Solvespace Alternatives

solvespace reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Sep 2024

  To add to delhanty's reply, a "degree of freedom" can be thought of as a dimension of the drawing that can be changed or "stretched" or moved without violating a constraint. In a CAD program, a fully constrained drawing can't be freely stretched or dragged around.

  It's very intuitive if you play around with a CAD program for a bit. There is a free (GPLv3) 2D and 3D CAD program called Solvespace (https://solvespace.com/) that is probably easiest one to obtain and learn. There are detailed tutorials on the website, and you could probably download it and finish the first tutorial in an hour.

• Ask HN: How does modern FreeCAD compare with Solidworks?
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2024
• CADmium: A Local-First CAD Program Built for the Browser
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2024

  https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/453#issuecom...

  I know how to do it better now, but ugh... not enough time.

• Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024

  Can second this!

  However, I would recommend https://solvespace.com! It hits a sweet spot between features vs complexity/learning effort.

• My favorite code comment/rant
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2024
• Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2023

  We use rebase on solvespace, along with sensible squashing so most commits along master are pretty self contained. You can see the clean history here:

  https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/commits/master/

• A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2023

  I changed a behavior to the "more standard" one because it felt obviously right. This was a 3 line change. But the was enough backlash right there in the pull request. So I spent a couple hours remembering how to add a configuration option to keep the old way for those guys:

  https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/pull/1425

• RattleCAD
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023

  > If you like Linkage, you might also like Solvespace.

  No, I mean Brent Curry's Linkage[1] bicycle design software, not David Rector's Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator[2].

  You should read Wikipedia article.[0]

  N.B. About SolveSpace, as I'm its experienced user[youtube,patreon], I may say next: yes, it could be used for bike mockup, as any other CAD, but it still has a lot of limitations and even does not export correct STEP files yet[3], and in FreeCAD such STEP could fixed only partially.[video]

  So, for serious 3D CAD work I highly recommend use FreeCAD (and LibreCAD for 2D CAD work) instead of SolveSpace, and use SolveSpace only as a helper tool like a calc or as a notepad for noting ideas.

  About Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator, it is only useful for planar (2D) kinematics analyze, and if You are looking an alternative for it take a look on Pyslvs[4], that is in part based on SolveSpace's solver.

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rattleCAD#History

  [1] https://bikechecker.com/

  [2] https://blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mechanism-designer-and-...

  [3] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/206

  [4] https://github.com/KmolYuan/Pyslvs-UI

  [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3LJMeqUDrU

  [youtube] https://www.youtube.com/@appsoft

  [patreon] https://patreon.com/app4soft

• SolveSpace has been ported to Qt
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023
• Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
  37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023

  C++ this file covers all the math for working with NURBS curves and surfaces:

  https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/blob/master/src/srf...

  There is a lot more in other files - triangulation, booleans, creation - but the core math functions are there in very readable form.

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