For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release:

https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop/releases

That's a pity:

> Penpot Desktop loads the Penpot web application like a browser does. For offline use, the built-in local instance creator can set up and run a local Penpot instance via Docker (per the official self‑hosting guide).

Came here to complain about the same. I downloaded the app, but it needs an online account. What's the whole purpose of making it open source and downloadable, if it doesn't work offline?

The thing which I've always wanted to see is a knowledgebase system which uses a company's e-mail as an interface:

- new e-mail from client comes in which can't be matched to an existing project? New page in the knowledgebase

- second e-mail from client comes in w/ an attachment? It's stripped off and added to that page in the kb

- employee sends out e-mail with link to the initial version of the project? The link is added to that page

&c.

Maybe AI could make something like that work now?

Still baffles me that Outlook won’t let me tie together emails, calendar items and documents. It makes so much sense to combine these things. All my meetings are about documents and their related correspondence but you never have a coherent information space for them.

I spend a lot of time saving Outlook messages to the file system and storing them for reference later.

For me, I've never done well w/ traditional 3D CAD (need to find time to try Moment of Inspiration 3D), and I've been working on wood joinery where a test joint which was 1" x 2" x 1" took some 20 minutes to do CAM, and created a ~120MB file --- programming the tool movement directly seems a better approach, so I've been working on:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

That's a shame.

If I could use FreeCAD by programming in OpenSCAD, I'd be far more inclined to use it.

There is another workbench — indeed I think this is possibly a candidate to replace the core one:

https://github.com/KeithSloan/OpenSCAD_Alt_Import

There's also a CadQuery 2 workbench now: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-freecad-workbench/

Thanks!

It's especially nice that CadQuery has come full circle (having started as a workbench).

Dune 3D in particular is the only traditional 3D CAD program I've ever tried where I actually made it through the tutorial without a showstopper (still need to find time to try Moment of Inspiration 3D).

Well, there's OpenSCAD already, and for folks who like Python:

https://pythonscad.org/

If there was a real possibility of folks being willing to use this sort of UI in industry, BRL-CAD would be far more popular, and writing AutoLISP scripts wouldn't be an obscure specialty.

Yes, but if one wants to use that sort of thing, why not go _all_ the way back:

https://brlcad.org/

The great thing about OpenSCAD is that it makes it easy to programmatically model objects using cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres by placing, stretching, and rotating them.

The awful thing about OpenSCAD is that one's ability to model in it is strongly bounded by one's fluency with mathematics and ability to use math to programmatically model objects using cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres by placing, stretching, and rotating them.

The one tool I'm aware of which is looking at a new geometry kernel which I can recall is:

https://fornjot.app/

I've been meaning to look into:

https://coderivers.org/blog/python-svg/

You mean svgwrite (https://github.com/mozman/svgwrite) which looks like it is no longer maintained?

I know of svg.py (https://github.com/orsinium-labs/svg.py) and drawsvg (https://github.com/cduck/drawsvg)... I have played with both a bit, no idea how they compare to others.