you can’t just draw a cube and extend part of one face
I used to work with sketches in SOLIDWORKS and Inventor too, but those were just easier to use.
Still, it keeps improving, so fingers crossed.
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prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 6 days agoI absolutely get you since that was my experience also.
It’s a concept thing for me. Do everything in sketches and make something with it using the Partdesign workbench. But knowing that you can’t just draw a cube and extend part of one face like you can in fusion helped me to understand the take freecad has in cad.
There are some very basic beginner friendly tutorials out there on YouTube. That’s what did it in the end for me.
Damage@feddit.it 5 days ago
LycanGalen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh, yeah, I understood sketches being the starting point, I just lived on the struggle bus any time I tried to sketch anything. The interface is close enough to vector drawing, that it constantly felt like I knew what I was doing, except everything I did threw an error 😅 or the things that in vector drawing would be a simple ‘click on an anchor and drag’, are multi-step processes involving a spreadsheet here.
I know a lot of it is a matter of practice, and I’m sure there are also growing pains for the software. I’m genuinely excited by the changes they’ve made to modifying sketches, and the little explanations at the bottom of the screen, I hope they are able to keep the momentum going.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 5 days ago
The struggle bus… You made me laugh