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FreeCAD Nodes (renamed from fc_nodes)

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Hello community,

FreeCAD Nodes is starting to grow! Thanks to all the contributors https://github.com/j8sr0230/fc_nodes/gr ... ntributors. We now have a solid node editor framework and a well documented base node template. Each node has typed input and output sockets.
In addition to that:
  • Predefined input widgets for convenient value manipulation
  • Drop on wire
  • Collapse node on double click
  • and many more ...
Workbench integration and modeling nodes are coming soon! Follow our development at https://github.com/j8sr0230/fc_nodes.
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Re: FreeCAD Nodes (fc_nodes)

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j8sr0230 wrote: Mon Sep 05, 2022 12:29 pm Hello community,

FreeCAD Nodes is starting to grow! Thanks to all the contributors https://github.com/j8sr0230/fc_nodes/gr ... ntributors.
[...]
Workbench integration and modeling nodes are coming soon! Follow our development at https://github.com/j8sr0230/fc_nodes.

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Yea, very exciting!
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What is this 'nodes' thing? I don't get it. Is it some new way of making models?
I don't know FreeCAD very well so perhaps this is to do with aspects of FC I have not used before - I only make 3D models for printing - so maybe that explains my confusion.
Can someone explain it to me or point to a link that explains what this is and why it is advantageous (the GitHub page doesn't move me forwards)?
Thanks.
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PJT wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:50 am What is this 'nodes' thing? I don't get it. Is it some new way of making models?
Here is a history on what node graph editors are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node_graph_architecture
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Kunda1 wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 3:17 pm Here is a history on what node graph editors are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node_graph_architecture
Thanks for posting that link which I found interesting. It reminds me of a sort of neural network and mind maps.
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Laurie Hartley wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:32 am Thanks for posting that link which I found interesting.
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@Kunda1 I have a feeling you may find these two books that I read years ago of interest - they were written in the 60’s. The reference in your link to the Rand tablet and my subsequent reading the memorandum pdf led me to an “association”. :D You may have already read them.

Laws of Form - https://archive.org/details/lawsofform0 ... 0/mode/2up
Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer - https://archive.org/details/programming ... 5/mode/2up

When I read them in the 80’s I was trying to gain an understanding of the nature of things. I don’t profess to understand the content - I just had a feeling that they were both very profound in their own way.
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Laurie Hartley wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 8:05 am I have a feeling you may find these two books that I read years ago of interest
Indeed! I'm a big fan of John C. Lilly and have also heard of the Laws of Form but never curled up with it. Thanks!
And now back to our scheduled forum thread topic :lol:
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Re: FreeCAD Nodes (fc_nodes)

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Kunda1 wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 5:50 pm And now back to our scheduled forum thread topic :lol:
Very politely done Kunda - I will bookmark this thread and the GitHub page. :D
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