• @[email protected]
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    1810 months ago

    It’s just the simplest way to explain extrusion.

    “A profile through which material is pushed, forming a part of uniform section and indeterminate length” just confuses people. But then you say “ya know those playdoh things?” And they instantly understand.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      Working with Catia is the other way around, no amount of documentation is complex enough that you really understand what something does or can do.

      • @aidanOP
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        610 months ago

        Catia

        I’ve been slightly involved in the CAD space, have tried Fusion, Inventor, AutoCAD, OpenSCAD, and Blender- even edited some G-Code by hand. But, I have never once heard of that.

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          610 months ago

          It’s a software that is used extensively in aerospace and car industries. It’s also ludicrous how expensive the licenses are.

          It’s hard to beat for completeness of functions but also for complexity.

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          110 months ago

          It’s made by Seimens, the industrial equipment manufacturer. IIRC it’s one of the oldest CAD systems there is, from the 80s when they started developing it in house for their own use.