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FreeCAD is good for simple stuff. When I had to switch is when I was doing anything intermediate. The following are examples of operations that are totally triv
by SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
FreeCAD is good for simple stuff. When I had to switch is when I was doing anything intermediate. The following are examples of operations that are totally trivial in Fusion360 that are nearly impossible to achieve in FreeCAD without either rebuilding large portion of the model or some other destructive operation, or gave incorrect results, or was difficult to work with the end result:
- adding a chamfer (such as when you need to add a 1 degree slope in an injection mold
- more complex spatial Boolean operations
- simple operations for manipulating entire models by pushing or pulling subsets of them
My use case was designing simple parts for injection molding (rudimentary electronics enclosure for outdoor use). Not in any way what someone would consider pushing the limits of what modeling software can do.
Overall, I cannot unfortunately recommend the software to others at this time unless you are 100% sure that it will satisfy your use cases. Or else you will end up in the same situation as me, someone who wasted hours and hours learning this tool and wanting it to be the tool I could use, only to find out it’s just straight up insufficient for my use case.