Dune 3D Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master

  A UI which seems a bit more in-line w/ contemporary expectations is Dune 3D: https://dune3d.org/ which I find a little less confusing than the traditional 3D CAD packages I've tried (and failed to learn) --- at least for Dune 3D I've made it through the tutorial successfully. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything

  Components are pretty easily done via pick-and-place, which was just demonstrated on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZ0qpPN1uk once one can make traces in 3D as part of a case/shell/frame/structure things get _very_ interesting --- consider that one electronics designer actually worked up a 3D CAD system: https://dune3d.org/ just for making 3D printed enclosures: >My primary use case for 3D CAD is... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Parametric CAD in Rust

  Notably the library was used (at least for a while) in the development of Dune 3D: https://dune3d.org/ but then the author used the source directly as noted in the Github footnote: >I ended up directly using solvespace's solver instead of the suggested wrapper code since it didn't expose all of the features I needed. I also had to patch the solver to make it sufficiently fast for the kinds of equations I was... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Blender 5.0 Released

  Another opensource CAD tool to look at is Dune 3D: https://dune3d.org/ which has been discussed here in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37979758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975958 which if it just had parameters/scripting would have a lot more potential. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Drafting Software Recommendation

  Note for Blender there is: https://www.cadsketcher.com/ That said, if you want 3D CAD, the simplest option is probably: https://dune3d.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering

  I don't think this proposal addresses the most important problems in mechanical CAD. Have a look at Dune3D: https://dune3d.org/ https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/why-another-3d-cad.html. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

  I've been trying to make this sort of thing more tractable by modeling the movement of tooling in a CNC machine so as to make 3D parts using Python in OpenSCAD (https://pythonscad.org/): https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview --- if you haven't tried that, I'd highly recommend it. The usual way to get started w/ molding is to make a vacuum molding machine: https://makezine.com/projects/diy-injection-molding (I... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

  For folks who want a regular (not low-poly) modeler which is a small/light-weight download, Dune 3D seems the best thing to try: https://dune3d.org/ Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37979758 The other notable thing to try is Solvespace or maybe NASA's Open Vehicle SketchPad (for opensource). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• We are shutting down the Ondsel FreeCAD business

  Dune 3D is not too far away from that: https://dune3d.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Hobby CAD, CNC machining, and resin casting

  Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41467268 This was a resource which was mentioned on the Shapeoko wiki --- while it's off-line, it's still on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20211127090321/https://wiki.shapeoko.com/ Since then, some of those pages have been made available on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/hobbycnc/wiki/index https://old.reddit.com/r/shapeoko/wiki (ob.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• I Revived 3-Axis CNC Mill G-Code Simulator

  FreeCAD and its CAM Workbench? For the light version maybe Solvespace? I'm still amazed by Dune 3D: https://dune3d.org/ where the Github page has the footnote: >I ended up directly using solvespace's solver instead of the suggested wrapper code since it didn't expose all of the features I needed. I also had to patch the solver to make it sufficiently fast for the kinds of equations I was generating by symbolically... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out

  I actually bought Plasticity early on, but bailed, because I found the UI confusing. I was a bit more successful with Dune3D: https://dune3d.org (see the discussion I made on Github about working through the tutorial). That said, OpenSCAD is more my speed, and I've been using it for a long while now, and have even gotten started on a library for the new OpenPythonSCAD, Python-enabled fork: https://pythonscad.org... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD

  In addition to Solvespace there is the nascent (but surprisingly polished): https://dune3d.org/ the Github page of which has the following footnote: >I ended up directly using solvespace's solver instead of the suggested wrapper code since it didn't expose all of the features I needed. I also had to patch the solver to make it sufficiently fast for the kinds of equations I was generating by symbolically solving... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Dune 3D 1.1.0 Released

  The footnote from the main page: https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d and documentation: https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago