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.

    • MuchPineapples@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      7 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.

    • asbestos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      This looks interesting. In your opinion, does it improve on FreeCAD much? I tried FreeCAD some time ago and I felt like an absolute moron

      • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        At this point it’s a just a fork of freecad with a slight ui overhaul and some usability improvements. It’s still freecad underneath. Ondsels product is their freecad compatible collaborative cloud. They have made some changes to the workers to simply them and are contributing it back to main freecad. But the learning curve is still there. The bugs on Windows that can crash your projects still occur. But you can use wsl to install the Linux version and not have any issues.