<div dir="ltr">Sorry for further spam. Here's the best link to the installers. For Linux, check your repository first, or compile from sources.<br><br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/files/?source=navbar">http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/files/?source=navbar</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all!<br><br>Just some clarification:<br><br><div>:-) YES! It's free!<br>:-) NO! You don't have to be a Techshop member! This is being hosted by Type-A Machines.<br>
:-) YES! It's at the SF Techshop (doh! I forget there's an outside world, sometimes.)<br>
:-) YES! I like beer!<br>:-) No, I probably shouldn't have too many<br><br>See you next week!<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello illustrious hackers, geeks, artists, engineers, and otherwise "parametric modeler, inclined",<br>
<br>This is an invitation to join me for an informal discussion and exploration of the state of "FreeCAD", a parametric modeler in the style of Solidworks and Inventor.<br>
<br>Techshop, Wednesday, April 17th, 8:00PM. Entry is free.<br>
<br>There is a new tool in town. A free tool, an opesource tool, a powerful tool, a tool that is designed to compliment and facilitate the creation and fabrication of things. This tool is FreeCAD, and it is a project (as opposed to product) that is showing massive potential to break us free of expensive, closed, cumbersome, tools that don't play nice with the rest of the industry.<br>
<br>What this tool promises is an end...to the seemingly endless...battle with software for designing and building our world.<br><div><br>The nuts and bolts of this tool are in place. It's like a BMW, in all its precision .. just without the sporty interior, the fenders, the windows. We can expect it to do what we need it to do, but the interface, which is very intuative, is also not complete.<br>
<br>Which is where we come in. Not to design the interface, but to explore the interface and view the interface with the eyes of a new user.<br><br>We will find the interface very familiar because it borrows from the solidworks/inventor paradigm. But neither of these tools are terribly intuitive to a new user.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This software is designed to be as powerful as the tools we are used to, but to be more approachable. <br><br>My goal, our goal, it to see if it is. Our goal is to try a couple "hello world" parts of our choosing and find out where we get snagged along the way, and report this back to the developers.<br>
<br>The ultimate goal being, guide this tool to becoming the open access to industrial design and engineering software package the DIY community deserves, and to build a common language for people to use to share design intent so that the domain of design is not encumbered by cost.<br>
<br>Following this meeting, I hope to design hardware and platform agnostic curriculum to get the DIY community up to speed with CAD!<br><br>So, who would like to join me?</div></div>
</blockquote></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div class="im"><div><br></div>-- <br>Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein" target="_blank">Albert Einstein</a><br>
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Da_Vinci" title="Leonardo Da Vinci" target="_blank">Leonardo Da Vinci</a><br>
Perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry" title="Antoine de Saint Exupéry" target="_blank">Antoine de Saint Exupéry</a><br>
Keep It Simple Stupid - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Johnson" title="Clarence Johnson" target="_blank">Kelly Johnson</a>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein" target="_blank">Albert Einstein</a><br>
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Da_Vinci" title="Leonardo Da Vinci" target="_blank">Leonardo Da Vinci</a><br>
Perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry" title="Antoine de Saint Exupéry" target="_blank">Antoine de Saint Exupéry</a><br>
Keep It Simple Stupid - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Johnson" title="Clarence Johnson" target="_blank">Kelly Johnson</a>
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