BOLTS Version 0.2 released
I am happy to officially announce the first public release of BOLTS. The aim of BOLTS is to build a free and open-source standard parts library for CAD applications. It does so by providing a common database that can be utilized by many different CAD applications.
The main features provided by this release are:
- Has support for OpenSCAD and FreeCAD.
- Uses a flexible, human- and machine-readable data format to encode information about commonly used parts.
- Allows to represent the geometry of the parts either as OpenSCAD modules for OpenSCAD or Python functions or FCstd files for FreeCAD.
- Automatically generates HTML Documentation, an OpenSCAD Library and a FreeCAD widget that can make use of this information.
- Has extensive Documentation that describes how to contribute new parts.
- Includes a integrated license management system that allows to reuse existing code while ensuring license compliance.
- Provides standard parts for 135 different standards by 8 different standardisation organisations and also some parts that are not standardized.
However BOLTS is still at the very beginning of its development and should be considered beta software. I invite people to contribute to BOLTS by trying it and providing feedback and ideas for improvement or by adding more parts.
Have fun with this release