Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing?
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoFreeCAD is insane. It is absolutelty unworkable and unintuitive for me.
I find it pretty workable for most of my cases, but have to look up how to solve certain things. I am doing fairly simple stuff though, and I don’t have any other references except some SolidWorks back in high school ages ago. But it gets me fairly easily to where I want to be, and it is FOSS which is important to me - I don’t want to lock my workflow into a software suite that may do a major rugpull at any given moment. I have experienced that before.
I didn’t start using it until after the 1.0 release - apparently there were some major improvements to the usability with that release. Did you try it after?
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
yep, I tried it fairly recently.
I agree with you on a philosophical level. But ignoring that, if it’s only about prpductivity shaper or fusion are way ahead compared to open source. I’d say you can work at least twice as fast in those.
And freecad slows me down way too much because of how unintuitive it is for me. If I only restrict myself to open source, blender has a way better UX.
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Alright, that’s fair. I have been planning on trying the CAD-plugins for Blender as well. I love Blender, and it is easy to use except when it comes to CAD-stuff. I’ve also been wanting to try out OpenSCAD.
I like that FreeCAD seems to have quite some steam and hopefully it will only improve going forward.