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Comment on I liked Fusion 360, I like Onshape - but I'd rather like something that I won't lose over the whims of one company. So, what?

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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve tried both the link branch and ondsel, and I honesty think they’re about the same level as regular freecad. None of them are even near as intuitive to use as e.g. onshape, they’re actually a bit of a chore to use IME.

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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah they are a bit of a pain to use, but still better than having your files taken hostage by autodesk or onshape

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VandalFan77@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You don’t even have to touch any “advanced” modeling features for FreeCAD to be useful. I primarily use extrudes and revolves of sketches in the Part Design workbench. The workflow is exactly the same as what I do at work every day in SolidWorks.

FreeCAD doesn’t let you be as loosey-goosey with geometry as some commercial software. That’s because they don’t have an army of developers paid to work on “nicety” features like that.

I can break SolidWorks models the same way that I can break FreeCAD models. No CAD software is immune to this. Some fail more gracefully than others. It doesn’t mean it’s unusable. You should have seen the repairs I had to make to a SolidWorks model today because I needed to convert a generic extruded feature into a sheetmetal feature…. It took a few minutes, but it’s no different than fixing things in FreeCAD because you changed the design.

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- ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t want to spend hours just getting to know how to use the software for my basic needs. FreeCAD is (or was when I tried 8 months ago) not intuitive enough for me, so I moved to something that allowed for easier simple modelling. 3D modelling is not what I enjoy, I just need it done so I can do the stuff I actually enjoy. It’s a tool I want to spend as little time as possible with.
  
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