Oh yeah, I've been rebuilding a lot of my models in FreeCAD, it's just not an industry standard so you can't really use it for work.
I think the fact that it's Python based is going to catapult it into relevance soon. Python is replacing lisp as the scripting language of choice for modeling thanks to Blender.
The fact that it's easy to make extensions for it is a huge benefit as well. I think as Autodesk continues to screw people over with license changes we're gonna see huge shifts towards existing open source projects like FreeCAD and Kicad (Kicad already has Cern backing it)
Also, while FreeCAD is a bit clunky and unintuitive for amateurs, it also forces best practices. I can make functional parts in Fusion that are absolutely garbage and unconstrained that break the second I change anything. FreeCAD forces you to constrain your sketches and dimension everything properly before it spits out a body which is annoying, but also good.
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The only reason I'm still using Windows is fucking Autodesk
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Oh yeah, I've been rebuilding a lot of my models in FreeCAD, it's just not an industry standard so you can't really use it for work.
I think the fact that it's Python based is going to catapult it into relevance soon. Python is replacing lisp as the scripting language of choice for modeling thanks to Blender.
The fact that it's easy to make extensions for it is a huge benefit as well. I think as Autodesk continues to screw people over with license changes we're gonna see huge shifts towards existing open source projects like FreeCAD and Kicad (Kicad already has Cern backing it)
Also, while FreeCAD is a bit clunky and unintuitive for amateurs, it also forces best practices. I can make functional parts in Fusion that are absolutely garbage and unconstrained that break the second I change anything. FreeCAD forces you to constrain your sketches and dimension everything properly before it spits out a body which is annoying, but also good.