Someone do any CAD. I’m pretty surprised at how shitty the free cad options are. I just use it for 3d printing. Fusion360 (free) is the only decent product out there.
But compared to Fusion360, it’s archaic—borderline unusable imo.
What I really want to use is Shapr3D, but there’s no way I’m paying $40/m for the pleasure of making a model or two a month.
Plasticity looked promising, and I was willing to drop the parametric in a pinch, but I had trouble with getting the size right because it’s scale-agnostic.
I tried using freecad a while back
my previous experience being two years in blender and light designs in fusion360 that i picked up very quickly
designing a very simple shape that would’ve taken me a minute on blender or fusion, took me a good 20-30 minutes navigating errors and ui to find simple tools like extend, even after being found, making them work is an extra hassle
I would love to use freecad but its not worth the learning curve for me when i only design basic things to 3d print
Okay, now airbus do freecad.
Someone do any CAD. I’m pretty surprised at how shitty the free cad options are. I just use it for 3d printing. Fusion360 (free) is the only decent product out there.
FreeCAD isn’t terrible, especially since v1, it’s rough round the edges at times, but definitely usable.
But compared to Fusion360, it’s archaic—borderline unusable imo.
What I really want to use is Shapr3D, but there’s no way I’m paying $40/m for the pleasure of making a model or two a month.
Plasticity looked promising, and I was willing to drop the parametric in a pinch, but I had trouble with getting the size right because it’s scale-agnostic.
What are you trying to model? It’s far from unusable.
I tried using freecad a while back my previous experience being two years in blender and light designs in fusion360 that i picked up very quickly
designing a very simple shape that would’ve taken me a minute on blender or fusion, took me a good 20-30 minutes navigating errors and ui to find simple tools like extend, even after being found, making them work is an extra hassle
I would love to use freecad but its not worth the learning curve for me when i only design basic things to 3d print