the web attempting to get 3D models from online stores (as an example: digikey) as well as the generic (free) offering from library iO. I have the Eagle CAD files from this website, and I can clearly see from within Eagle CAD the libraries used but do not have a clue where those are located or if they can be shared. I have sold method to get the board out of Eagle CAD (looks really sharp in Fusion 360 - see the attached image !) but I notice there are a bunch of warnings/ cautions when doing so because there are no 3D models tied to the export board. I have taken the dive into Eagle CAD for the sole purpose of modeling Arduino boards so that I can use them in Fusion 360 to accurately model enclosures and cases.