Does FreeCAD do CAM too?
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cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’ll need to get used to many new things when switching to Linux. Changing to FreeCAD could as well be one of those
It will be frustrating, and it will take some time to get used to but honestly it’s worth it. If not for anything else then to flex your brain cells and keep them nimble
m4xie@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It has a dedicated CAM workbench yeah
Here are aime tutorials for CAM in freeCAD www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaUEbWaf2rhSGcjQK9…
And the CAM category on the freeCAD wiki wiki.freecad.org/Category:CAM
fluxx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I tried it some time ago and it was pretty usable, I reckon it is only better now.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve dabbled in Linux in the past and spend the majority of my time popping between windows and mac os. I also spend a decent amount of time in powershell/terminal, but largely in the context of work.
I’m not against investing the time learn new things, but time is very scarse these days with two younger kids.
My modeling workflow is often iterative and fusion’s timeline makes it very easy to edit a feature from way back when and then propagate that change through all subsequent steps that reference that feature. You can also add entirely new features and then update the next step in the timeline to reference them. The last time I looked at alternatives this either wasn’t supported or was fickle, but based on some comments in this post that may have changed. I’ll have to give FreeCAD a try.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it’s called parametric design right?, freeCAD suppports this but I have heard that there is a bug when trying to edit shapes with filet I think?
IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, this approach is called parametric design. FreeCAD struggled with the topological naming problem for quite some time, which basically means that internally named things, and references to them, can break under certain situations. Exposure to this problem increased as the thing getting molded became more complicated, which seemed maddening from a user’s perspective. It seems like it may have been fixed in the main branch somewhat recently, which I was not aware of. That’s good news.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They have since released V1 that seems to be pretty solid. Still not 100% but for a free software it is a very useful tool that gets most jobs done
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I second freeCAD for complicated designs. For simple stuff I use tinkercad which runs from web browser
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Personally I’d say go with freeCAD even for simple designs. Its a great way to learn the software and you will not end up adjusting you designs to the limitations that tinkercad has.
Also I feel like it is difficult to do premise placement on tinkercad