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Hi,

Let me introduce myself, I am a senior electronics engineer, retired, but still registered as a freelancer in the field of hardware and software design.

Mechanical drawing, I only knew during my studies, with tracing paper and rotring on the drawing board, and there I put my nose in FreeCAD for 3D, hoping to generate printable files, and LibreCAD in 2D possibly for electronic card.

In electronic CAD I commonly use MENTOR Pads and ALTIUM Designer.

I just bought an ELEGOO Neptune 3 printer, which has arrived, and I will have to learn. My first project consists of a box for an electronic device with a graphic display and 3 R6 batteries, so about 100 x 180 mm, and I would need advice.

Thank you for your advice

Good evening friend

Maybe Christophe can share ideas with you.

Thank you for the answer.

For 2D I just tried LibreCAD, really not intuitive, and even with the tutorials I give up. I think I can make a 2D view easily in 3D software, and then my electronic CAD will be easy!!!

I am installing FreeCAD. Good night !!!

AIE it goes wrong to launch FreeCAD:

23:22:17 During initialization the error "[WinError 127] The specified procedure could not be found: 'C:\\Program Files\\FreeCAD 0.20\\bin\\lib\\site-packages\\shiboken2'" occurred in C :\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.20\Mod\AddonManager\InitGui.py
23:22:17 Please look into the log file for further information
23:22:18 During initialization the error "[WinError 127] The specified procedure could not be found: 'C:\\Program Files\\FreeCAD 0.20\\bin\\lib\\site-packages\\shiboken2'" occurred in C :\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.20\Mod\Arch\InitGui.py
23:22:18 Please look into the log file for further information
23:22:19 During initialization the error "[WinError 127] The specified procedure could not be found: 'C:\\Program Files\\FreeCAD 0.20\\bin\\lib\\site-packages\\shiboken2'" occurred in C :\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.20\Mod\Draft\InitGui.py
23:22:19 Please look into the log file for further information
23:22:20 During initialization the error "[WinError 127] The specified procedure could not be found: 'C:\\Program Files\\FreeCAD 0.20\\bin\\lib\\site-packages\\shiboken2'" occurred in C :\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.20\Mod\Tux\InitGui.py
23:22:20 Please look into the log file for further information
23:22:22 DLL load failed while importing StartGui: Invalid parameter.
23:22:22 DLL load failed while importing StartGui: Invalid parameter.

I'm going to look, but if anyone knows I'm a taker

Forget Freecad, for modeling for 3D printing with complex shapes, I recommend Meshmixer…it's free and the same editor as Autocad…Autodesk…

I mastered it after a few hours of youtube tutorials…

For filaments do a search on the forum we have topics...

I'll give you some more tips tomorrow...go through it forum 3d printing while waiting

Thanks for the advice, I started the download.

Freecad is indeed very crappy, they release a release per week, each time it blocks, microdaube runtime problems that I have already installed !!! And I'm not going to start debugging and compiling Python

The main troubles, I loaded and installed, and at launch I have an error report!

I found the error files in a hidden APPdata rep, the XML contains machine info... and the word error has 2 lines, the crash date and Error accessing UPI repository in the 64 bits registry, the second file a .dmp that win does not know how to open, I have to find my hex file editor

Um what software are you talking about?

From Meshmixer