Margot Robbie

SolidWorks is cheap for noncommercial and is the only package that I know of that still offers a permanent license for commercial work.

There is also Solid Edge noncommercial if you are doing 3D printing around the house.

Looks good to me.

You can use Lemmy as your comment section. Would like to see you try out more CAD software, since this place really needs original content to grow.

Do write a bit on synchronous modeling.

I’d say the opposite is true. The pro CAD softwares are a lot more user friendly than FreeCAD in term of UX, so easier to learn too.

This is a field where free software is unfortunately way worse than the paid options, and all the paid options are expensive.

If you are still a student, you can get SolidWorks for 100 USD a year, or Creo, Inventor, or Solid Edge for free. Completely non-commercial though.

If you are serious about this, get a SolidWorks permanent standard license (it’s like 4 thousand USD?) or ZW3D permanent license which is just a bit cheaper, it’s a relatively new Chinese company though, so a bit of jankiness is expected, but up to you if you want to try them out.

I’ve seen them, they are an order of magnitude more expensive than the potentiometer based ones. Good for enthusiast hobbyist upgrades, but I doubt Nintendo is going to go for that considering the pricetag of the Hall Effect sticks.

It’s a tradeoff of price/size for reliability, essentially. “Better” is subjective in this case.

Look up “potentiometers” if you want to understand the workings behind a thumbstick as well as why drift happens.

So, drift happens because the graphite resistance element inside the potentiometers wears out over time due to friction, but these potentiometers are absurdly cheap compared to the alternatives and one company, ALPS of Japan, has dominated this market (not just for the Switch but for everybody) for 20 years that they pretty much out-prices everybody else. So, now you know why companies still use these thumbsticks despite the fact that drift always develop eventually.

Hall Effect sensors are definitely better, but also tend to be heavier and bulkier, so we’ll see if this works out.

That’d be great, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Let them try.

Also, I should REALLY go watch Star Trek.

Hi u/spez, why did you cancel my AMA to promote “Barbie” on reddit?