Oh, AutoDesk…you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.

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      10 months ago

      To be honest, I prefer SolveSpace. It’s significantly simpler and lacks a lot of features FreeCAD has, but it doesn’t crash and does just enough for me to be able to design whatever I need for 3D printing.

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        10 months ago

        I think they both have their advantages. I found SolveSpace a lot more flexible with how you can create constraints. In FreeCAD constraining a line in proportion to another line is AFAIK impossible but at least not at all intuitive in FreeCAD but it’s quite easy in SolveSpace.

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      10 months ago

      In Germany we call it Hassliebe and it describes perfectly what i have with freecad (stupid import an stl way)

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    10 months ago

    I greatly miss the ability to simply purchase a program on a disk for a given year and just have access to that tool.

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      10 months ago

      otoh you have stuff like FreeCAD or OpenSCAD completely free and usable AND you could modify it as you please.

      Back then FOSS CAD was barely usable.