I run 16 Bit Virtual Studios. You can find more reviews from me on YouTube youtube.com/@16bitvirtual or other social media @16bitvirtual, and we sell our 3D Printed stuff on 16bitstore.com

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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I work in IT at a company who uses outlook, but has locked down the phones so the users can’t install anything.

    I can say without a reason of the doubt that outlook on Android is hateful.

    It’s still a 2010 era android app with non of the desktop features working. Like the signature not syncing with your saved ones. And focused inbox hiding important emails.

    But since the phones are locked down. These dark patten ads are twice as annoying since the user thinks there phone is broken. They just removed the Microsoft 2fa prompts on setup. But I saw this and almost cried.

    Don’t assume that users are smart enough to read or understand how this works. They press buttons until it works. If we didn’t force google play to not allow edge to download our users would’ve been in a much harder situation to support.





  • The bunny 20-30 minutes since I don’t use Eclipses too much, and how to do Eclipse arcs to make a solid outline. I’d say if I was more familiar it should take less time. Since this Bunny looks way rougher than I intended too, but it was a proof of concept.

    The interception geometry issue was the biggest learning hurdle for FreeCAD for myself. However since moving I’ve grown to prefer it since it avoid voids being created by tiny intersections which are difficult to see. For example for the skatch bellow, if you are not careful you may miss the middle and create a random hole in your model. Had this on many of my earliest designs and spent a lot of time trying to fix it since the software wouldn’t render out the shape right.

    I also I love how FreeCAD changes the color of a sketch’s lines green and a brighter green when everything is contained. I see it like a game and it forces me to think about how the shape should be rather than what’s close enough to what I need.

    That said, while I was like you and worked with a single sketch and padded, pushes and constrained my way to make the model I needed. FreeCAD does like you import existing geometry into a design. In the current BETA they are allowing that geometry to even be constructor geometry to make modeling easier. So you can continue to base your current sketch upon the previous one, and it’ll update as you move along.

    While it’s not in a single sketch, I found doing it this way makes it much easier for myself to maintain a model and go back into it to fix parts of it when needed.

    I also know FreeCAD isn’t for everyone, and there are hurdles to move to it. But I personally found it works with my workflow, and not being tied to yearly licenses is a relief for me.