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FreeCAD 1.0 finally dropped! (www.freecad.org)

submitted 1 month ago by ad_on_is@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 31 points 1 month ago

Is it decent ? Yes

Should I look elsewhere? Also yes.

CAD is difficult to understand on a good day, and FreeCAD is a beginner unfriendly implementation of it.

I personally love it and it’s an excellent tool if you already know what you are doing. If you don’t, it’s a mess of screens and spaces with no rhyme or reason.

My two cents. Learn CAD first, Google Sketchup or Fusion 360 are good and beginner friendly with lots of tutorials. Then move to FreeCAD to learn the differences.

That said if you want to just try FreeCAD, this release is the best I’ve used from them.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

I'm familiar with sketchup, I'll give it a shot this weekend!

[-] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Does it still have that weird problem where you're not allowed to modify surfaces because of the way you created them? Last time I tried using it, I couldn't create a mirror copy of a shape and then edit the mirror. I could only edit the source, which then applied the changes to all the parts.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

The whole point of the 1.0 release is about mitigating the topological naming issue, (TNP). All 3cad program have problems with it. It can't ever be fixed, only mitigated. You can break Fusion or SolidWorks just like FreeCad, (I've done it). At best the software can only fail a gracefully as possible.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I didn't know that! From the other comment, sounds like it's basically fixed.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

They still have somethings to cleanup and tweak to make the guessing better and more reliable. But it's on it's way for sure.

[-] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'll mention this fix is aimed at mitigating toponaming primarily for sketch attachment. Some features still struggle with toponaming, namely chamfers and fillets. But in any case, it's a massive step forward and makes FreeCAD much easier to recommend! Until now I've been using Realthunder's fork since toponaming was such a headache to resolve manually.