Kerv Automotive looks more fun.

Best I know of is TechDraw but that may not be as automated as you’d like. You essentially take the shapes and label the dimensions you want to show. Shapes/dimensions can be refreshed, likely also through a macro for multiple sheets if you need that.

I don’t know the UI by memory but the flow is along the lines of: create TechDraw sheet; set scale; import shape; choose views of shape (top, front, …); add dimensions. This can be exported and printed.

I think you can also save the current view of a sketch (save image or such in the menu?) but have not tried it and don’t know how repeatable that is and if you’ll run out of coloured ink in no time.

Looking forward to look at your attached designs!

If you’ve made multiple bodies, you can place them by selecting the body in the tree view. Then open the scary property view, open the data tab, Base, Placement, Position.

You can scroll to roughly put things in position but I’d use a formula in there so you can model in place and have a visual for each configuration.

If you want to reuse a body for left/right you could make a clone or start thinking about the assembly workbench

The data tab contains interesting info. Open it from time to time so it feels less scary. It allows to set the properties from a pad or update constraints from a sketch quickly. Moving a sketch around can be strange though as the axes are relative to the sketch’s coordinates.

The post title says “ever” rather than “2025”. It’s cool for 2025 and we may get some interesting others, but many here will have ran it on something slower at some point.

That’s great!

I’d create one body (the blue icon) per shape you want to cut. You can reference the same spreadsheet.

If you want to reference geometry from another body, activate the body where you want to use it (doubleclick in the hierarchy), select the face of the other body, and use the subshape binder (the green icon with red dots I think). Calculating everything from the spreadsheet is the more stable option.

Looking forward to see what you come up with if you choose to share it.

There is now a default assembly workbench. You don’t need it for this. It is mostly handy to verify your design.

Assuming endless possible values: set up a spreadsheet, define an alias (top right) for the relevant values, and use that in your sketches and extrudes.

You could model the various bodies in place in the right orientation and make do without any assembly as there are moving parts too. The new assembly workbench is nice to use though so it’s worth trying it out.

The idea of an Archive is to have the thoughts collected for reference somewhere regardless of source. I mark tasks with Rejected (will not do) or Retired (no value anymore, too late) because I find it more expressive than Archived information.

Never would work too.

You can manually edit the gcode to see if printing white first works out better. Then search for a more repeatable solution if you often re-slice.

Manipulating gcode looks intimidating the first time but it’s really not that crazy. Cura adds comments to the gcode and you can look up the codes otherwise, I expect Pusa Slicer to do the same. You want to move the whole printing sequence of the white nozzle before the printing sequence of the second black one on the first layer. Keep the setup (heating etc) before that.

We have linux-magazine delivered to the office.

The articles are easy to read, I can’t remember having to look up background knowledge but I’ve been using Linux for decades now. The articles generally teach you something practical. I don’t read all of it but what I read I often like. Just lacks depth from time to time.

Most people don’t visit the office often I think, but it’s there. I tend to take some home and bring them back.

I needed this comment. I thought it was hyperbole.

Depends on the use.

The screen protector serves as a blue light filter too, it’s cheaper than a display, and fairly thin. That’s a straightforward addition for my use but if you don’t have issues with your phone dropping then you could certainly do without.

I very much dislike cases and loved the PH-1 for stating that a phone should be solid enough without a case (sadly it did not survive a 50cm drop on a floor so it did not hold up in practice). If you don’t have much issues with your phone dropping then not having a case makes it so much nicer.

I take more risk holding my phone than I should which means it falls more than average. The price I have to pay is a screen protector and cover. Replacing the display should be easy, but it’d also be wasteful.

I had to replace parts on my FP5. It fell on very bad asphalt at speed whilst cycling in a foreign country. The glass on the camera modules scattered. Display protector broke and the case got some good damage. I was instantly calmed realising it is a FairPhone and knowing I could order replacement parts.

Repairs were trivial and it feels good to have created just a tiny amount of e-waste instead of a large amount. The black aluminium case has some war wounds (scratches) reminding me of the trip.

I have no comparison but was in a similar boat when the FP5 launched. I was not sure how long my phone’s cracked display would last. I installed e/OS manually at the time (a beta release) and can’t remember any substantial issues. I can’t compare with a preinstalled version because I did not order that.

I think there’s a forum. Perhaps ask there if they know when they’ll be back in stock?

Not that I know of. I don’t use any Google apps so I would not know of those. My bank app works. I use OSM& for maps but OrganicMaps is nicer. e/OS ships with MagicEarth which worked fine but is not FOSS. Search for locations (eg: shops) is infinitely better on Google Maps but I’m happy not to be stalked anymore.

Sometimes apps from the Play Store stop updating. It seems they find workarounds and get that running again after a while so then updates come through again. Has not been an issue so far. There’s also no Google Assistant and I have not found a good AI helper based on speech.

All in all it’s a good experience and I’m super happy I can use it. It just feels so much better to have a phone which blocks trackers in apps and not being spied on.

Holding a stock phone will feel like holding poop afterwards though. Like, you can hold it and wash your hands after, I guess, but you don’t want to touch it unless you really have to. It’s just dirty.

Use it as a daily driver. Works fine. Feels much more hygienic than stock Android.

I don’t think Xerox invented the computer mouse. It was first drawn out by Douglass Engelbart and presented to the public in the 1968 presentation “Augmenting the Human Intellect” (you can watch it on the present day, it was recorded).

It was my understanding (which I did not verify) that this was picked up by Xerox and others and that windowing systems evolved from there on with Xerox leading towards Desktop Publishing.