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Today we've got a more technical post -- a guest article by @edwilliams16 about the Rotation API:
https://blog.freecad.org/2023/01/16/the ... n-freecad/
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And hot on its heels, a post from @Varnu01 about another opportunity for FreeCAD users to meet up (online):
https://blog.freecad.org/2023/01/16/fre ... onference/
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chennes wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 4:12 pm And hot on its heels, a post from @Varnu01 about another opportunity for FreeCAD users to meet up (online):
https://blog.freecad.org/2023/01/16/fre ... onference/
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Another installment of WIP Wednesday -- the biggest item is the toponaming meeting on Friday, but there are a few other items on there.
https://blog.freecad.org/2023/01/18/wip ... -jan-2023/
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are the blog entries published (as links) somewhere else? I would recommend publishing them on the official twitter and mastodon accounts too
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They aren't but you're right, they should be :) -- I've just been lazy about getting access to the appropriate accounts. I'll get on it.
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chennes wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:26 pm They aren't but you're right, they should be :) -- I've just been lazy about getting access to the appropriate accounts. I'll get on it.
I think @Kunda1 was managing those? There probably is some tool out there to automate this sort of thing... Hmmh maybe not for twitter anymore after the Elon Musk mess, I've read they disabled their API or something like that.
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This morning's post is likely already familiar to those of you participating here in the forums, but here's an announcement about the recent merge of @jnxd's point-on-spline work:
https://blog.freecad.org/2023/01/23/new ... on-spline/
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In a "blink and you missed it" moment, this past week saw the merge of a very nice tweak to the expression autocompleter -- there's more work to be done, but already this makes the autocompleter much more useful in many common use-cases:
https://blog.freecad.org/2023/01/30/exp ... rovements/
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