Freecad is pretty powerful, and fully functional now that they figured out their topological naming problem.
How does it compare to OpenSCad?
Openscad is all text based. Freecad is more like conventional cad software like fusion 360. Honestly I don't even know how people can use Openscad lol.
God. I hatelove FreeCAD so much.
As someone coming from the Autodesk/Fusion360 world it is so incredibly clunky and unrounded.
And on the other side so incredibly powerful and flexible.
Argh.
Argh.
I really have to figure it out better.
It's hard for me to bitch when it's free. I am very grateful for their efforts. That being said the learning curve is steep. But I'd assume not as steep a openscad.
The thing is: For private use Fusion 360 is also basically free. With drawbacks and everything but it's a constant gamble between these drawbacks and the clunkyness.
I personally wait for the day that Autodesk will fuck up Fusion even more and then even though I am lazy I will be forced to accept FreeCAD as my saviour.
They finally did it?? I was using the thunder-something fork for a while because of that, but I always prefer sticking with the base project if I can.
It's largely mitigated in the newest version. I also used that branch. I don't know if maybe they folded that branch in to the main or what.
Freecad is pretty powerful, and fully functional now that they figured out their topological naming problem.
How does it compare to OpenSCad?
Openscad is all text based. Freecad is more like conventional cad software like fusion 360. Honestly I don't even know how people can use Openscad lol.
God. I hatelove FreeCAD so much. As someone coming from the Autodesk/Fusion360 world it is so incredibly clunky and unrounded.
And on the other side so incredibly powerful and flexible.
Argh. Argh.
I really have to figure it out better.
It's hard for me to bitch when it's free. I am very grateful for their efforts. That being said the learning curve is steep. But I'd assume not as steep a openscad.
The thing is: For private use Fusion 360 is also basically free. With drawbacks and everything but it's a constant gamble between these drawbacks and the clunkyness. I personally wait for the day that Autodesk will fuck up Fusion even more and then even though I am lazy I will be forced to accept FreeCAD as my saviour.
They finally did it?? I was using the thunder-something fork for a while because of that, but I always prefer sticking with the base project if I can.
It's largely mitigated in the newest version. I also used that branch. I don't know if maybe they folded that branch in to the main or what.