Designed in FreeCAD and printed on a custom Ender-3 V2. A couple more details / photos in the Mastodon thread.
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Finally, a comm for that one user who hand-makes longbows. This ones for you, comrade.
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I couldn't get that branch to work years ago when I first tried it and didn't care to build from scratch for how often I used it, but I do see they have appimages now. Maybe next time I'll try it. Its kinda annoying to have to go to a fork to get modern features after this many years but
It's well maintained and I've had no issues with it. There's also the Ondsel branch thats based more on LinkStage and kind of an intermediate between LinkStage and FreeCAD main.
I'd definitely try Ondsel if you haven't been able to get LinkStage working, it's definitely worth it and it's got a moderate solution to the topological naming problem as well as a much more intuitive part system. Like you can extrude and pocket faces directly.
Here's a blog post about it
I get that it's a good fork, I just don't get what the hangup is with upstream adopting these changes if they're so superior. I'm sure there's a big hubbub about it somewhere I could read or some technical reason that they won't do it, but just as a lazy user it is a mild annoyance (less mild when it doesn't work).
Upstream is adopting many of these changes. A 1.0 release candidate fully integrating the toponaming changes from RealThunder's branch is supposed to be released within a week or two. There are many other convenience features in the RT branch (like better section views, live updates to chamfer/fillets, non-contiguous bodies, etc) but backwards compatibility with existing models is much more important in upstream than it is in experimental forks like RealThunder's. Basically, it just takes time.
yeahhh I get that in the abstract it was just jarring to see a fork I was getting recommended 5 years ago still be unmerged lol. I should know better from how much I work with open source but apparently I don't lol
I never went too deep on freecad, I just use it the like 5x a year I need to print a part