• MrSlicer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Freecad is pretty powerful, and fully functional now that they figured out their topological naming problem.

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        Openscad is all text based. Freecad is more like conventional cad software like fusion 360. Honestly I don’t even know how people can use Openscad lol.

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      1 year ago

      They finally did it?? I was using the thunder-something fork for a while because of that, but I always prefer sticking with the base project if I can.

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        It’s largely mitigated in the newest version. I also used that branch. I don’t know if maybe they folded that branch in to the main or what.

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      God. I hatelove FreeCAD so much. As someone coming from the Autodesk/Fusion360 world it is so incredibly clunky and unrounded.

      And on the other side so incredibly powerful and flexible.

      Argh. Argh.

      I really have to figure it out better.

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        It’s hard for me to bitch when it’s free. I am very grateful for their efforts. That being said the learning curve is steep. But I’d assume not as steep a openscad.

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          The thing is: For private use Fusion 360 is also basically free. With drawbacks and everything but it’s a constant gamble between these drawbacks and the clunkyness. I personally wait for the day that Autodesk will fuck up Fusion even more and then even though I am lazy I will be forced to accept FreeCAD as my saviour.