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Au contraire... FreeCAD has a confounding UI, except for the sketcher.
by argomo 1y ago
Au contraire... FreeCAD has a confounding UI, except for the sketcher.
- Jnr 1y agoIt is far from perfect, but it is quite usable now. https://i.imgur.com/4CezlnJ.png https://i.imgur.com/4CezlnJ.png
- _flux 1y agoThis is not a release version, though, is it? Or has some additional extensions on top of it? I've had bad experiences on the latter, as in a lot of breakage occurred :/.
- luma 1y agoLooks like a dev build of the 1.1 release
- Jnr 1y agoI do have FreeCAD Ribbon addon, but I think the rest is as is. Indeed, it is the development version and it is stable, but I'll probably switch to 1.1 stable once it is released, just so that I automatically get the package from my distro. ...which is Arch, by the way :D
- ansgri 1y agoFor me the problem is less the UI but weird bugs / unimplemented cases in its modeling kernel. Some lofts and tubes just refuse to work for no apparent (to me, a non-expert in CAD) reason. Even worse, simple fillets sometimes don't work as expected on moderately complicated bodies. Maybe if you're an expert you can avoid these case, but it's extremely frustrating to spend several hours successfully modeling the general shape only to be unable to apply simple dress-up features. I'd really like to use it and master it further, but CAD is not something I need often, and in F360 any geometry I've needed just works.
- jwagenet 1y agoYea the open cascade kernel underpinning freecad (and python libraries like build123d and cadquery) has a number of rough edges. Many can be avoided, but that unfortunately requires a bit of experience. IMO, lofts are often not the best tool for many jobs, but planning around fillet issues can be a pain.