Fantastic interview! Super nice to get this level of insight from Realthunder who is putting in an amazing amount of work to make FreeCAD a first class development. Exciting times for 0.20!
Great interview OficineRobotica and Fantastic work Realthunder. Free Education and educational tools such as Freecad will ultimately unchain the corporate strangle hold on human ingenuity. Your talented contributions along with others is greatly respected. Thank you.
Oh, man! This is awesome! A 30 minute long video with a really important developer with a very beautiful presentation! I am goint to download Zheng's branch now. Many of the improvements mentioned in the video are the matters I was missing. Thank you!
Topological naming FIX 🍾 Hopefully it'll be merged soon.. On my workflow (learned from commercial cads), this has been one of biggest drawbacks when doing iterations in design. Great to see some future plans.
@@OficineRobotica It would be really useful if the incompatibilities between Real Thunder's solution for the TNP and master branch could be resolved before any further feature development takes place. As discussion on the forum indicates it is potentially more important to preserve the ability to maintain stability in FreeCAD core than to introduce changes that threaten that stability. Sadly I do not have the skills to contribute technically but it seems that Real Thunder's fix introduces complications that make it not yet practical to incorporate into the master branch. I hope Real Thunder can help the main developers to overcome these complications soon, even if it means slowing development of further changes in his branch.
@@paulreader1777 at the moment the new topo naming algo is being merged and that is the foundation of bringing in all the other inhancements. Slowly everything is getting in to master. The topo naming algorithm is one of the points where the compatibility breaks so once the merge is finished the sitiation will improve a lot
Hello OR and Hello RealThunder. Very good to be meeting you. I already know you from the Assembly 3 Preview forum. The video initiative is really cool. Realthunder, congratulations for your job with the Assembly 3 and your Freecad version.
Thanks for this overview of the FreeCAD future features, very promising. I think your work will be indebted for a lot of new users. I enjoy any new video and any new feature you release. Thanks a lot!
I would pay for some professional training videos covering this new branch. The current interface definitely makes FreeCAD hard to use especially being a new user in the CAD world.
JockoEngineering on YT... That's how i learned although I had previous experience in Inventor. FreeCAD is so worth to learn dude. RealThunder is the Elon Musk of opensource xD. I use freeCAD for all my modeling (studying mech. engineering). Only thing that lacks in freeCAD is the TechDRAW workbench because it defaults to ASME style of dimensioning and stuff and my school demands I use our local standards... Other than that FreeCAD is superior IMO.
@@KentoCommenT Do you mean performing operations on different parts of a sketch? Like extruding the exterior lines of the sketch, then cutting holes using interior parts of the sketch? If so, you can do this currently by selecting the lines you desire and performing an operation. FreeCAD will generate a shapebinder automatically for that operation from the lines you selected. It doesn't have the automatic area selection you get in other CAD applications, but picking lines does work. As an example: i.imgur.com/ETcEyvc.png Most of the features of this camera grip are extruded from the master sketch. You can see the shape binder that was created when I selected the curves of the "rim" and padded it.
Thank you for the interview! By the way, English from an Italian and Asian Guy is the best to understand as German 😉 Still used realthunders version and can claim that it is a a milestone of improvements especially for solving the topology problem.
Lol, thank you for your kind words. I sicearly believe that Reathunder's English is on another level tough. I particularly like the way he writes documentation in a extremely clear and clean way. This shows the patronage of the language.
It's a fantastic job. I'm just beggining in arch/draft of the main branch and there is so much i miss to be productive. The new rendering , shaders, lighting.. It's just a base.
Such a nice video to see and thanks to both of you for this. I hope you keep making such interaction video with RT and post it here!. Really liked multiple solid feature, because salome meca uses open-cascade too, and its shaper module can extrude multiple objects. Good that ot works in freecad. Hope to reach RT level someday to contribute to freecad.
No joke, I mean I'm an utilitarian as much as the next guy, but the Shadow feature is the one I liked the most about realthunder's branch. not the actual shadow itself per se, but the persistent lighting. like ... usually in FreeCAD you have a normal map that's applied from the view vector. it shades regions so you can better visualise curvature. but the lighting is ALWAYS aligned to the view. that is ... if you have a sphere, and you rotate it around, it will look exactly the same. which is sometimes cpnfusing for complex models. the world-aligned lighting introduced in the Shadow feature is SOOOOOOO COMFORTABLE it's one of those things you have to see for yourself to believe
Seems awesome, bravo and thanks to Zheng Lei and OficineRobotica ! BTW where can us find the information tutorial to use all his new implemented features ?
@@OficineRobotica ha ha ha ok, I understand your dilemma ;-) Maybe a quick text or pdf file just listing those new features and how to activate them, waiting your more built videos ?
You can read more about the pie menu in this thread forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=48651&start=10 It is one of RT's additions that I just can't live whithbought.
Real Thunder will be GM of FreeCAD, if such a talented guy was able to deligate, just imagine the possibilities. As post industry consultant - I say to future readers in industry 'support FreeCAD, The biggest bottle neck in innovation is innovation'. The reality is if designers didnt have to re-learn software package after software , there would greater productivity from the get go. FreeCAD needs to practice this philosophy internally also. Promote realthunder stop holding him back!
Those files at the beginning of the video: the CNC, the hydrobrake, the F15LandingGear (I don't believe it's actually F16 landing gear!). Are they available somewhere? I crave to find some real world complex FreeCAD files… just to study. To look how people do complex stuff. Can I get any of those somewhere? Thanks!
Git support is huge! It works very well for OpenSCAD but I had no idea that it would be usable in FC. I pretty much always have git running in a few Yakuake terminals.
Realthunder uses DiligentGraphics as his library of choice because of the active development and extended capabilities. Also he mentioned that unfortunately BGFX has some compatibility problems with QT and that is a show stopper for BGFX.
Please skip bgfx which has evolved from the D3D 9 era to its current state and is not designed for modern APIs but instead translates a more traditional graphics device abstraction down to them.
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Fantastic interview! Super nice to get this level of insight from Realthunder who is putting in an amazing amount of work to make FreeCAD a first class development. Exciting times for 0.20!
Great interview OficineRobotica and Fantastic work Realthunder. Free Education and educational tools such as Freecad will ultimately unchain the corporate strangle hold on human ingenuity. Your talented contributions along with others is greatly respected. Thank you.
If only corporate strangle could be defeated only with free education and software, If only! But hey are tools of freedom so they must be sustained.
Thanks for all your excellent work RealThunder!
Oh, man! This is awesome! A 30 minute long video with a really important developer with a very beautiful presentation! I am goint to download Zheng's branch now. Many of the improvements mentioned in the video are the matters I was missing. Thank you!
Hello Zheng, nice to see you in person. great fan of FreeCAD and especially your branch. Excellent work!
Watched this as part of FOSDEM, and it's a great video! Really waiting for topological naming fix to hit the master branch! 🤩
Topological naming FIX 🍾
Hopefully it'll be merged soon.. On my workflow (learned from commercial cads), this has been one of biggest drawbacks when doing iterations in design. Great to see some future plans.
Yes, The TNP is indeed a big hurdle for users and coders alike. It is nice to see him taking on such a huge task.
@@OficineRobotica It would be really useful if the incompatibilities between Real Thunder's solution for the TNP and master branch could be resolved before any further feature development takes place. As discussion on the forum indicates it is potentially more important to preserve the ability to maintain stability in FreeCAD core than to introduce changes that threaten that stability.
Sadly I do not have the skills to contribute technically but it seems that Real Thunder's fix introduces complications that make it not yet practical to incorporate into the master branch. I hope Real Thunder can help the main developers to overcome these complications soon, even if it means slowing development of further changes in his branch.
@@paulreader1777 at the moment the new topo naming algo is being merged and that is the foundation of bringing in all the other inhancements. Slowly everything is getting in to master. The topo naming algorithm is one of the points where the compatibility breaks so once the merge is finished the sitiation will improve a lot
I'm so chuffed to hear someone as smart as Zheng Lei also found FreeCAD challenging to learn to use.
Great stuff! Just started using FreeCAD again for first time since 2015. Definitely taking this branch for a spin.
Very good videos this channel has elaborated.
I'm from Brazil.
Excellent work. I can't wait until FreeCAD 1.0
Hello RealThunder, Your FreeCAD branch really helped in Topological naming issue. Thanks Great Work.
Fantastic, thank you to the entire community working behind freecad (all branches)!
Hello OR and Hello RealThunder. Very good to be meeting you. I already know you from the Assembly 3 Preview forum. The video initiative is really cool. Realthunder, congratulations for your job with the Assembly 3 and your Freecad version.
Great watch and very much looking forward to all these new features!
Thanks for this overview of the FreeCAD future features, very promising. I think your work will be indebted for a lot of new users. I enjoy any new video and any new feature you release. Thanks a lot!
Thank you x100 Real Thunder!
Its great to see the real RealThunder! You're doing great work!
Awesome video. Waiting for the time that FreeCAD becomes as understandable as commercial parametric CAD.
Thank you RealThunder! You are a master developer!
I would pay for some professional training videos covering this new branch. The current interface definitely makes FreeCAD hard to use especially being a new user in the CAD world.
Well, good support and tutorials is what made Blender so popular so the community is working to take the same path.
JockoEngineering on YT... That's how i learned although I had previous experience in Inventor. FreeCAD is so worth to learn dude. RealThunder is the Elon Musk of opensource xD. I use freeCAD for all my modeling (studying mech. engineering). Only thing that lacks in freeCAD is the TechDRAW workbench because it defaults to ASME style of dimensioning and stuff and my school demands I use our local standards... Other than that FreeCAD is superior IMO.
@@sgtbigpoop8559 Question? Is it possible to have more than 1 profile in a sketch yet? It was the single biggest reason I couln't switch over.
@@KentoCommenT Do you mean performing operations on different parts of a sketch? Like extruding the exterior lines of the sketch, then cutting holes using interior parts of the sketch? If so, you can do this currently by selecting the lines you desire and performing an operation. FreeCAD will generate a shapebinder automatically for that operation from the lines you selected. It doesn't have the automatic area selection you get in other CAD applications, but picking lines does work.
As an example: i.imgur.com/ETcEyvc.png
Most of the features of this camera grip are extruded from the master sketch. You can see the shape binder that was created when I selected the curves of the "rim" and padded it.
Thank you for the interview! By the way, English from an Italian and Asian Guy is the best to understand as German 😉
Still used realthunders version and can claim that it is a a milestone of improvements especially for solving the topology problem.
Lol, thank you for your kind words. I sicearly believe that Reathunder's English is on another level tough. I particularly like the way he writes documentation in a extremely clear and clean way. This shows the patronage of the language.
Thanks for all the work involved in this huge project. Hope all this comes to be normal in freeCAD regardless of platform or versions.
It's a fantastic job. I'm just beggining in arch/draft of the main branch and there is so much i miss to be productive.
The new rendering , shaders, lighting.. It's just a base.
impressive work realthunder!!
This man is very interesting as his work. I'm fan of this talented man. Thanks for sharing.
This guy really helps to improve freecad👌
Such a nice video to see and thanks to both of you for this. I hope you keep making such interaction video with RT and post it here!.
Really liked multiple solid feature, because salome meca uses open-cascade too, and its shaper module can extrude multiple objects. Good that ot works in freecad. Hope to reach RT level someday to contribute to freecad.
Impressive new features. Looking forward to them being adopted.
Wondeful! Incredibly!
Absolutely awesome
No joke, I mean I'm an utilitarian as much as the next guy, but the Shadow feature is the one I liked the most about realthunder's branch.
not the actual shadow itself per se, but the persistent lighting. like ... usually in FreeCAD you have a normal map that's applied from the view vector. it shades regions so you can better visualise curvature. but the lighting is ALWAYS aligned to the view. that is ... if you have a sphere, and you rotate it around, it will look exactly the same. which is sometimes cpnfusing for complex models. the world-aligned lighting introduced in the Shadow feature is SOOOOOOO COMFORTABLE
it's one of those things you have to see for yourself to believe
The way you have putted this in to words is just perfect. I completely agree with you.
I'm so excited about FreeCAD right now!
Me too ... and there are so many more developments on the way ;)
Amazing work !
This dude is such a boss.
Seems awesome, bravo and thanks to Zheng Lei and OficineRobotica ! BTW where can us find the information tutorial to use all his new implemented features ?
I'm doing my best to provide videos about the new features but RT is a coding machine , sometimes is hard to keep up lol
@@OficineRobotica ha ha ha ok, I understand your dilemma ;-) Maybe a quick text or pdf file just listing those new features and how to activate them, waiting your more built videos ?
The rotary selection feature looks like what Blender uses.
You can read more about the pie menu in this thread forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=48651&start=10 It is one of RT's additions that I just can't live whithbought.
Real Thunder will be GM of FreeCAD, if such a talented guy was able to deligate, just imagine the possibilities.
As post industry consultant - I say to future readers in industry 'support FreeCAD, The biggest bottle neck in innovation is innovation'. The reality is if designers didnt have to re-learn software package after software , there would greater productivity from the get go.
FreeCAD needs to practice this philosophy internally also. Promote realthunder stop holding him back!
Those files at the beginning of the video: the CNC, the hydrobrake, the F15LandingGear (I don't believe it's actually F16 landing gear!). Are they available somewhere? I crave to find some real world complex FreeCAD files… just to study. To look how people do complex stuff. Can I get any of those somewhere? Thanks!
Git support is huge! It works very well for OpenSCAD but I had no idea that it would be usable in FC. I pretty much always have git running in a few Yakuake terminals.
31:00 How about upgrading to latest Qt and using their low-level graphics API abstraction?
Great work! keep it up :)
Thank you so much for your support. It really means allot.
At first I thought the voice was software generated.
This is great. Could you make it possible to CAM (PATH workbench) directly on a mesh object (STL) without having to convert it to solid first?
I think that is a question more appropriate for the forum. I'm not all that knowledgeable about path yet.
Hi, can you show us how use jupyter notebook with freecad. Thanks in advance.
I will surely do a video about that feature.
for future me 25:20 discussion about new scene graph implementations
:) You too?
29:28 So, in the end which graphic library will be used? DiligentGraphics or BGFX?
Realthunder uses DiligentGraphics as his library of choice because of the active development and extended capabilities. Also he mentioned that unfortunately BGFX has some compatibility problems with QT and that is a show stopper for BGFX.
@@OficineRobotica It is BGFX better than DiligentGraphics?
Please skip bgfx which has evolved from the D3D 9 era to its current state and is not designed for modern APIs but instead translates a more traditional graphics device abstraction down to them.
Official Freecad sucks. FC3A is waaaaay better.