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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • I’m very sorry for your bad user experience! What you’ve described, sounds like some basic user errors which would’ve been easily solved by sticking to good modeling practices

    The most egregious issue I had was in trying to loft between two faces, such that the curve between the faces was a 3D one.

    In Fusion360, it’s pretty damn simple, you click the first face, ctrl+ click the second, then select the loft option. Then it’s pretty much done.

    In FreeCad/Ondsel, in trying to look up a tutorial to see how such an operation is normally done, the only tutorial that got me remotely close was this one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv53D00KdGQ

    Following the tutorial would lead to errors, crashes, and even if it had worked, it is such a painful way to do this operation.

    So this isn’t simply an issue with bad modeling practices. Maybe it’s a terrible tutorial and there is better options out there. But the ease in which it is possible to do this task in Fusion360 should be the gold standard.


  • They fundamentally solve the Topo-Naming-Problem I propose to try again after the next release.

    I’m not super familiar with that problem, as it has been a minute. But I might try to give it another go at some point.

    I don`t know the #Onsel fork. In what way does it differ from #Freecad or Freecad from #realthunder?

    From a user perspective, it has a much more friendly UI in my opinion. When you click on an object, it displays a list of all possible actions you can take with said object. That to me was a huge upgrade over the base FreeCad implementation.





  • And for those uses they aren’t getting phased out:

    Surprisingly, there is a whole slew of exempt special-purpose bulbs that will continue to be manufactured, according to the Energy Department. Here’s what manufacturers can still build and stores can continue selling:

    Appliance lamps, including fridge and oven lights

    Black lights

    Bug lamps

    Colored lamps

    Infrared lamps

    Left-handed thread lamps

    Plant lights

    Floodlights

    Reflector lamps

    Showcase lamps

    Traffic signals

    Some other specialty lights, including marine lamps and some odd-sized bulbs











  • The building manager, Oscar, was recently put in charge of the whole department/building because things weren’t working out well. Well it got worse under Oscar. First he made a push to end working from home, and then he got into so many arguments and fights with my boss Theo. It didn’t take long for Theo to say fuck it and leave, which is when things got worse.

    For a 2 month period or so, our entire team of like 13 people were in limbo with no direction. Oscar temporarily took control of our team until he found a replacement. And in that time he constantly was grilling us for answers about what our team did and how it worked. Not fun. A little bit later he fired two people off our team.

    We then got a replacement manager, David. He’s not the best manager, but he’s not the worst. He struggles to comprehend what our team does, but he trusts that we know enough to get by with a little bit of direction on what project we should be working on. Another 2 people left over the course of a few months on their own.

    Then in March, Oscar fired about 30 people across the department for “budget” reasons. From what I heard, the company lost a shit load of money due to all the project delays. Those delays have only gotten worse now that morale is in the garbage. Nobody wants to work hard at a place they fear they will be fired from at any moment while constantly being interrogated by Oscar. Some more people left on their own over the following months.

    Cut to today, and there are 5 people left on the team I’m in. And I put my two weeks notice in because I got a better job. I don’t know what kind of shit show it’s gonna turn into, or what’s gonna happen when there is nobody left on my team. But on my team at least, every member has been looking for the door, and it’s been a race to not be the last person still working there.

    So yeah, if your a manager, maybe don’t interrogate people and make people fear for their livelihoods.