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Your own 3D parametric modeler.

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FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

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The contest from last month had established five finalists:

The first row is the new logo that will be used going forward and in version 1.0 of the program!

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I really want to love this software to break free of Solidworks and completely cut off Windows. That said, the UI needs some kind of overhaul to be a little more beginner friendly. I spent way too much time just trying to make a washer for a simple print. Are there any mods I can try to get it closer to work like Solidworks?

[–] Shimon 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, looks interesting. I'm coming from SolidWorks as well. This looks like a fork of a fork? How stable is it?

[–] Shimon 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been using it for a while now and to mee it seems as stable as FreeCAD itself. It only crashes when I do something very complicated on my old laptop.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks for the recommendation. What do you prefer about it over basic FreeCAD or RealThunder? How close is it to Solidworks? Does it include the concept of "rollback"?

[–] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago

There's a fork call Ondsel that is supposed to be quite good: https://ondsel.com/