Revision as of 00:07, 13 January 2020

OSE Developer Video Cover Letter

Creating the Live USB from ISO is easy and straight forward
- Had a unused 8 GB USB laying around
- Used Startup Disk Creator on Ubuntu 18.04
- Had some difficulty finding the correct download link for the latest version of ISO
Had difficulties booting from USB even after changing boot order
- Maybe related to dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu
- Found help on Ask Ubuntu: Is there a way to boot from usb through grub menu?
  - Solution was to manually enter a series of commands in GRUB menu
  - This made using OSE Linux painful as every time I boot I have to enter in a series of manual commands
No pre-installed Chrome extensions makes a lot tasks difficult
- No password manager makes logging into various critical websites difficult:
  - YouTube to listen to music while I work
  - The Open Source Ecology Wiki
    - To jot down notes or save files
  - GitHub
    - To save work
    - To contribute to or debug open source projects like FreeCAD workbenches
No SSH key created so I can't easily authenticate and work out of GitHub
No code editor setup how I like
- Visual Studio Code
  - Various extensions like Python support
  - Preferred theme and font
Severely out of date software
- FreeCAD 16 (released April 2016)
  - Out of date workbenches
  - No AddOn Manager
  - Assembly 2 workbench is no longer maintained since 2016 and may have issues with FreeCAD 0.17 and above
    - Why spend time to learn something that won't be around in the future?

Initially very difficult even for the most basic tasks like moving and rotating objects
Frustration led to searching for OSE Developer Test solutions on YouTube
- Found one solution where the person pastes commands into the Python Interpreter to arrange the cube
- This seemed a lot easier than messing with the GUI and appealed to my background as a developer
- Decided to create a FreeCAD macro for the OSE Developer Test
  - Wanted access to GitHub and preferred code editor setup how I like
  - Frustrations with using older FreeCAD 16 when help online referenced latest FreeCAD 18 features
Spent a lot of time trying to get auto-completion for FreeCAD API in Visual Studio Code
- Found walkthrough article with accompanying video on YouTube, but still didn't work
Had difficulty attaching bolt to hole programmatically in Python using the Fasteners workbench
- Created issue on GitHub repository
- Spent some time debugging Fasteners workbench
Discovered FreeCAD 19 will come out sometime this year (2020) and I'm very excited:
- GUI looks a lot prettier and there's a dark theme
- Migrating from Python 2.x to Python 3.x
After spending some time completing the OSE Developer Test I feel a lot more comfortable in FreeCAD and see the power in it

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 *** Out of date workbenches
 *** No AddOn Manager
+*** [https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Assembly2_Workbench Assembly 2 workbench] is no longer maintained since 2016 and may have issues with FreeCAD 0.17 and above
+**** Why spend time to learn something that won't be around in the future?
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