• notaviking@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I use it regularly for my 3d printer, nice simple software, but be warned it has quirks…

    Still able to do 90% of the stuff I want to do

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah learning freecad was a huge pain. Hiwever it does support most things so at least the featureset is good.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s very quirky compared to Fusion360. If they made it at least a little bit smoother to use, at least for my tastes in CAD Software; I would be all in.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah I am having too much friction getting Fusion360 to work on my Linux Mint, I know there are methods but with the registration as a hobbyist and using a container… Got too much, you can blame me as a user not being invested enough to get it working, and installed FreeCAD from the Linux store hassle free.

        The quirks I can work around, sometimes it makes me go back and redesign another iteration to avoid the quirk and then also improve my design as a bonus

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      12 hours ago

      Same for me. I got a 3D printer and was more interested in downloading files than creating my own. But when I got into FreeCAD it opened a world of customisation.

      It took me a long time to learn and I’m still learning, like ensuring I’m constraining in a way which allows resizing later on in the design.