• mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    Freecad is a real no go. Tried it and forced to do something with it. The amount of bugs. And really basic bugs makes using it for professional work a non starter. It basically is a collection of amateur software stitched together with no single part having reached maturity.

    Freecad was built on top of a giant library called opencascade. Which is in part the reason why we can’t have dynamic or real time modeling. Everything takes triple the interactions to make than in its commercial counterparts.

    Add to that the lack of vision and the different fields of work of the contributors makes its development spread all over the place. Unlike blender, it doesn’t seem like FreeCAD will achieve a breakthrough milestone.

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      FreeCAD is doing a really substantial rewrite right now to completely revamp their topological naming system, which resolve a meaningful amount of pain points. It may bring it far enough to be a viable option.

      We’ll see.

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      Blender is the gold standard for what a runaway success of foss looks like. I’d love to see FreeCAD get there, but they’ll need significant investment to do so.

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      Have you tried Ondsel, a wrapped version of FreeCAD? I’ve found it a much easier move from F360 (only a few months ago) than FreeCAD itself, and am now modelling in it quite happily.

      I’ve still got some learning curve in front of me but, as with F360, once you master the basics, it’s just a matter of learning a new trick or two for more complex models.

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      I use it all the time, and it works great.

      The problem is that you were trained on autoCAD. I have no prior experience with CAD, so I don’t expect it to be something it’s not

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        We probably don’t use it for the same work. But I can do way way more work using other software than dancing around the interface clicking a bizzillion buttons before achieving anything. I need realtime dynamic editing and FreeCAD can’t do that.