@Eclsnowman 's idea of using a Winbook TW801 as a print host is great. I’m not sure how well FreeCAD will work on one, but I’m always up for experimenting. Everything in one small device sounds ideal. Until then my camera enabled Pi is doing the job. I wish I’d tried OctoPrint earlier, no need for constant returning to the office to see how a print is going is great. I’d like to see the GUI use responsive design more, on a small form factor it’s a bit cramped. A few floating
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A big thanks to @foosel for all her work. Nice to see a lady coder with such a great product. I’ve spent 30 years working in IT, there’s a shortage of really skilled people in general and the number of women in IT roles is far too low.
I will try to get freecad up and running in the next few days. I will report my fundings. It does run 123d design just fine. I am used to solidworks, so 123d feels unbelievably limiting.
Since solidworks won’t even install on 32bit windows 8, freecad might be a good alternative.
Thanks Eric. Does the tablet support a mouse okay? I’d do general button clicking with the touch screen, CAD work needs more accuracy.
I use a $19 Bluetooth microsoft sculpt comfort mouse from amazon. It works great.
FreeCAD runs surprisingly fine on low-powered hardware, but good OpenGL support is necessary. I assume with such a recent Atom chip, this should be no problem.
It may struggle on big complex parts and assemblies though… But even on a fast PC, FreeCAD can choke on a massive assembly of parts.
I use synergy. The tablet is mounted on the top of my delta which works out great because my laptop is usually right below it. http://synergy-project.org/