Feedback
Known issues and what's planned
This page is built from my own labels on the feedback forum, so it is never more up to date than my last look — but it is never invented either. Private bug reports never appear here.
Planned 0
Nothing here yet.
Later 0
Nothing here yet.
Fixed 0
Nothing here yet.
Declined 0
Nothing here yet.
What CADWiz is for
In scope today:
- Looking at your FreeCAD model: what is in it, its sizes, and pictures of it.
- Measuring: lengths, distances, wall thickness, and whether it fits your printer bed.
- Building and editing solid parts in Part Design: sketches, pads, pockets, holes, fillets and named sizes you can change later.
- Spreadsheet-driven sizes, so one number can drive the whole part.
- Meshes and STL files: importing, repairing and simple edits for printing.
- Print checks: wall thickness, bed fit, units and overhangs flagged before you slice.
- Versions: every change is a saved copy you can go back to.
- Exporting for your slicer, and technical drawing sheets of your model.
- Marking things on your screen so you and Claude are pointing at the same spot.
Out of scope for now (planned thinking for CADWiz 2.0, nothing built):
- BIM / Arch (buildings). Walls, roofs and IFC building models are their own world, far from making a part for a 3D printer.
- FEM (stress analysis). "Will this bracket break?" is a real question, but a proper answer needs a solver and qualification work that belongs to CADWiz 2.0.
- CAM (CNC toolpaths). CADWiz is for people with 3D printers, not CNC mills.
- Assembly with moving joints. Hinges, gear trains and articulated parts need the Assembly workbench's joints, which CADWiz has no tools for yet.
- Surface modelling (freeform NURBS). Sculpted organic surfaces are handled as meshes for now; the Surface workbench is not covered.
- Robot, point clouds, OpenSCAD import and other specialist workbenches. Not surveyed for a 3D-printer owner's needs; feedback that shows real demand can change that.