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  • I dipped my toe into Solvespace for a couple of projects and it's not bad. As with anything it takes some getting used to, and there are things that it does better than freecad (and vice versa).

  • This is not the same as the orange sheep "Partdesign_Clone" command found in the Part Design workbench. Don't ask me why they use the same icon.

    They're the same icon because they're both cloning operations — and I'm sure we're all familiar with the story of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal.

    They're blue and orange because those are the freecad colors for sketch and part respectively.

  • It is uncommon for US grocery stores and supermarkets to leave carts scattered around the parking lot in corrals on purpose. Typically there's an employee who frequently retrieves all the carts and puts them in a huge covered stall just by the building entrance, so the corrals are often empty. Hell, some stores don't have corrals at all.

  • The store bolts a cart to one of these:

    https://danetechnologies.com/shopping-cart-retrievers/

    And then the person wrangling carts will pull carts out of the corral and load them up in front of this.

    They carry a remote that makes the retriever move forward, so the employee can just stand at the front of the (sometimes surprisingly long) train of carts and steer it.

    These things push way harder than a teenager in a back support belt could ever accomplish, so it both increases efficiency of retrieval (more carts at once) and reduces the chances of injury.

  • Walmart is the only place where I've been stopped during the checkout process because the camera system thinks I'm stealing.

    I'm a nerd that tries to minmax my self checkout by putting items in the cart or handbasket in a manner conducive to efficient removal. I'll position the cart on my left, scanner in front, bags on right, and go as fast as the scanner will register the barcode and display the item on screen.

    This works wonderfully everywhere else and I find it rather fun. I can count on Walmart to flag me at least once every trip (even though I slow down there for this reason), with the screen showing the flashing "POSSIBLE THEFT" message and video of me swiping an item quickly across the reader.

    Maybe I should start parking the cart in the middle of the pathway like every other Walmart shopper and taking twenty seconds to dig every item out of the bottom of the cart before meandering around looking for where I set down the handheld scanner.