give us good alternatives then. bonus for ones that run natively on linux.
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Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
If you’re a beginner: get used to a different software, because Autodesk is the king of enshittification. Your files will be hostage and then you’re going to pay the subscription to keep them alive. Don’t waste your precious time in mastering Autodesk applications, the more you wait the harder is the switch
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
FreeCAD, optionally with Ondsel.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’re missing the “actually intuitively usable” part.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Well, it is a lot better than it used to be.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Great advice that I’m definitely going to take. I’m just learning now and kind of shopping around for which modeling software to learn.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s just so rough to switch away from the one major CAD suite that doesn’t tar and feather UX devs on sight. Seriously, I like solidworks and all, but holy cow that interface is just unpleasant to use if you haven’t been using it for 30 years.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Solidworks has the most intuitive interface I’ve seen so far. I may be biased from using it for like 15 years at this point but I’ve also tried Fusion 360, SketchUp, Ondsel and FreeCAD with varying degrees of success in creating designs and assemblies more complicated than a nut and screw.
lud@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yes, yes you are extremely biased.
UnityDevice@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
I mean I learned it in a few days and found it very intuitive as well. Far more intuitive than I found fusion when I tried that years later. Inventor and onshape also feel more pleasant to use.
The issue seems to be that the fusion interface is very non-standard when compared to other cad suites, so people that get used to it first find everything else unintuitive.
c10l@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I found Onshape to be quite nice. It was relatively easy to translate skills from Fusion to it after a few YouTube videos.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
How is this better? Image
d15d@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
This and the online-only are the reasons I no longer use onshape. While I don’t mind for a majority of my stuff to be public it just doesn’t make sense for everything and then you can’t even use it e.g on longer train rides without internet.
c10l@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Whilst this is fair criticism, I was responding to complaints about the UX in other CADs.
thegreekgeek@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
It is but you can’t sell any models you design on the free version because “TeRmS oF sErViCe”.
c10l@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s on the free license. Fusion360, to which this thread is offering an alternative, has the same limitation.
autodesk.com/…/Do-I-qualify-for-free-use-of-Fusio…
BingBong@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Having tried Fusion 360… It’s interface and design paradigm is utter trash. NX, Creo, and Solidworks are all far ahead. Can’t speak for catia, I’ve never used it but the versions I saw looked worse than Fusion
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We all have our preferences, although some people’s are clearly more valuable than others…
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
UX isn’t universal. What intuitively clicks for one person might be unusable for someone else. Good UX is adequate for as many people as possible, but it can’t be perfect for everyone at once when some people work best with large labelled buttons with big, clear icons that have to go into submenus to fit on the screen, and other people prefer lots of small buttons whose purpose and location they’ve memorised which all fit on screen at once to save them needing to click into submenus.