It’s ok to not get it when it comes to parametric CAD. I can’t get the hang of OpenSCAD. And don’t get me started on Blender. Years of trying, and I STILL can’t make that doughnut…
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cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 days ago
I really struggled to try to get into FreeCAD, but I don’t totally blame FreeCAD because I’ve also struggled with “real” CAD programs, my brain just doesn’t really seem to work that way.
OpenSCAD and other programmatic CAD on the other hand makes me feel like a goddamn wizard magically combining shapes in the ether to create the most absurd objects.
I explained this to my engineer brother and he laughed and said he had already thought about OpenSCAD being right up my alley and wasn’t surprised, but he finds it extremely difficult and counterintuitive for him. It’s funny how we must have totally different mental models of working with 3d shapes I guess.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 days ago
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I was the same way. I started with OpenSCAD and it made way more sense at first.
But what drove me to FreeCAD was when my parts started getting more and more complicated. I think it was being able to chamfer or fillet all the things that really pushed me.
I am in awe of experts of either program though. I think I still really love how openSCAD is so much easier to understand the steps someone took to get to a finished model when you look at other people’s work. And you can just lift pieces out and reuse them.