Alibre is nice. I find the workflow pretty sensible, even if (like Solid Edge) it feels like there are sometimes extra clicks. The Atom version is super cheap and still has a proper parametric history, but is nerfed in ways that might feel limiting ( e.g. no Boolean operations, which makes mold-making and some other complex work quite difficult). When I was getting frustrated with FreeCAD, I was starting to look around at subscriptions and realized if I just waited for a sale on a permanent license for their Professional version (I also did payments), it would become a better deal than Fusion or Shapr3D within about two years.

Before that I was using a copy of “BeckerCAD 14 3D Pro” that I got from its German distributor for EUR20 with some reasonable success, but in addition to some truly aged and awkward camera controls and design choices, it also lacks a parametric history.

Best I can tell, Alibre does NOT support 3mf. It supports STL, STEP, and some other single part formats though.

Short answer? Because it does. It doesn’t take much to be visible compared to space.

It’s, oh jeez, six months old by now, but back in the spring I went through all the ones I’d tried. I ultimately settled on the middle tier for Alibre, with a permanent license. Pricier than Atom, to be sure, but feature complete for any needs I can imagine for myself as an utter amateur.

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/13801439

A whole meter?!?!?!?!

I don’t know why Solid Edge doesn’t get more love. IMO it’s comparable to Fusion for basic part design, and it’s fully local.

I actually got a license for Alibre, so I’ll keep using that until my hair finishes turning gray.

I was running into some errors with the FreeCAD Appimage in Linux, but the Windows version is running fairly smoothly, and it’s finally getting enough helper prompts and heuristic interface things to be less unwieldy, but it’s still FreeCAD. For instance, I’m still trying to find the easiest of three or four kludgey ways to project a face onto a sketch, and none of them are as easy as the purpose-built tool for that in Alibre.

Trivia’s always been one of my things, but there was very much a luck element that I didn’t have to second guess any of these.

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

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Definitely enough sugar in THAT.

Do tomatoes even have enough sugar to ferment into a usable amount of alcohol without “spiking” the juice first?

Word Chase #70
Score: 1630 🎉
Words: 20 📖
wordchase.clevergoat.com 🐐

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

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50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said “okay, now is fine” to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.

I looked through a few of the materials. Just like Florida’s slavery materials from a year ago, it uses dark patterns and weasel words to make it seem like it’s no big deal. There’s shit like, “The Christian Bible claims a man named Jesus was born in a manager because there was no room in the inn and when he grew up his followers viewed him as the messiah, and eventually the entire Roman Empire became Christian.”

There’s also a pointlessly long description (unless you know what the real point is) of how the Apostle Paul used the Roman road network, first to persecute Christians than after something (wink wink) happened, to spread Christianity.

It’s gross.

I still have a 4gb Eye-Fi that use just as an SD card to shuttle files out to my laser cutter. I assume the wi-Fi would be horrendously slow and insecure if it worked at all. Was pretty cool when we still had a standalone P&S digital camera though.

One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.

Ol’ Phil may have a tiny vestigial conscience, and I do mean tiny, but it still may be disqualifying for this administration.

there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class

And HOO BOY do some of them know it! 🤣

The broader point is well taken, though.

Poetry. Sheer poetry!

One, surgeons were already the dumb jocks of the medical community, relatively speaking. I know he’s got some legitimately brilliant feathers in his cap, but that brings us to…

Two, other than techbros, MD’s are maybe the worst offenders in the category of “I’m smart about some things, therefore I can easily intuit my way to mastery of all things, I have no blind spots, and my prejudices are simply common sense.”

Three, the man has been in a fame bubble for twenty plus years now.

I don’t think it helped that, at least at that point in his career, Anthony Montgomery was simply a bad-to-meh actor. I think they maybe saw a wide-eyed optimism that they liked in the audition or something, but his line-readings were often school-play amateurish, to say nothing of communicating any lifelike emotion or pulling off the “I’m young but I’ve seen more shit than most of you” vibe a boomer was supposed to have. The episode on his old ship should have been really powerful, but it just sort of fizzled.

Padma Lakshmi was better. There. I said it.