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by marmakoide 640 days ago
Fixing the topological naming issue, in the mainline, what a game changer.

I am using Freecad for Actual Real Things. I learned to work around the topological naming issue, but it cost me time, and it can make parametric models quite brittle (ie. a minor change can break the model).
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guerby 640 days ago
Was curious about the issue, found this: https://wiki.freecad.org/Topological_naming_problem
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jononor 640 days ago
Yeah I am very much looking forward to that. Over the last 10 years I have made a couple of hundreds of designs in FreeCAD that I have manufactured in smal scale - with FDM/SLA/SLS 3d printing, CO2/fiber laser, and CNC milling in woods/plastics/metals. So it has been plenty productive. But quite often doing workarounds for the topological naming problem, either preemptively or corrective. Maybe I will start to teach it again to others :)
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