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I changed my style a lot when designig parts. In Fusion360 most of the stuff was more organic with lots of illets and guided lofts etc. Now that I transitioned to SolveSpace my parts got a lot edgier an less filleted because of the missing features. Currently I draw a lot of the rounded edges in 2D. One advantage of this is that designs don´t fail as often on recompute because you accidentaly referenced one of those features and they cant be redrawn for example. Disadvantage is that 3D prints arent as strong in some cases with those missing "stress transitioners"
Lucky enough I didnt came along the need to draw a loft just yet but I also drew a lot less complex stuff in the last years.
Bridge CNC still needs to be finished. Some parts already revisioned, printed and mounted but the most important part, the part that holds the spindle needs reinforcement. That means a complete redesign of it. Not very pleasant as this model stretches across 3 different CAD tools :D . I tried translatin it to freecad which largely worked but I think I will bring it into Solvespace for further development. Working with STLs is pretty easy there. I can´t import STEP files.
Maybe after my main prject "underbridge-pro" 1.3 is out of the door in february I will finish some of those long term projects for release. Its pretty nice stuff most of the time and its just sad when they dont released in some way or another.
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