It seems like a good idea to harness the power of virtual design teams that can help conceptualize, draw, and plan upcoming projects. People with all different levels of build/fabrication skills show up to help with projects, a lot of great brainstorming happens, and then a lot of that information is lost when that group leaves. Given the constant flow of folks coming and going at Wheaton Labs, capturing and communicating design info has always been challenging. You can download it from the website and install it with minimum fuss. It supports Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Geodata, Computer-Aided Manufacture (CAM) and CNC control, and some experimental Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools, so it will handle most everything that might be needed.įreeCAD reads/imports a lot of different file formats and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The best choice for a Wheaton Labs CAD platform is probably FreeCAD ( ), which is a free, open-source 3D parametric modeler that is very modular and extensible. Please jump in with thoughts/feedback/cunning plans for making it all work better. Paul asked me to throw everything into a thread so we can all brainstorm on it together. So I suggested that Wheaton Labs adopt a standard Computer-Aided Design (CAD) platform and a bit more formal(ish) development process to accelerate forward velocity. One obvious requirement for making this happen is consistently creating good technical drawings and making them available in a format everyone can easily use/modify/share. We basically need more regenerative engineers and tinkerers out there working on everything and sharing their results. I’ve been talking to Paul about the need to increase the ability for the experiments at Wheaton Labs to be replicated to allow for faster iterative improvements and wider adoption.
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