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Great to see FreeCAD growing! A few months ago after a tweet about open source CAD got way more traction than I would have expected, I started a discussion boa

Great to see FreeCAD growing! A few months ago after a tweet about open source CAD got way more traction than I would have expected, I started a discussion board using github's discussion feature to document some analysis of the open source CAD landscape and how best to achieve a professional-ready open source CAD system. I did a fair amount of digging in to all the possible options, and ultimately came to the conclusion that FreeCAD and the fork by Ondsel are our best hope of good open source CAD for professional users. If you are curious, take a look at the discussions and reasoning, captured here on that discussion board: https://github.com/tlalexander/open-cad-foundation/discussions https://github.com/tlalexander/open-cad-foundation/discussio...

tredre3 3y ago
Ondsel managed to make FreeCAD intuitive, it's actually quite usable already! I never could get things done in FreeCAD. Some would say it's a skill issue, and they'd be right. And yet Ondsel "just works" for me. One downside is that Ondsel has recently put the download behind a sign up for their SaaS offerings. Even though there's a free tier, requiring a sign up is very anti-user and not really indicative of the open-source CAD saviour we all want... For now they still have releases on github, though: https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD/releases https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD/releases But it really should be available on their official website and not hidden behind a dark pattern (IMHO).