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I've been burned with enough (temporarily) 'free' CAD software that I've finally made the permanent switch to FreeCAD. I am a huge fan and can easily recommend
by hospitalJail 3y ago
I've been burned with enough (temporarily) 'free' CAD software that I've finally made the permanent switch to FreeCAD.
I am a huge fan and can easily recommend it.
Maybe in the past, FreeCAD wasnt good, but today its just CAD software. Sure it might not have a wire harness tool that gives you a report about different wires, but I've used enough CATIA to know that CATIA doesnt work either. (maybe hyperbole, but basically Catia tools were so bad, my company ended up writing our own checks).
Bonus points that there is already google indexed support for every question you can imagine. Can't say that about niche Catia stuff.
- adql 3y agoI'm still annoyed that doing simple "here is a hex hole, multiply it in 10x12 grid" takes so fucking long in FreeCAD...
- hospitalJail 3y agoLike, the time to develop it? Or the time to compute it? Because I did basically that with a parallelogram yesterday on a nvidia 3060 laptop(45*16=720 shapes) on a curve. It took like 5 minutes to compute it. No joke, I am afraid of this model and I was happy to export it as a .stl and move on.