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Consumables are always the best gifts. I don’t even bother with anything else anymore, unless it’s something that I made myself because then it has sentimental value.

The target being the executives who will approve the marketer’s work.

Maybe $100. Almost all of the upgrades were printed. I bought an all metal hotend and a glass bed. I think that’s it. Probably more like $70.

Ew no. I’m still on my ender 3 pro version 1 from 2019. It’s upgraded to the teeth and works great.

There’s no way I’d throw away all that work for a locked down corporate spy machine that uses lots of proprietary, nonstandard parts.

Once you have the model you should at least get a quote from a machine shop. 99% chance it’s way too expensive, but you never know and quotes are free.

How often do you find yourself writing upside down in space?

Pro tip: bring candy for snacks and a thermos of hot chocolate for afterwards.

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They don’t even try to show you anything relevant. “Here’s some random shit, watch it instead.”

Did they actually issue a subpoena though, or did they just send some emails saying “give pls”.

A subpoena is a legal document and thus there are rules that go along with it. But an email asking to be given something is not a subpoena.

they develop community-based committees which have no actual power in themselves but are used to develop concensus on issues that affect the whole community. So rather than abolishing all rules they’re all about human collaboration and concensus.

So it’s a democracy.

You were foolish to have ever given it up in the first place.

Selection in freecad sketches is really bad. Box select with dragging the mouse doesn’t work, you can’t mask elements (make only points or only curves selectable), selections are added to the current selection instead of replacing it even if you aren’t holding shift, and if you miss and click on the backgeound accidentally it unselects everything. And selections aren’t part of history so if you spend five minutes selecting a lot of specific elements and then misclick once, welp do it all over again, no undo for you.

There are a few tool buttons like “selected constraints related to the currently selected element” which are really helpful though.

They also are in completely different industries.

Freecad is for manufacturing. Blender is for art.

I also started using it around that time. And I agree with everything you said except the part where said it’s improved dramatically. It’s improved, yes, but I would call those improvements minimal, not dramatic, especially considering it’s taken five years to accomplish them.

Just so nobody fires up freecad thinking they’re about to get a commercial experience:

FreeCAD sucks. It works. But it sucks. There’s basically no community. Development is fractured and slow. Some workflows that are trivial in solid works are tedious in freecad.

But it works. And it’s foss. If you need something that runs on Linux, it’s the way to go.

I’ve been using super slicer, but it’s a fork of prusa slicer and I’m pretty sure the auto speed feature is a prusa slicer thing.

I have the same setup and with a bigger nozzle I found it useful to use auto speed and max volumetric flow, rather than speed. I found the hotend reaches its flow capacity before speed becomes an issue.

It only comes in one variety and it’s not very good?

I bought a vacuum sealer for $70