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FreeCAD 1.0 finally dropped! (www.freecad.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I've tried it for a few hours, but basic stuff seems incredibly needlessly difficult. After thousands of hours in Solidworks it's just too painful.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oddly, despite the 1,000's of hours of SW myself, I had little difficulty in picking up FreeCAD. Or Fusion or OnShape, (even taught OnShape to high school students), or SolidEdge. Once you understand the design process of CAD, it's not all that hard. I do have preferences in UI's and workflows, but that doesn't mean I can't use something different.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All the others you listed are very similar to solidworks and no problem. FreeCAD decided sketching should be completely different. I can barely even draw a line and I don't understand how that's possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why does it surprise you much that FreeCAD isn't like SW? And why do you think it should be?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because solidworks is the gold standard in the space and is intuitive for millennials that grew up on computers. It mirrors other software that came before in terms of super basic stuff like how to draw a damn line. If you're going to do a big swing and change the paradigm with a fundamentally better way, it better be really good for a really good reason.

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