material-shell VS FreeCAD_assembly3

Compare material-shell vs FreeCAD_assembly3 and see what are their differences.

material-shell

A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone. (by material-shell)

FreeCAD_assembly3

Experimental attempt for the next generation assembly workbench for FreeCAD (by realthunder)
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material-shell FreeCAD_assembly3
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7,219 861
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5.4 4.4
3 months ago 28 days ago
TypeScript Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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material-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of material-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.

FreeCAD_assembly3

Posts with mentions or reviews of FreeCAD_assembly3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-15.
  • Kinematic Coupling (Maxwell) Assembly with FreeCAD
    2 projects | /r/FreeCAD | 15 May 2023
    If the general python API isn't enough the assembly3 docs have an interesting example which might give you some ideas for moving objects along within their constraints.
    2 projects | /r/FreeCAD | 15 May 2023
    I was following this part of the wiki
  • Regularly Updated Summary of Merging of Realthunder's FreeCAD Link Branch into Topological Naming Branch?
    3 projects | /r/FreeCAD | 22 Dec 2022
    Take a look: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/wiki/Topological-Naming-Algorithm
  • total FreeCAD newb, can't edit legacy parts
    2 projects | /r/FreeCAD | 19 May 2022
    FreeCAD is still in development and you may have a mismatch of versions. Try .17, .18, .19, and .20 dev versions and try to find the one that doesn't show empty sketches. It may have even been made with the RealThunder branch.
  • 2022 is officially the Year of Linux Gaming
    7 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 15 Apr 2022
  • Blender 3.1
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2022
    FreeCAD's stable release is somewhat painful to use, but when using a development build (I've personally had no trouble) and having gone through the preferences, customization options, and addon list (altogether not too much work), it becomes truly competitive with the other major option, the free-as-in-beer tier of less-than-industry-standard Fusion 360.

    As mentioned before, RealThunder's branch [0] (confusingly also called the RT branch, assembly3 branch, Link Branch, and Link Stage 3) is the most improved. It remedies FreeCAD's most serious drawback, the Topological Naming Problem (TNP), and includes many miscellaneous improvements (which do add up), some merged from other authors. Many of the quality-of-life features will be in the imminent upcoming major release (0.20); sadly, the TNP fix has only been weakly promised for 0.21. FreeCAD's other major issue is the lack of official assembly support. There are four competing addons; RealThunder's branch includes his, Assembly3.

    I often feel that 'bad' UI (especially in free software) is perfectly productive once the user is familiar, but I will admit that difference in aesthetics in FreeCAD from switching themes, tweaking settings, and rearranging toolbars and panels is not small. I'm not sure of the authorship of each, but UI improvements in RealThunder's branch include animated camera snapping and panel autohide/transparency. The drop-down list for workbench switching is not ideal. Use the tab bar addon, custom keyboard shortcut, or one of the two compatible pie menu implementations. The Pie Menu addon can change based on the types of selected objects; the pie menu in RealThunder's branch has workbench-based context.

    FreeCAD's keyboard shortcuts are standard, though I'll express a peeve I have with all 3D software and indeed almost all (mostly design) software where one hand goes on the keyboard and another on the mouse: shortcuts arranged mnemonically and thus spread across the keyboard ease learning but are terrible for skilled use. I mean, if I have to hunt with one hand for a key under my desk, I might as well use the toolbar/menustrip/ribbon! Blender does seem to be an exception, though. Seems like the rest could take a hint from gaming (notably MOBAs).

    [0] might require a previous normal install for dependencies or MSVC DLL fiddling https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases

  • Advice for a beginner?
    2 projects | /r/FreeCAD | 5 Jan 2022
    You can find realthunder's version of FreeCAD which is featured in these videos and includes Assembly3, here: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases
  • FOSS engineering CAD software?
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 2 Jan 2022
    Realthunder's fork fixes it: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 2 Jan 2022
  • SolveSpace — Computer Aided Design Made Easy on Twitter (x-post from r/SolveSpace)
    3 projects | /r/FreeCAD | 19 Dec 2021
    Not for topographical topology naming, but for "Assembly3 Workbench" (which is core of LinkStage3).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing material-shell and FreeCAD_assembly3 you can also consider the following projects:

PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell

FreeCAD - This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.

FreeCAD - Link branch FreeCAD

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.

gnome-gesture-improvements - Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11

solvespace - Parametric 2d/3d CAD

forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]

Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

materia-theme - A Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments

taskwarrior-tui - `taskwarrior-tui`: A terminal user interface for taskwarrior