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Subject: Re: nice STEP viewer
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:53:09
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john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:27:24 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk>
> wrote:
> 
>>On 9/24/24 05:43, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
>>> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:17:27 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
>>>> <ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>> https://3dviewer.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No registration, no hassles, includes measurements.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, it is ONLINE i.e. ABSOLUTELY USELESS for all practical
>>>>> purposes.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think that viewing a STEP file is useful. I can see what my
>>>> mechanical guys are doing.
>>>>
>>>> edrawings is a huge pain to install and soon breaks.
>>> 
>>> Just go get FreeCAD. Not just enables you to view and measure objects in
>>> STEP format but it is also a full blown 3D CAD that allows you to make your
>>> own 3D models from scratch.
>>> 
>>> They blew it for Linux because it is mostly Python so it is not included in
>>> standard Fedora anymore, but works just fine under Windoze.
>>> 
>>
>>Fedora has python, just not the nearly 15! year old obsolete version ...
>>and freecad is not going to keep 2.x support either
>>
> 
> Python Wars. The online STEP viewer just worked.

Viewing STEP files in FreeCAD is easy enough. You just import them. My main use
of FreeCAD was converting IGES to STEP. You just import IGES and export STEP.
Though IGES parts have no color, so then you just point click on the surfaces to
change the color. I never used the Python feature.