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You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things... (cdn.masto.host)

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You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I agree! Nevertheless I am still astounded at the progress FreeCAD has made in the last... What? Four ~ five years? It has gone from "barely usable" and "lacking in even basic features" to "woah! You can make that with FreeCAD?". Also, the community and third party support and contributions have also exploded. This is vital for the survival of a project like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

@Bro666 @DeltaWye Same with Kdenlive. 4-5 years ago, it lacked to many features and was a bit too buggy for me. These days, it's hugely updated, pretty darn stable and frankly... awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@Bro666 @DeltaWye Good to know, good to know. ☺️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Be advised that FreeCAD, much like Blender, is in no way easy to use! It is software for doing engineering and architecture stuff. These thing are not simple. FreeCAD's learning curve is steep.

The good news is that there are more and more tutorials online (and many are follow-along videos) that can help get you started.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@Bro666 I did some AutoCad at university. Brilliant software if you know how to make stuff happen. Would you say that FreeCad is more difficult? I'm fully aware that this is engineering software. I would hope to be able to afford a 3D Printer one day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Very hard to say for me. I did use AutoCAD, but it was years ago. I'm talking more than two decades (AutoCAD was first released in the early 80s), so impossible to judge the current state of the software now.

I can say FreeCAD is good for 3D printing stuff. I also like OpenSCAD, a 3D scripting language.

I wrote a 4 part tutorial series that takes you from designing to printing and covered both FreeCAD and OpenSCAD from a beginner's perspective, if you are interested:

Part 1: OpenSCAD

Part 2: More OpenSCAD

Part 3: FreeCAD

Part 4: Slicing and printing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@Bro666 @DeltaWye
FreeCAD can cope with low end, sketch-and-pad work. New users seem quite happy. It really needs a usability upgrade to help on-boarding though. More visual interaction feedback would help a lot. A verb-noun UI too. Start a command, which then guides what selections are needed.

For high end and surfacing work it's a non starter.

We need more people with programming, CAD and usability skills. A rare combination, it seems.