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Mechanical keyboards, though about forty percent of them at this point are ones I feel comfortable saying I “made,” which is to say I did something significantly more involved than assembling a barebones kit. Still, they’re accumulating a bit and sometimes I build one just to try some small layout tweak or technique I haven’t done before.

I also have a fountain pen collection, but I haven’t added much to it recently. It’s not a bad gift vector for loved ones though, and it turns out that my Montblanc really is nice, though not by such a margin that I was ever going to pay for it myself.

In the meantime, OnShape is cross platform cause it’s all in browser and I don’t care about my designs being public. I actually post them all free anyway.

The biggest issue with their license is that they went so hard on protecting themselves hosting it, that they basically give everyone BUT the creator the right to monetize a public design. It's an offensively sloppy ToU, or at least it was the last time I checked it.

Some of it will depend on what your goals and OS are. OnShape is pretty good, and being in-browser it's inherently cross-platform. BUT... their free tier has the single worst licensing setup imaginable: your designs are public, you can't make a single cent off them, BUT any paying customer (and arguably any other user at all) can. They also jump straight from free to enterprise pricing.

Fusion you know. Licensewise, the free version gives you a small grace zone to make a couple of bucks without issues, and you can at elast keep your designs to yourself.

SolidWorks has an extremely heavy and unfriendly web interface, but their in-browser parametric 3D CAD is better than it used to be, and you can get a maker plan for $25-$50 a year that gives you a little wiggle room to sell a few trinkets and not get blasted if someone or something rats you out to Dassault. If you're on Windows, you'll also be able to install proper SolidWorks (though files will be watermarked to limit them to a hobbyist/maker install.

Solid Edge is a bit clunkier than (real) SolidWorks or Fusion, is windows only, and there's also a doughnut hole for limited commercial use, but it's the full software and it's free as in beer.

Since they cleared up the worst of the toponaming issue, FreeCAD is way better than it used to be. I still feel like the moment you have to do anything more than draw/extrude/fillet, then all the clunkiness comes back, though. It's a brilliant project in its way, but it remains a mixed bag, shall we say.

I paid for a permanent license for my version of Alibre Design, and that's what I generally use. It's somewhere between SolidEdge and Solidworks in user-friendliness, and more than powerful enough for my keyboards and random widgets. I also do like the simplicity of owning my license and therefore fully controlling my designs, but it wasn't cheap, probably two years' worth of monthly payments on the Shapr3D usable tier or the fancy Fusion tier, so I will probably keep plugging along for a while yet. They have a more basic product (Atom) that's missing some fairly useful features, but is still parametric and is rather cheap. It's also all Windows only, though I keep hearing the next version will play nice with Wine/Proton. For now, my investment with Alibre is pretty much THE reason I occasionally boot back into Windows.

TinkerCAD (opwned by Autodesk like Fusion is) is great for certain things, and the "make shape, set solid or hole" workflow is much more intuitive for the abject beginner, but if you're on Fusion you're already past the need for it, i'd think.

There are other players (Rhino, Plasticity, DesignSpark, SolveSpace, among others), but Fusion, Shapr3D (for single parts only, no assemblies),OnShape, SolidEdge, FreeCAD, Alibre, and Solidworks pretty much cover mechanical CAD that's (1) full-featured, (2) 3D, (3) got parametric history and (4) available with usable free or maker versions.

“we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”

When used in a fitting situation, that's one I've always really liked.

Yeah, if it starts happening a lot they should consider some sort of enhancement to their internal customer database and/or front end, but this just seems like some annoying bureaucracy in the name of scalability that was bypassed with a fairly silly but simple workaround.

Now I want to know which of Two Princes or Little Miss Can't Be Wrong you haven't heard yet. The two-hit-wonder disrespect here is staggering, I say. Staggering!

And the need for "progressives" for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.

For the Z'ers, "books" are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.

I use a fintech for my little glorified garage sale ecommerce site (literally hundreds of dollars of sales so far!). I have no idea how you burn through all that runway to do a slightly better banking app for some random regional bank, plus some agreements with the Credit Card companies and a crypto wallet.

Excellent. Thank you!

I also saw "deputy," but the common tie seems to be replacing or substituting. I wonder if it was then-current Hungarian jargon for the switchboard operator having to constantly plug and unplug the patch cables.

And Alexander the Great would be proud of her solution at the end of the workday.

A few years ago, I used my meager seniority award at work ($100 for ten years! Yay...?) to get a Monoprice Select Mini 3D printer. That set off a journey that has been a lot of fun. I'm using a Sovol SV08 now, but the Mini was a great gateway printer at that time.

Didn't Prodigy show one in a cargo bay making a shuttlecraft? My memory is a bit hazy.

I think it only works if you understand from reading other strips that she's already dating Mister Bignose McLongface and that he's no saint.

All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.

I'll defend these, at least a little bit. Yeah, it's obnoxious to get bland and repetitive slop to wade through, but there can be a fine line between that and some community-building in-jokes and shitposting, and I admit I am an absolute sucker for pun threads and especially "No that's ABC, You're thinking of XYZ" exchanges. Banter with familiar rhythms isn't necessarily toxic.

If you have to eat that, you lose anyway.

I could, but that feels like way too much work.

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I assume it depends on the quality of the work actually done, versus the quality that using the allotted time would have allowed. Scantron test? 100 is 100. Essay question (or particularly a term paper) that's nice enough but not very thorough? Maybe the teacher has a point.

I was also absolutely told this by at least one teacher, and in my case they weren't wrong.

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This is mine now.

What do you like to collect?

What software are you using for CAD/modeling?

What software are you using for CAD/modeling?

What idiom did you initially misunderstand, but you prefer your interpretation?

Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself

What's all this other stuff?

Life comes at you fast

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

Jucika substitutes

Jucika substitutes

What are your BEST tech purchases?

So obviously there has to be huge big replicators right? Like big enough for clothes. Furniture. Etc. But do we ever see them in the shows?

Jucika and ladies' collaboration

How many of these "What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?" replies have aged like milk, and which have aged like wine?

You have to invent a new type of candy or dessert, but if it's physically impossible or another commenter can prove it already exists, you lose. What are you making?

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This one goes out to the guy who said made up British words is his least favorite meme genre

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