Just use Freecad format instead of these stupid translation files.easyw-fc wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 3:06 pm It’s Time to Get Over IGES (from GrabCAD Blog)
https://blog.grabcad.com/blog/2014/10/14/get-over-iges/
But it's not up to us sadly.
Just use Freecad format instead of these stupid translation files.easyw-fc wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 3:06 pm It’s Time to Get Over IGES (from GrabCAD Blog)
https://blog.grabcad.com/blog/2014/10/14/get-over-iges/
When dealing with an outside shop to build your parts, you first need to decide which shop is best suited for the task (data-compatibility, quality, speed, turnaround-time, price).
I dare to disagree. It is completely useless to have an excellent best price shop next door if they cannot handle one of the formats you can deliver. So the first filter would be to rule those out.eajmarceau wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 1:25 am When dealing with an outside shop to build your parts, you first need to decide which shop is best suited for the task (data-compatibility, quality, speed, turnaround-time, price).
Only then ... do you ask that shop to tell you which is the formats that the shop can handle and which they prefer to receive your design data in.
At least you can always install an older Freecad version. You could even write your own update script to update files to newer versions.eajmarceau wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 1:25 am As for choosing a format for long-term neutral-format storage, allowing for the possibility that you might find yourself forced to migrate to a different CAD system at some future date, STEP might be that "archival" format, because even FreeCAD is evolving geometry such that some feature definitions are not forward compatible, and therefore you could not guarantee the import of the FCstd file into the latest FreeCAD and be guaranteed that those files would come in 100%, to then convert to your target system of migration. It all depends on how long do your designs need to live .. untouched .. before they are likely needed to be resurrected for another application/customization.
I grant you that someone ... who has mastered the start-to-finish process of downloading source-code from the GitHub repo and building his own compiled version ... could indeed access those older versions, and build those specific version images ... if they also have access to all the old version libraries for those older languages for the various OSs in question. But is that a realistic expectation of someone who is not so adept, limiting themselves to the usage of pre-built WorlBenches and a few personal macros? I am not sure that would be the case. And these latter individuals may not be able to afford the consultants who could to that for them. Hence, the suggestion that people need to consider how long the models will be stored, and what would be the best format if such storage is for an extended period of time.MisterMaker wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 1:19 pm At least you can always install an older Freecad version. You could even write your own update script to update files to newer versions.
This issue is kinda of a big deal if you actually use those expensive big corp CAD packages, but just a minor issue if you have access to all the data you need to fix it.
I am aware of all you have said.
Thanks for explaining! Really helpful. Learnt a lot hereeajmarceau wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 1:25 am As for choosing a format for long-term neutral-format storage, allowing for the possibility that you might find yourself forced to migrate to a different CAD system at some future date, STEP might be that "archival" format, because even FreeCAD is evolving geometry such that some feature definitions are not forward compatible, and therefore you could not guarantee the import of the FCstd file into the latest FreeCAD and be guaranteed that those files would come in 100%, to then convert to your target system of migration. It all depends on how long do your designs need to live .. untouched .. before they are likely needed to be resurrected for another application/customization.