The two ways of fighting profiteering

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Come on. The 1.0 release is a huge milestone, but saying it's better than the entry level commercial options is just disingenuous.

I have actually switched over to it because I run a small 3D printing business as a side income, which isn't nearly profitable enough to afford an onshape license, and although Fusion360 has an affordable startup license it simply won't work on Linux and my hackintosh laptop isn't powerful enough for cad.

It is at a point where it is very usable if you are willing to invest the time needed to learn it, but the learning curve is much, much steeper than that of OnShape or Fusion360, especially if it is your first CAD program.

For a hobbyist that just wants to model a few things and not sell them I would always recommend OnShape or Fusion360 over FreeCAD, or even Tinkercad if said person just wants to model extremely simple things.

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The type of person to do this most likely already has a 3d printer, and cad software is free for personal use. The electricity and filament cost for this part would be a few cents and it would take minutes to print on modern printers

Even if you didn't have a 3d printer it would be significantly cheaper to use a 3d printing service to order the part, than to buy OEM replacement knob

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That's my house. We have dual ovens and use them simultaneously several times a year, mostly holidays.

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Ours are electric and can sit flush with the front after pressing them in. I meant soare parts in general

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90cm.

We have one for our 4 adult, 2 kid household. Its amazing how often it's not big enough for all sorts of things.

I think 2 X 60cm ovens make more sense in hindsight and they also dont take as long to heat up

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I had my shower knobs as vice grips for a long while

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Thats going to be a squidgy mess after a long cooking session. Hope he doesn't get plastic burns.

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They should not be that warm but it's about the limit of what is comfortable to touch.

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I've always got a spool of high temperature PLA for that, good for up to 140°C.

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Wait you have kids and still sink money into crypto shillcoins?

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The comfortable temperature limit to touch is room temperature because anything higher indicates a broken oven which makes me highly uncomfortable.

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You didn't steal it, you recycled.

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So one is creative and solution seeking and now proud about himself and an inspiration to others and the other one -- not, but just a selfish thief. Down the stairs with him.

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*Reused, which is preferred to recycling even if the materials are 100% recyclable.

That's what I told to the store employee I encountered coming to work via the back door. He wasn't too happy but ultimately let me do it.

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Just a thief?? That’s creative, solution seeking, and ecologically conscious problem solving right there

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I think something might be wrong with your oven uh... my knobs don't get anywhere near the glass point of PLA when I'm cooking something.

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He's an active initiator of the broken windows theory and thus not only a thief but acting anti-social by destroying virtues and morale and thus social safety, coherency and teamspirit. He's a selfish sociopath.

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Nah it's not you, FreeCAD is perfectly usable for something like the above referenced knob but even mid-size assemblies really have problems. I personally find the workflow to be bad and irritating beyond my ability to express in words and I can't imagine how frustrating it would be as a new user to work it out for yourself while at the same time getting used to thinking of objects as collections of operations.

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He's a selfish sociopath

Sure, being a thief is bad, but one case of theft doesn't instantly make him a CEO.