I have a tip for you. You can select a normal 2 ways in solvespace. You did it the hard way by zooming in to the origin and try to very precisely position your mouse and hopefully pick it up... Or the easy way - there's a colourful xyz normal diagram that everyone ignores in the bottom left of your drawing space, click the normal you want there! There's never anything in the way
haven't finished the video yet. but would like to ask anyway. how does solvespace perfrom in cases where freecad will have the topology naming problem? thanks!
@@JokoEngineeringhelp I use SolveSpace for quick modeling and finish them in Blender or FreeCAD. Solvespace is particularly bad at drawing a lot of holes.
Where’d you learn compressor design? It’s always seemed like black magic to me, even as an engineer i have found very little information on how it is done
You and me both, truly I don't take much consideration for them to flow well as much as I try to stress the different user interfaces for the same part.
Having to bodge around zero thickness surface errors in FreeCAD is interesting --- you don't have to do this in SolveSpace (which is the only tool I know). Why can't FreeCAD deal with these automatically?
Hi hjalfi; I see two possibilities - 1) The kernel of FreeCAD throws a computation error in a zero thickness situtation or 2) I'm completely wrong and I wrongfully assumed that it was a zero thickness but it was something else!
Imports: dwg and dxf (not always correct). Exports: png, pdf (in a pretty smart way depending on current view), dxf, step, stl, obj and js meshes.The application is around 7 MB, linux version is likely in your repo, it was in debians, or if you're stuck with windows, that version is just an executable. It's very easy to try out!
Am I missing something with SolveSpace? Why isn't there something as simple as constraining distance horizontally/vertically? You can only constrain distance from point to point.
You can constrain distance from a point to a line. If you want to constrain only the X or Y distance from the point, you would probably benefit from some construction lines. They'll probably be reused.
Still not sure if I (will) like SolveSpace (someday)... It is not so much (if at all) the very old looking look and feel but until now, it is for me more tricky than FreeCad was in the beginning...
@@JokoEngineeringhelp 3.0 has not been released yet (see github.com/solvespace/solvespace/milestone/2). There is a snap with the latest commits wich is tagged "3.0~" : snapcraft.io/solvespace
Free, yes. Open source, not so much. This may not seem like a problem until a corporation starts limiting features in order to force users to upgrade to their paid software or stops supporting the software you use, leaving you no choice but to migrate to another program. Granted, Fusion360 appears much more streamlined, but I would be very wary of vendor lock-in.
Just remember Autodesk can give and Autodesk can take away. Make sure to read the license agreement before use: download.autodesk.com/us/FY18/Suites/LSA/en-US/lsa.html
I have a tip for you. You can select a normal 2 ways in solvespace. You did it the hard way by zooming in to the origin and try to very precisely position your mouse and hopefully pick it up... Or the easy way - there's a colourful xyz normal diagram that everyone ignores in the bottom left of your drawing space, click the normal you want there! There's never anything in the way
It's so good to see a solvespace user here. I need to get in and start using it again.
Thanks for the tutorial Joko. My fusion360 license just ended and was looking at alternatives. Your tutorial is probably the best one out there.
haven't finished the video yet. but would like to ask anyway. how does solvespace perfrom in cases where freecad will have the topology naming problem? thanks!
It does not have this problem because it is properly designed parametric CAD. FreeCAD is a mess.
Just wanted to if I should learn Solvespace or FreeCAD. When I saw you using the calculator several times, I had my answer.
I would recommend both!
@@JokoEngineeringhelp I use SolveSpace for quick modeling and finish them in Blender or FreeCAD. Solvespace is particularly bad at drawing a lot of holes.
Very interesting. Just downloaded solvespace and will tinker around. This was really useful to me as I'm a freecad user. Thanks!
Where’d you learn compressor design? It’s always seemed like black magic to me, even as an engineer i have found very little information on how it is done
You and me both, truly I don't take much consideration for them to flow well as much as I try to stress the different user interfaces for the same part.
How is the flow for build worm and gears? Could you share please?
Having to bodge around zero thickness surface errors in FreeCAD is interesting --- you don't have to do this in SolveSpace (which is the only tool I know). Why can't FreeCAD deal with these automatically?
Hi hjalfi; I see two possibilities - 1) The kernel of FreeCAD throws a computation error in a zero thickness situtation or 2) I'm completely wrong and I wrongfully assumed that it was a zero thickness but it was something else!
Is it possible, to extract a technical drawing with dimensions etc. from that 3D-Sketch? Or do I need another program for that?
You can with FreeCAD
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@@JokoEngineeringhelp thank you!
I think I linked the wrong video. Here is the one I meant ua-cam.com/video/cggBR1Ghq7k/v-deo.html
Can solvespace export to or import from other formats?
Imports: dwg and dxf (not always correct). Exports: png, pdf (in a pretty smart way depending on current view), dxf, step, stl, obj and js meshes.The application is around 7 MB, linux version is likely in your repo, it was in debians, or if you're stuck with windows, that version is just an executable. It's very easy to try out!
@@funkysod Hey, thanks a lot :)
Am I missing something with SolveSpace? Why isn't there something as simple as constraining distance horizontally/vertically? You can only constrain distance from point to point.
You can constrain distance from a point to a line. If you want to constrain only the X or Y distance from the point, you would probably benefit from some construction lines. They'll probably be reused.
Can't decide. Which should I pick?
I personally use FreeCAD much more frequently
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Thank you!
Because the "lofting-like" feature doesn't appear to be in 2.3
Still not sure if I (will) like SolveSpace (someday)... It is not so much (if at all) the very old looking look and feel but until now, it is for me more tricky than FreeCad was in the beginning...
Like the solvespace videos! And all the other ones too!
Any possiblities that someone could allow me to download a windows version of this 3.0 ?
and where please ?
I don't think there is a 3.0 version in windows unfortunately. In fact, I've only found the 3.0 in Ubuntu linux, but not Mint or other distros.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp 3.0 has not been released yet (see github.com/solvespace/solvespace/milestone/2). There is a snap with the latest commits wich is tagged "3.0~" : snapcraft.io/solvespace
The UI is a bit odd. It reminds me of autocad running on CGA.
CGA! Last century before WW2 😆
Should let you import some default key shortcuts
thanks for your time
Thanks for the video.
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Looks like Autodesk Fusion, which is also free, blows these programs out of the water. 🤔🤔🤔
And Fusion is open source where? Yeah exactly.
Until they pull the startup/non-commercial versions after you've based your learning and use on them!
@@eggyherman From what I can tell, Fusion is only free for one year
Free, yes. Open source, not so much. This may not seem like a problem until a corporation starts limiting features in order to force users to upgrade to their paid software or stops supporting the software you use, leaving you no choice but to migrate to another program. Granted, Fusion360 appears much more streamlined, but I would be very wary of vendor lock-in.
Just remember Autodesk can give and Autodesk can take away. Make sure to read the license agreement before use: download.autodesk.com/us/FY18/Suites/LSA/en-US/lsa.html
Thanks for the video.