How much do you use it? For me, once I dedicated a bit of time to YouTube tutorials and realized most of what I wanted to make could be done with booleans, it started getting fun.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I’m still in the “slowly pecking at it for 11 months” stage, but in my case its closer to 24 months now. My biggest problem is that FreeCAD still feels like work and Fusion360 feels like something I can just eff-around with and still get good parts out of.
I’ve been thinking about trying out CAD Sketcher for Blender except that I’m not really proficient in Blender either.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
A few projects, but not enough to learn all the differences. And not enough to change my mindset toward sketches. I usually draw compound sketches that aren’t valid in FreeCAD and I tend to realize that too late. CAD is kind of a zone-out hobby for me, my brain often isn’t fully engaged.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
If you don’t mind dropping a small amount of coin, Solidworks has a new maker version that is full fledged Solidworks for under $100 a year. Small price for the gold standard in my opinion. I think FreeCAD is better then CAD sketcher for blender. Much higher learning curve.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Lack of Linux or BSD support is a dealbreaker for me.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah that does suck, I’m stuck with windows for work anyways so that’s not a big deal to me
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I haven’t had a Windows install at home or work that I’ve “owned” for over a decade so, it’s a lot more of an inconvenience to me, to be fair. I don’t want to re-learn an OS that I spent so much effort removing from the realm of “my problem”.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Orrrrrrr… You know… Keep using FreeCAD, supporting the need for FOSS solutions since it seems to be working well and won’t have the price hike that will eventually come with all commercial products.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I hadn’t heard that, thanks! An annual $100 is well within what I’m willing to pay for my hobbyist use.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah it’s totally worth it, don’t get me wrong, I like FreeCAD but it does have it’s limitations. The solidworks license comes with their sculpting tool as well.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 11 months ago
I don’t want to be this guy, but if you are willing to fork that much, perhaps you could consider donating some to FreeCAD? See it as an investment: in the end you would get a better version of a software that you truly own 🙂
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I don’t really like what’s been built so far and I’m not qualified to contribute, so it’s entirely possible the more it’s developed the more I’ll come to dislike using it. I don’t want to own freecad.
clb92@feddit.dk 11 months ago
If they had a fund set up solely dedicated to a complete UI rework, with input from UX designers, I’d consider donating.
the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While I agree you can mess with fusion more, I found my old designs to be flawed and filled with issues.