After operating for almost two years, Ondsel has made the difficult decision to cease operations and close down. We are forever grateful for the support we've received from the community! Here is what's going to happen next ondsel.com/blog/goodbye/

While we have your attention, take a look at AstoCAD, a soft fork of @FreeCADNews. It's a new project by Ondsel's former employee @pierrelouisboy who developed the Assembly workbench and improved Sketcher and TechDraw youtube.com/watch?v=X_voRRg1… Website: astocad.com/

While Ondsel is no more, the development of Lens, the PDM system we developed, may live on under the FreeCAD umbrella. In fact, you can now apply for a grant to help develop it blog.freecad.org/2025/02/14/…

We are shutting down Ondsel Lens permanently on November 22, 2024. If you still have files on Lens that you don't have anywhere else, please download them as soon as possible 💔

New feature in weekly builds and upcoming v2024.3: reloadable STEP files. Insert a STEP file into your project from a local disk, an arbitrary server, or use the URL of an Ondsel Lens share link, update the STEP file, reload it to update the project ondsel.com/blog/reloadable-s…

HELL YEAH

We'll be shipping a lot of improvements in the Ondsel Lens addon as part of upcoming Ondsel ES 2024.3. Here is a quick rundown of what to expect and how you can test new features ondsel.com/blog/new-in-lens-…

This is taking our assembly example file into a new territory :)

What are some of the off-the-shelf components you use in your assemblies and other projects the most, apart from nuts and bolts? And what ones are really desirable and yet the most difficult to find as e.g. STEP files?

A while ago, we collaborated with @LibreSpace_Fnd on a fun little project that required simulating multi-body dynamics in zero gravity. Here is the story ondsel.com/blog/libre-space-…

How to design a padel racket with Ondsel ES, a tutorial by @AllVisuals4U youtube.com/watch?v=75TxLNYr…

The next version of Ondsel ES will be shipping with our SVG postprocessor for users who need a better laser cutting workflow. Here is how it works and why we developed it ondsel.com/blog/ondsel-svg-p…

We think that Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) should be a first-class citizen and a core feature in @FreeCADNews and Ondsel ES. Here is why ondsel.com/blog/gd-and-t-as-…

Look at 'em gears turning!

Upcoming Ondsel 2024.3 will have the visual setting of limits in Revolute, Cylindrical, and Slider joints in the Assembly workbench

You can make your own Ondsel ES defaults and revert to them anywhere. Just back them up on Lens and then restore on a new computer. Or you could roll out the same prefs to an entire team when they are members of an organization on Lens ondsel.com/blog/backup-resto…