Can’t even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I’m switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.

  • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m getting disappointed in F360 as well, but existing open source alternatives are pure cancer. Basically, I’ve started making my own open source CAD. Hope to release some basic POC in a month or two.

    • stallmer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You’re saying you’re starting from scratch on a brand new CAD program yourself rather than contributing to an existing, established project like FreeCAD?

      • Dimand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The existence of foss projects should never exclude the creation of alternatives if someone wants to try.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        FreeCAD is a ridiculous mess. The only way forward for the project is to dump the code base and start from scratch.

      • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I mean, it would be cooler to not call the existing ones “cancer,” but I support them trying something new. Yes, it will be an uphill battle, but wasn’t LuaJIT done by a lone genius? I hope they’re successful and we have a new CAD option.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Cue xkcd comic about how we end up with new standards. It’s the same with FOSS projects. Every new stubborn headed dev things they will get it right this time, wasting work instead of contributing and pooling efforts and resources that would get better improvement and quality faster than starting from scratch.

  • space@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Give Solid Edge (from Siemens) a try. It has a free for hobby use edition. It’s not perfect, but I’m pretty happy with it, and none of the stupid restrictions of Fusion.

    • AKADAP@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Fusion 360 used to be free for the hobbyist too. FreeCAD is GPL licensed, so it will always be free.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Last time I tried FreeCad it crashed just about every time I touched constraints. Is that still an issue?

    • MuchPineapples@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Ah FINALLY there is a good fork. FreeCAD exists now for like 15 years, but almost no one uses it because the ui absolutely sucks. And the worst part is, the maintainers know it but they refuse to change it because they think they’re geniuses and everyone else should conform to their twisted vision of cad ui instead of following the standard of literally every other cad program out there.