Life is all about incremental steps forward. And… some steps backwards and sideways as well…

I switched from FreeCAD to Fusion 360 as I want to end up doing some 5 Axis CNC Machining. Currently FreeCAD support for this is very… far… away…

So here are the results of applying the same learning process of modelling a brick in Fusion 360:

And here is the online model: https://a360.co/3dLLBre

Presenting a set of template Rust, WASM and Deno projects on GitHub which make use of GitHub Actions and Workflows for continuous integration.

I’ve previously outlined my reasons for evaluating Rust and Deno. Using these technologies, I am looking to achieve:

• A scriptable high-level layer (Deno REPL) controlling a performant lower-level core (Rust).
• A single executable binary via Deno Compile.
• Cross platform executables via cross-compilation support for Deno and Rust.
• Ability to dynamically load and run additional logic after installation via Deno’s support for the Javascript import() function.
• Agnostic support for running as an OS process or in a browser runtime via Deno’s web platform APIs and the ability to compile Rust to WASM.
• Simple project scaffolding via Deno’s stated goal to “provide built-in tooling to improve developer experience”.

I wanted to see if these could all be achieved using free SaaS tooling for continuous integration including:

• code analysis
• automated dependency updates
• automated unit testing and integration/acceptance testing
• automated semantic releases
• automatically generated API documentation

I created the template projects and GitHub workflow and actions discussed here to see if the technologies could deliver on their promises and thus achieve my aims.

A new feature release version of Legify is available at:

https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros/releases/tag/v0.4.0

This provides a new legify-technic-pin macro which renders a technic pin onto an existing Part Design workbench body.

Therefore the “s” in the name of the project “freecad-legify-macros” now has real meaning! 😜

I ordered some 3D prints of bricks designed with the legify macro code available at:

https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros

Presented below are two assemblies as rendered within FreeCAD and assembled in real life.