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Those of you coming from Solodworks beware. There isn’t first class Assembly support. However Realthunder’s Assembly3 work is incredibly promising. https://git

by twarge 9y ago

Those of you coming from Solodworks beware. There isn’t first class Assembly support. However Realthunder’s Assembly3 work is incredibly promising. https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3 https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3

kwk1 9y ago
Indeed, now that the Part Design overhaul is complete, Assembly improvements will be one of the main targets for the 0.18 dev cycle.
- opencl 9y ago
  Is there any estimated timeline for 0.18? 0.16 to 0.17 seems to have taken about 2 years. There's a roadmap page but it lists 0.18 as "Scheduled For Release 2017-11-03".
  - kwk1 9y ago
    It'll almost surely take less time, part of the reason 0.17 took so long was because the Part Design Workbench had compatibility-breaking changes with a whole new workflow. It's probably overly optimistic but some of us are pushing to have this development cycle last roughly until the end of the year before we begin the release process again. At the earliest, that'll probably mean another release this time next year.
  - jononor 9y ago
    Estimates are hard enough in the professional world where one pays X developers to do Y. In a volunteer-ran open source its nearly meaningless... Start to use it today, use extensions like Assembly2/3 to compensate for missing features and do your best to help out if that is not enough. Or have patience :)
    - opencl 9y ago
      Oh yes, I'm well aware of this. I wouldn't still be using GIMP after 10 years if I wasn't a patient person. :) Though I fiddled with an example file for ~5 minutes and it crashed twice in that timespan. Exactly like the last time I tried FreeCAD a few years ago. But I would really like to move on from F360 so I will try to give it more of a chance this time, and hopefully I'll find the time to contribute something.
      - jononor 9y ago
        Crashed in FreeCAD 0.17? Is the bug reported with clear steps to reproduce? Ensuring that is in place is already a good contribution!

by twarge 9y ago

kwk1 9y ago

Indeed, now that the Part Design overhaul is complete, Assembly improvements will be one of the main targets for the 0.18 dev cycle.

opencl 9y ago
Is there any estimated timeline for 0.18? 0.16 to 0.17 seems to have taken about 2 years. There's a roadmap page but it lists 0.18 as "Scheduled For Release 2017-11-03".
- kwk1 9y ago
  It'll almost surely take less time, part of the reason 0.17 took so long was because the Part Design Workbench had compatibility-breaking changes with a whole new workflow. It's probably overly optimistic but some of us are pushing to have this development cycle last roughly until the end of the year before we begin the release process again. At the earliest, that'll probably mean another release this time next year.
- jononor 9y ago
  Estimates are hard enough in the professional world where one pays X developers to do Y. In a volunteer-ran open source its nearly meaningless... Start to use it today, use extensions like Assembly2/3 to compensate for missing features and do your best to help out if that is not enough. Or have patience :)
  - opencl 9y ago
    Oh yes, I'm well aware of this. I wouldn't still be using GIMP after 10 years if I wasn't a patient person. :) Though I fiddled with an example file for ~5 minutes and it crashed twice in that timespan. Exactly like the last time I tried FreeCAD a few years ago. But I would really like to move on from F360 so I will try to give it more of a chance this time, and hopefully I'll find the time to contribute something.
    - jononor 9y ago
      Crashed in FreeCAD 0.17? Is the bug reported with clear steps to reproduce? Ensuring that is in place is already a good contribution!