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by ruevs 6mo ago
Someone at Microsoft thinks the same ;-) https://github.com/microsoft/edit If you have Windows 11 it comes with this new (open source) `edit` written in Rust - open a command prompt and type `edit`. This is somewhat am
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by ruevs 6mo ago
I wondered the same and actually tried it on Windows 95 - it will be a bit more work. The bottom screen shots in this comment https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1036#issueco... are the missing AP
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SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)(github.com)
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by ruevs 6mo ago
By the way this creation of his, from July 1990: https://www.fourmilab.ch/evilempire/ is very relevant here, but we are getting off-topic :-) SpeakFreely was his as well - a very early encrypted, VoIP app. And this: h
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by ruevs 6mo ago
One more fun fact: SolveSpace officially is supported on Windows (Vista-11), Linux and macOS, and compiles with Emscripten and runs in a browser. However with a little effort it also compiles for and runs on Windows 2000. https:/&#x2F
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by ruevs 6mo ago
And 6-7 years later the `WinSxS` directory was born and these days it is tens of gigabytes. `Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase` In an administrator command prompt. You can thank me when it
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by ruevs 6mo ago
One more fun fact: SolveSpace officially is supported on Windows (Vista-11), Linux and macOS, and compiles with Emscripten and runs in a browser. However with a little effort it also compiles for and runs on Windows 2000. https:/&#x2F
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by ruevs 6mo ago
Is this critique or praise of his character? ;-)
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by ruevs 6mo ago
Join SolveSpace development? ;-)
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by ruevs 6mo ago
GNU Unifont is 973KiB, and we also have the vector font unicode.lff.gz at 1.03MB. So the web version of SolveSpace is literally one megabyte of WebAssembly.
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by ruevs 6mo ago
But does it run etirely locally in the browser after downloading a total of 2993991 bytes (less than 3 megabytes) of code? ;-)
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by ruevs 6mo ago
Had to Google this one :-) Since SolveSpace has a helix tool that can "extrude" any sketch along a helix it should be doable.
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by ruevs 6mo ago
Oh! This is very bad! It should not look like this. I've tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge on Windows; Firefox and Chrome an Android phone and tablet and it renders correctly - like the desktop version. What browser are you using? On what
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by ruevs 6mo ago
The last Autodesk software I've used was AutoCAD 2000 (released in 1999). And I've not followed them since. Perhaps they have indeed become "one of the worst corp. in the world of software", but in the early years they w
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by ruevs 6mo ago
Had to Google this one :-) Since SolveSpace has a helix tool that can "extrude" any sketch along a helix it should be doable. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dreaded-double-helix-tutorial...
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by ruevs 6mo ago
If you get lost press `f` to "fit" the current drawing to the screen. By the way working in SolveSpace is extremely fast if you use keyboard shortcuts - almost everything can be dome with a shortcut key. No need to search for them
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by ruevs 6mo ago
Intentional indeed. It is GNU Unifont - a 973KiB file that covers practically all of Unicode. In a bitmap font, platform independent, self contained, small. Practically all that SolveSpace strives to be. https://www.unifoundry.co
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by ruevs 1y ago
The other "decent" commercial one that can be licensed is C3D (ASCON/АСКОН uses a CAD kernel based on it in КОМПАС 3D) but it is Russian and thus currently "behind sanctions". Here is a bit on it from the author of
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by ruevs 4y ago
The comparison is pretty interesting, however SolveSpace is badly misrepresented by "not parametric". In my opinion easy, stable and very flexible (the same tools are used in 2d and 3d) parametric modelling is it's greatest s
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by ruevs 10y ago
This is ancient news re-implemented. Windows NT had a POSIX layer up to about Windows Server 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem http://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24&#x2