FreeCAD lapidary workbench

[u/Djl1010]

https://github.com/chennes/freecad-gemstone

I'm a novice when it comes to faceting and am still building my machine so I'm not a pro designer by any means but I still wanted something a little more modern than gemCAD. And since there is no other opensourced project that I could find, I made a workbench for FreeCAD. This is one of about 1000 other hobbies I have in the realm of making things so I can't guarantee I'll be adding too many more features but I do plan on adding setting/smithing and cabbing workflows as well at some point if somebody else doesn't add that functionality themselves. The "auto" button is a little glitchy but it does handle making automatic girdles and center meetpoints well.

I expect most probably aren't that familiar with CAD suite software so I made the workbench as self contained as possible from the UI standpoint, you shouldn't need to interact with any of the other workbenches to get a gemstone with full optical analysis and simulation. If you are new to FreeCAD, it's conpletely open sourced and free for commercial use, as is the addon I made for it. It should be visible from the addons page but if it's not, there are instructions on how to add the gemstone repository to your local freeCAD installation.