What is Fraise?
Fraise is an open-source, cross-platform 3D model design and slicing application aimed at making 3D printing accessible and enjoyable. It provides an intuitive interface that allows users to easily design 3D models from scratch or import existing models to prepare them for 3D printing.
Some key features of Fraise include:
- Powerful modeling tools to create and edit 3D designs
- Supports many common 3D file types for importing and exporting models
- Customizable slicing engine to prepare models for printing with detailed print settings
- Interactive layer-by-layer preview to visualize the printing process
- Supports connecting to 3D printers to directly monitor progress during printing
- Extensible through a plugin architecture to add new features and capabilities
- Available on Windows, Mac and Linux with a consistent user interface
By providing an integrated modeling-to-printing workflow, advanced features, and cross-platform support, Fraise aims to offer a 3D printing solution accessible to beginners and experts alike. Its open-source development model also allows constant improvements from a worldwide community of contributors and users.
Sublime Text, Notepad++, TextWrangler, PSPad, TextMate, UltraEdit, EditPad Lite, CotEditor, jEdit, NoteTab, Erbele are some alternatives to Fraise.