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So you heat your ABS filament spool before printing to reduce warping later on?

Sure, that formulation was not very good. But you get the idea. There is not only the "western" social media world. But what does it look like? I have no clue about what people use in Africa for example.

Thanks for the information!

What's a soak in this context?

I would have loved to see the parts that are not under the US-American influence. What are Asian, African or South Americans using?

Well you also don't understand community projects apparently. It's software made by mostly (or only?) unpaid volunteers. You can't expect anything from it. Everything you get is a fucking present that you should be grateful for. If you don't like it, go and pay for a commercial solution. Better even help out the project by reporting bugs, usability issues, writing docs or code.

For now FreeCAD is the best FLOSS CAD around and only a strong community will make it better. Naysayers like you and @thantik can go shut up, you don't create anything of value by complaining. I agree that FreeCAD has many issues. The important part is that it's getting better with every release and the releases keep on coming regularly.

I've used Blender 20 years ago and it was in a veeery different shape than today, but it was amazingly well managed and has developed into a beautiful piece of software rivaling even the most expensive commercial packages in many respects. I predict this to happen for FreeCAD as well. When I first installed it some ten years ago, I couldn't even get it to make cube. Now I have yet to find a 3d printing project that I couldn't do with it. Keeping in mind that Blender's development started 1994, ie. roughly 30 years ago, we'd need to wait another 10 years for FreeCAD to be as good as Blender in its respective domain.

You sound like an ungrateful brat!

I didn't know it had an acronym now ^^

Me too. While it's probably not as good as commercial packages, I've yet to encounter something I can't model. Once the topological naming problem is gone (should happen soon) it's gonna be a delight to use.

Probably bought by Dassaut and developed by different teams

Wow, it's actually way less stupid than expected at first. This is how we're getting forwards in 3d printing.

I wonder if spraying the print with water or a different cooling liquid would be a more practical solution.

Be sure to apply that script to actually change the temperature. There is not really a change visible. Also the extrusion stops when printing the digits. That's weird.

This

The under-extrusion looks nice :)

Thanks for testing! I've been scrolling across this extruder as well and would like to know how well it works in the long run. Keep us posted please. I currently have an Orbiter v2 which is pretty good for the moment but am looking for a second extruder for my bon mixing dual filament hotend.

Looks very pretty

FreeCAD might fit your bill. You can do many things but it's definitely not a fully blown professional CAD yet. On the downside, it's not always super well documented.

I was mostly wondering if PLA is a good material for these kind of things. But why not :)

I didn't know about filaments.ca. they seem like a nice company. Unfortunately I don't live close bye.

What material did you print it with?