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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago

FreeCAD

FreeCAD is actually pretty good finally to be fair. Still not as good as Solidworks, but definitely usable. I dunno about its CAM capabilities though.

OpenSCAD

Yeah useful if you are making gears, pulleys, fasteners, art etc. Otherwise no. You're not going to design a fork lift or motorcycle with OpenSCAD.

For simulation there is Octave, scilab, sympy, einsteinpy and other python projects.

I meant SystemVerilog simulation - Questa, Xcelium, VCS, Verilator. Verilator is the only open source option and while it is useful it is very far behind the commercial offerings in many ways.

openshot

Unusuable last time I tried. Blender's VSE is still better even though it is buggy.

Opensource software have no budget and no money ... With opensource you can ... You can’t kill it

I wasn't arguing the merits or flaws of open source. Also just because you can always take the source code and fork it blah blah blah doesn't mean that actually happens. There are plenty of great open source projects that died because nobody did that. I'm saddest about Dia, which was a really great diagramming tool that is long dead. The modern replacement is Draw.io but that's no longer open source and has some annoying flaws (e.g. you can't export rich text to SVG).

Maybe I should use AI to modernise Dia or something. It's not too bad at that sort of thing.

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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