So is there an open source direct modeler? I've been working in Designspark, but while it is not currently as onerous as F360 or OnShape (god forbid I stumble into something that other people decide might be worth a few bucks), it's still a (free for now) subscription and has had feature erosion, specifically importing darn near anything pre-existing. I'm not making anything complex enough that it suffers from the Direct Modeling workflow, and I find that workflow much more intuitive. Shoot, I'd even settle for a fork of Solvespace with chamfers and fillets, LOL.
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RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agoThis is nothing you have to see personally like this but it’s pretty much the definition. Blender is not CAD. End of story.
wjrii@kbin.social 6 months ago
thantik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
CAD-Sketcher blender addon. 'nuff said.
RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
imho this isn’t really up to the task of complex CAD. But it’s good enough for very simple things i suppose.
ScottE@lemm.ee 6 months ago
CAD Sketcher improves Blender a bit, but it’s still not good enough to turn Blender into a dimensionally accurate CAD, and I found the UI to be fairly clunky and if anything even less intuitive than FreeCAD, honestly.