FreeCAD has an OpenSCAD plugin. Personally, I’d stick with FreeCAD regardless of workflow since you can do both in it. It has its quirks, but once you get used to it, it’s great.
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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 7 months agoI might take a look - the learning curve on FreeCAD is pretty steep. Not that I wouldn’t expect any other CAD to be much easier, but I feel there’s a lot of assumed knowledge about concepts that appear to be unique to FreeCAD. Kinda increases the study load, if you catch my drift.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 months ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Check out the Adventures in Creation YT (or Piped) channel. He does a very exhaustive set of tutorials from beginner to advanced that is well produced and explained.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
MangoJelly (also on youtube) has a bunch of beginner friendly FreeCad tutorials.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 7 months ago
Thanks for that. One of the things that really helped me start using F360 was the 3x20min videos made by Lars Christensen. Looking at the channel you’ve just recommended, he appears to have done something very similar. I’ll enjoy working through those. Cheers!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 months ago
FreeCAD is definitely getting there. Not 100% ready for prime time, but definitely getting there.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
any advice on getting constraints to actually behave? I can’t seem to get it to actually create geometries more complex than a box. (and forget master-sketches. that irritates me.)
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Here is a tip: constraints don’t need to behave. You can leave parts unconstrained and it will still work.
You can just eyeball the placement, and make sure the constraints that matter are constrained. The rest you can leave floating freely.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Doesn’t thaT really scare things up later if (when) you need to make adjustments?
I’ve never left something unconstrained that I haven’t regretted later.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Doesn’t that create wonky geometry if you try and alter the parameters?