As There may be doubts as for what an Assembly Workbench may be, is the equivalent of the animation workbench, except instead of animating, it allow us to put all the pieces we made together and see if they fit and interact correctly. It usually has some sort of toggleable physics and limited interactivity.
FreeCAD’s Assembly is too young to have amazing examples, but wintergattan made a demonstration of Fussion 360 assembly brought to its knees with his amazing marble machine:
Thanks for the information. It looks like FreeCAD is great for intricate designs, probably more than I need. Being able to run a script is really useful. I used something like that at work years ago, a program called Gambit. It came with a fluid dynamics simulator called FIDAP, and was quite like what you describe. It did require meshing the interior of objects for where the fluid would flow. I found it useful to download the script, tweak it, then run it again. That said, it was pretty primitive. And frustrating at times.
They don’t need to be intrincate, but what FreeCAD does good is precise. The fact you can go back and forth and change measurements at any point makes it really good at iterating designs for real life manufacture.
On the other hand, FreeCAD sucks at doing organic designs, or anything that has to be exported for low-poly usage, or doing animations. Cannot do texturing well, forget about rendering things… So basically, if it needs to stay within the confines of a computer, FreeCAD is not your tool.
Well… I’m sad for whoever bought the product but seems is more like Wil stopped keeping up with Amazon API, and because it was a closed-sourced, propietary, commercial software, and never open-sourced it, after 3 years of not releasing real updates, the API is now desynced.
So… Is this enshitification or just “you buy commercial software that is at the end of its life and not supported, you get what you buy?”
Open Source alernative that seems to be still working, albeit wonky, as many Open Source Sofware does.
Email I received today:
Content older than one year will be deleted starting January 28th, 2025
This is a notice that starting January 28th, 2025, messages and files older than one year will be deleted from your free workspace if you remain on the free Slack plan. To retain access to content older than a year, your workspace needs to be on a Slack paid plan. Slack plans can be reviewed on our plan page.If your team chooses to upgrade to a paid plan after the policy goes into effect, you will not be able to recover any content that is deleted under our new policy.
Slack’s policy change for free workspaces
In June 2024 we announced that we have changed our policy for free workspace message and file storage. Content in free workspaces—including messages, files, and other content—that is older than a year will be deleted. Free workspaces will continue to have full access to the past 90 days of message history and file storage.This change does not impact workspaces on other Slack plans, such as Slack Pro.
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What’s that squeaking noise? Is that the freemium treadmill I hear?
My workplace deletes emails and Teams messages i think a year old, maybe slightly past a year, as part of our data retention policy. There are ways around it, like if you know you’ll need certain communication you can just save the email into a folder or save it as a PDF. There have been annoyances over losing older emails that would’ve been useful, but ideally that important stuff should be documented elsewhere anyway (as far as my company goes at least). It takes an adjustment but it’s not that bad tbh
Depending on the data, we are required by law to retain all our records for a certain period of time, which definitely exceeds a year in many cases (mostly around 5 years, if I’m reading these regulations right). This change means that groups on campus would not be allowed to use free Slack at all, or at best would have to severely limit exactly what they can discuss on the platform.
If you have data governance issues, it seems like free slack is a really bad idea anyway.
Yeah, our “official” slack has to be Enterprise for some data compliance reason. Not even pro is adequate in terms of data governance according to the data governance minds.
Yeah, I remember that Enterprise gave you roles with full access to all chats and channels, and some other compliance features. I kinda miss it now I’m forced to use teams 
I genuinely think that if Duckduckgo didn’t have that stupid name that is hard to type in and is a reference that only means something to English speakers,* it would have taken a huge chunk out of Google’s market share already.
* Literally the only reason that I know it even is a reference is because the Simpsons mentioned Duck Duck Goose at some point. If I didn’t know that, I would be wondering why it had chosen a stupid incomprehensible name rather than a stupid childish and ultra regional specific name
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already an extension putting it back.
