Post #1673827
2026-04-16 02:33 UTC
@ogi @brianokken @tacaswell @mpirnat in my lab it was also very useful to have a calculator on hand when CAD drafting.
I was *constantly* begging the person who did most of our drawings to stop relying on the constraint solver (slow, unreliable, piss-poor scaling) and to instead work out the relevant relation on a calculator or in a spreadsheet and draft accordingly (Excel was the best option here, unsurprisingly)
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@ogi@hachyderm.io 2026-04-16 02:47
@SnoopJ @brianokken @tacaswell @mpirnat its been about a decade since I was using 3d CAD regularly…. At the time I never came across a tolerance stack up analysis tool that worked, forget worked well; just never came across one that worked lol I used excel for the critical constraints and then used the automatic solver for everything else, which was more than sufficient.