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[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Welcome back!

Discourse

Discourse features

has a specific feature for top threads during a given time frame:

https://community.carbide3d.com/top

and it should have preserved your read state, and I believe that it does calculate average read time for a given topic.

As mentioned, notable developments are:

New machines:

Nomad 3 info, plus something else

https://carbide3d.com/blog/2020/nomad-3-plus-something-else/

New beta:

Carbide Create V5 / Build 500

UPDATE: Starting with build 512, updates will be uploaded to the beta page at https://carbide3d.com/carbidecreate/beta/ If you’d like to try our unstable build of CC 500, the Windows build has just been shared at: https://carbide3d.com/carbidecreate/unstable/ A few notes: All of the user interface code on the left part of the screen is now. We removed the Qt/QML system and went to native code that should be more stable and easier to work with going forward. There is a breaking change to t…

New contest:

Community challenge #14: Gears (closed)

Another month, another community challenge! Lamps turned out to be a good source of inspiration, let’s see what you guys can come up with for this month’s theme. The theme for community challenge #14 is: Gears [image] Rules for this 14th challenge: submit your entry in this thread: the project must made on a Shapeoko or Nomad. the project must include at least two working gears. Extra points if you provide a video of them moving. you must include pics of the finished piece. you must inc…

New products:

Mini Announcement(s)

With all the really exciting machines being launched we have neglected to note a couple of other cool tools that have hit the store recently: We have the new super hold kit: We also have the Lock Stops: Enjoy!

Old Autodesk:

Autodesk Fusion 360 changing hobbyist licensing --- what other tools should be considered?

As noted at: Fusion 360 licensing is changing. For folks for whom it is sufficient to make you consider a different CAD application which are you looking at and why and what sort of work do you do? Things which may merit consideration: Alibre Atom3D — good for the folks doing mechanical design it even has a free spreadsheet / calculation feature which allows parametric design Parametric Design Using Alibre Atom3D OnShape — they already had their licensing kerfuffle, so presumably the cur…