It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that ...

The folks at RepRap Ltd have released a new script that generates very strong 3D printable beams. Inspired by the availability of belt 3D printers, a script was developed to generate 3D models of long ...

FreeCAD has been updated to version 1.1. The open-source 3D CAD tool has become increasingly popular in recent times, likely due to a combination of increasing use of desktop 3D printers and rising ...

Solidworks and Inventor receive a lot of attention, and so we tend to forget the surprising number of other MCAD programs that exist. They are not fly-by-nighters – many have been around for more than ...

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I am organizing a workbench repo and noticed that to have the code inside of a folder, the folder has to be lowercase freecad. This is a bit ugly solution. An ugly workround would be to place some ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

What exactly is Python and what is MicroPython? The major differences between both languages. Some use cases for each. As difficult as it is to imagine, the Python programming language made its ...

Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...