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HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Hopefully one day it’ll get an easier ui for fusion 360 and Solid Edge users (like myself). I really want to use free cad but every time I try it’s super frustrating to do even basic things and often takes so many extra steps I just end up cading it up in solid edge instead

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wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t know why Solid Edge doesn’t get more love. IMO it’s comparable to Fusion for basic part design, and it’s fully local.

I actually got a license for Alibre, so I’ll keep using that until my hair finishes turning gray.

I was running into some errors with the FreeCAD Appimage in Linux, but the Windows version is running fairly smoothly, and it’s finally getting enough helper prompts and heuristic interface things to be less unwieldy, but it’s still FreeCAD. For instance, I’m still trying to find the easiest of three or four kludgey ways to project a face onto a sketch, and none of them are as easy as the purpose-built tool for that in Alibre.

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- KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh shit, I didn’t know Solid Edge existed. I thought fusion was the only free commercial 3D cad software. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it out.
  
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  - wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s, oh jeez, six months old by now, but back in the spring I went through all the ones I’d tried. I ultimately settled on the middle tier for Alibre, with a permanent license. Pricier than Atom, to be sure, but feature complete for any needs I can imagine for myself as an utter amateur.
    
    a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/13801439
    
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    KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh wow, that’s awesome! Thank you so much
    
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- HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah I wish Solid Edge got more attention! It’s absolutely comparable to Fusion, just the slightest bit more convoluted. I love it because I don’t have to deal with the cloud garbage, and constant sign outs on fusion.
  
  I’ll have to give Alibre a try it looks nice from what I saw on their website! Do you know by chance if it supports 3mf’s?
  
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