Ive been looking for a community on discord or wherever where open science hardware is developed, I don’t know if anyone here could point me in any decent directions? I’m currently working on an open source mass spectrometer and I’d love others to bounce ideas off.

Have you tried v1. 0 of freecad? It’s a completely different beast and I’m yet to find anything it can’t do versus fusion 360 (the previous package I used) . We’re actually using it professionally at my job now aswell because of its custom user made work benches and scripting tools which no other package allows.