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Freecad's UI is awful But then so is Autocad's TBH, neither are real 3D modeling softwares. In both packages, you have do all your thinking in 2D, which is i
by ur-whale 6y ago
Freecad's UI is awful
But then so is Autocad's
TBH, neither are real 3D modeling softwares.
In both packages, you have do all your thinking in 2D, which is ideal if you did learn to design parts back in the 20th century with paper and pen, and an absolute torture if you did with real 3D software in the modern computer era.
For example, building a real 3D curve, i.e. something that has actual 3D curvature and no simple plane projection is simply a nightmare.
- floatboth 6y agoParametric solid CAD != mesh modeling. For technical parts, mechanisms and assemblies, you generally don't care as much about complex curvature, you care about parametricity, the constraint solver, and solid operations.
- leoedin 6y agoThere's all sorts of designs which benefit from being parametrically constrained but need complex curvature. Enclosures for instance. It's so useful to be able to do both in one environment.