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.
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
To be fair, fusion 360 also has a free plan, and they also have a version of it that runs in the browser. However, it might be the slowest 3d modeling ever known to man, but it does still work.
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.
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
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.
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
OnShape is another option that has a free plan and works on Linux, since it runs in the browser
To be fair, fusion 360 also has a free plan, and they also have a version of it that runs in the browser. However, it might be the slowest 3d modeling ever known to man, but it does still work.
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.
Yeah learning freecad was a huge pain. Hiwever it does support most things so at least the featureset is good.