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What is your favorite open source software? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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