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First of all a WELCOME to the new Patreons!
Since we passed the $400 mark I will set up a monthly supporter only live stream. My public live streams are overwhelmingly crowded and I'm not able to catch up with the chat. The private live stream should give us the opportunity to discuss things. Any suggestions what we could do next stream?
Few of you might have noticed, I sneakingly started memberships for my channel. It was enabled while we were streaming a week ago. The members will simply get the same updates as you here. However, the price is fixed to $5 of which I receive 70% and there is no way to send direct messages, so you might want to stay here.
The CRT BOY project was advancing well until tonight.

FreeCAD seems not to be optimized on more complex projects. The reaction time is like 30sec for a change of a chamfer at the end. I managed to get a beta design finished tonight and wanted to print it (8h print) while I was sleeping. Woke up tomorrow just to find my printer broken. The heating element is not heating anymore :-(
Need to troubleshoot this before I can continue.

Still was able to get an impression with the broken print how the result will look like. Doesn't look ergonomic yet but the controller parts fit!

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Sebastian Moder

You could try Fusion360. It’s free for makers/startups. Keep on your good work! It’s nice to see the patreon support growing. :-)

bitluni

I tried fusion once it sucked.. I might try again. It's not free.. it costs your soul!

Sebastian Moder

So I’m without a soul now ;-) yeah it’s not open source „free“ that is true. It’s the only CAD software I ever tried so I have no comparison. It’s working for me ;-)

bitluni

The only benefit I see not using blender to keep the pritives and operations parametric. FreeCad was a bit disappointing on this regard.. but I learned a lot how the constraints eork and such..

Sebastian Moder

I use constraints a lot (now... after messing a few projects xD) so I can quickly change something without messing the whole project. Was that the reason you switched to FreeCAD? I missed why you changed to it.

bitluni

Comments are complaining every time when I'm using blender. I wanted to give some free CAD tools a chance. It's also a bit of a hassle to make adjustments since it's not really parametric in blender

bitluni

The fault of the printer was caused by a broken thermistor. I try to replace it asap.

none

Interested iin buying phone carcass minus the AV unit