Python Package a BOLTS distribution for the use without CAD has been developed.
During a long period of inactivity from my side BOLTS has degraded. Bugs and Problems were noticed, but not fixed, the website went down at some point, and also the integrations had their share of bit-rot.
However Bernd Hahnebach kept the FreeCAD macro alive and from now on, we will together maintain this project. A number of activities have started
I wish everybody a happy new year 2016. I wrote such a post last year as well, and expressed my hope that 2015 would be a good year for BOLTS. However 2015 turned out to be a very slow year for BOLTS, as I did not have a lot of time and energy to spend on BOLTS. And I can not promise that this year will be better.
However, other people did advance the project:
Older posts can be found in the Blog archive.