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62 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | 12 comments

thechao 30 minutes ago

I wish overhead (cut away to passenger layout) and side scale drawings of all cars existed. That way you could directly compare the vehicles. You'd think such information would be needed (in the U.S.) by the NTSB; and, thus, be freely available.

barbacoa 55 minutes ago

What's ironic is that Apple does all their mechanical CAD work for their products in Siemens NX running in Windows VMs.

leohonexus 28 minutes ago

I understand the need for it to be in Siemens NX, but do they really run it in Windows VMs? As far as I know NX isn't certified to run in VMs without Nvidia GPU passthrough (aka Macs). It seems more sensible to maintain a fleet of Windows desktops specifically for CAD and industrial control.

brcmthrowaway 17 minutes ago

This is insane. Is there no great first party CAD solution on Mac?

MBCook 2 hours ago

I had no idea they published this to the general public.

darknavi 2 hours ago

A huge ecosystem of third party accessories, cases, skins, etc.

The openness is easily worth it.

eloisius 31 seconds ago

I always imagined shops in China got out the calipers and made measurements from scratch every time a new iPhone was released. Never knew Apple made it this easy to manufacture Minion iPhone cases

MBCook 36 minutes ago

That’s obviously the people who are really using it, but I assumed you had to pay Apple to get it.

So either you made your own measurements or if you were doing Made For iPhone and they would give it to you as part of that program which surely you must have to pay for.

enoch2090 2 hours ago

For accessory manufacturers?

nish__ 2 hours ago

It's so we can make cases.

sysguest 5 minutes ago

idk maybe apple can release fbx or blender files?

I mean these seem nice for print-decorations...

mrcwinn 60 minutes ago

Even the drawing of the Vision Pro feels heavy.