As a long-time Solidworks user (mostly for hobby projects) who switched to FreeCAD again recently, I highly recommend watching the tutorial videos from "MangoJe

As a long-time Solidworks user (mostly for hobby projects) who switched to FreeCAD again recently, I highly recommend watching the tutorial videos from "MangoJelly Solutions" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuyJLVUNtc0UszswD0oD5q4VeWTrK7JC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuyJLVUNtc0UszswD0oD... In my experience, a lot of what I used to think were limitations of FreeCAD turned out to be me just not knowing the FreeCAD way of doing things. More importantly, that FreeCAD almost always has more than one way of doing things, so if something seems too hard, you need to go digging for an alternative workflow. The videos start kinda slow for folks who already know how to do parametric modeling, but it helps to put yourself in a beginners' mindset and pretend you're learning CAD for the first time. I found them a lot more useful than the documentation. I should note that FreeCAD as of 0.21 is a lot more stable than previous versions. The last time I tried to switch (2-3 years back), I gave up and just paid for my annual SolidWorks renewal after the third time I lost several hours' work due to a crash. With the latest version, I don't think it's crashed on me once. Where I still miss SolidWorks is when doing complicated assemblies, but I'm still getting to know the various assembly workbenches to figure out which one works best for me. For basic part modeling, I think I'm coming around to actually preferring FreeCAD now. (It's also a huge plus not having to reboot my Linux desktop into Windows, although I'm still keeping the Windows partition around for gaming.)