empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com100% this. Ive been through 4 different cad packages professionally and every single one of them is terrible bad awful garbage. Pick your flavor of garbage and get with it.
After a few months of forcing myself to learn it, FreeCAD really isn’t that bad. It’s miles better than Creo.
FreeCAD has possibly the worst UI I have ever used combined with some of the worst UX of any software. But it has every feature I need, it’s free and it works (mostly).
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I haven’t used it in awhile, but OnShape I think had the best UI, for being in a browser.
There are some macros out there I’ve found that make FreeCAD a lot better. I kinda wish they had a half-decent reference for macro writing; they’ll point you to their unfinished out of date wiki if you ask.
Omg. I swear they rename/move a bunch of things every update so every guide is just a little bit out of date.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The answer they give you is “If you want it written, YOU write it.” Which…it’s no wonder open source software doesn’t hold up, right? It’s made by idiots who think it’s up to end users to write the manual.
KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Idk Creo has pretty awful UX