Earlier this year the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) awarded a grant that sought to make the Ondsel Lens platform available to all. If you don’t know the Lens platform it enables vault style storage of projects with a heap of online collaborative tools. You can use it as a platform to show off your projects and products, or as a way to assign team members and tasks and work collaboratively on FreeCAD projects. As part of Ondsel it was deployed via AWS and relied on lots of dependencies. The FPA grant has enabled Amritpal Singh, one of the original Lens developers, to work to get Lens self deploy-able and cloud agnostic, which it now is!
Over on the repository there are some instructions to deploy this locally either using docker or full manual install. Within no time you can be up and running with your team!
6 responses to “Lens Platform Now Available, Collaborate With FreeCAD Online”
This is quite huge.
Thanks for the outstanding work.
I am thrilled to see how this will evolve.
I am excited to see some progress on this! I attempted to spin it up myself and the default docker compose configuration didn’t want to make any volumes and didn’t want to accept any default credentials logging in so I wasn’t able to get very far in testing anything. I am willing to help test this on my setup as it evolves, but it looks like there are still some kinks to iron out.
Just in case you see this more than the Forum, there’s been a response and this should now be fixed. Thanks ever so much for your feedback Jonah.
Also, we enabled issues on that git repo, so you can provide feedback to Amritpal there as well: https://github.com/FreeCAD/Ondsel-Server/issues
Is someone hosting a public server?
Not yet