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Frecad has come a LONG way since I started using it in 2016, and I encourage those who had a hard time with it a few years back to give it another try. Also - m
by osamagirl69 6y ago
Frecad has come a LONG way since I started using it in 2016, and I encourage those who had a hard time with it a few years back to give it another try. Also - make sure you are getting a recent version, some distros have a tendency to ship a horendously outdated version. The current stable version is 18.4, there should be 19.0 release soon with a ton of improvements, but it is not quite there yet.
- encom 6y agoIs it still a nightmare to compile? It's not in the Gentoo tree, because aparently, getting FreeCAD to compile cleanly, ~~requires human sacrifice to The Ancient Ones~~ is quite difficult. I was forced to use Solidworks last year, as part of a training course, and I didn't like it at all. I have some Autocad and 3dsmax experience from admittedly long ago, but the way things are done in Solid felt weird and alien to me. Not to mention I had to use a Windows machine for it, and after removing it, it had still left its DRM tentacles deep in the system. Had to pave the machine to make sure it was all gone.
- boyadjian 6y agoAt least on Windows, it is easy to compile, now that there is CMake.
- osamagirl69 6y agoI have never tried to build it, but I imagine it is still a nightmare to compile. Where I am in life these days I leave that to the package maintainers. Solidworks is terrible and chock full of antipatterns. I haven't used autodesk in a good long while--my last memory with it was pretty bad. I was on a team that won a design contest from Autodesk--the prize for which was a laptop pre-loaded with the autodesk suite. The kicker was their software crashed regularly on that machine even under light use...