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CAD should be free and easy to learn. Solidworks costs 2000+ per user per year and NX Siemens costs 10,000+ user per year (industry standard tools). It’s embarrassing how paywalled CAD is compared to coding.- every mechanical engineer needs hands-on experience with milling, turning, cnc, injection molding etc. designing parts you've never actually made is how you get terrible dfm and frustrated machinists
- thank you claudeyou can't vibe code a bridge
- injection molding is the most underrated process and i'm tired of pretending it's not. while everyone obsesses over 3d printing, injection molding is out here making literally everything in your house for pennies per part. respect the og 🔥
- btw, chatgpt is text-to-cad now. at least it is for anything 3d printable/mesh file. no b-rep/step version yet
- exciting announcement! we’re building an AI device that looks like jewelry. hardware is hard, everyone knows that. but AI shouldn’t stay trapped in a text box - it needs to move with us. follow our journey!
- assembly line workers know things engineers don't: which screws always fall, where fingers can't reach, and why that 'simple' design takes 20 minutes to build.
- manufacturing engineering is the art of taking a perfectly good design and figuring out seventeen different ways it's impossible to actually make. design engineers create beautiful cad models that exist only in theoretical perfect worlds where materials have no grain structure,
- new cad tool just dropped - fishcad.com 🐟 type words → get 3d models. upload images → get 3d models. no headaches. just design. buy it instantly on our website too! try it! fishcad.com
- 3d printing is for when you need 50 prototypes tomorrow and don't mind paying 20 dollars per part while injection molding is for when you need 50,000 parts next month and the tooling costs more than a tesla but each part costs 50 cents
- Forked FreeCAD and made a “cursor for cad” prototype that can export STEP files with iterable geometry. I’m a mechanical engineer so I know how users would actually interact with this + what’s needed who wants to give me money to build this /collab there’s a lot more to be done
- if your part can't be made on a 3-axis mill you're probably overdesigning it. 5-axis machining is for aerospace and medical implants, not your startup's housing. every undercut and internal feature doubles your cost and lead time. design for manufacturing isn't a suggestion, it's
