Afternoon,
Things are finally calming down enough at work to start messing around in the workshop on slack days and evenings. I need to organise my toolbox a bit better and have been looking at stuff like Gridfinity and some other loose printable storage bits like spanner racks, but need to customise stuff. After 20 years working in proprietary-land, it'd be nice to contribute a bit to open source hardware too.
Question: what's the default/accessible CAD for this kind of thing? I use Creo and a bit of Fusion in my day job, but Creo does not do a 'maker' licence and Fusion gets more limited with every shareholder meeting. Neither really support a merge/fork-type collaborative workflow while keeping the construction history and parametric relations (unless you spend ££ on a Windchill setup which isn't really appropriate for a community thing).
Tempted to look at Onshape for the free licence, but I don't see much of that in Thingiverse / Printables, or at least the bits I'm looking at. I dislike Solidworks as their commercial approach is pretty predatory.
FreeCAD is coming along nicely but doesn't feature so much either. Or am I just looking in the wrong places?
Things are finally calming down enough at work to start messing around in the workshop on slack days and evenings. I need to organise my toolbox a bit better and have been looking at stuff like Gridfinity and some other loose printable storage bits like spanner racks, but need to customise stuff. After 20 years working in proprietary-land, it'd be nice to contribute a bit to open source hardware too.
Question: what's the default/accessible CAD for this kind of thing? I use Creo and a bit of Fusion in my day job, but Creo does not do a 'maker' licence and Fusion gets more limited with every shareholder meeting. Neither really support a merge/fork-type collaborative workflow while keeping the construction history and parametric relations (unless you spend ££ on a Windchill setup which isn't really appropriate for a community thing).
Tempted to look at Onshape for the free licence, but I don't see much of that in Thingiverse / Printables, or at least the bits I'm looking at. I dislike Solidworks as their commercial approach is pretty predatory.
FreeCAD is coming along nicely but doesn't feature so much either. Or am I just looking in the wrong places?
