3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
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Unfortunately FreeCAD is to professional 3D CAD as wet toilet paper is to kevlar. As someone who's spent thousands of hours in solidworks, FreeCAD is physically painful to use. Onshape is the "free" compromise that generally works well.
Have you tried v1. 0 of freecad? It's a completely different beast and I'm yet to find anything it can't do versus fusion 360 (the previous package I used) . We're actually using it professionally at my job now aswell because of its custom user made work benches and scripting tools which no other package allows.
I was recently using entirely legitimate professional software because I was sick of Fusion360's cloud crap. Admittedly I wasn't using it at a professional level, but previously I would've had the same trouble with FreeCAD, which was what drove me to my entirely legitimate alternatives.
But just recently I was trying FreeCAD, and struggling a bit with the interface, when I checked the latest version which was 1.0.0.
So I updated and it's had a complete UI overhaul. It now looks and runs like pro software. It has a modern look, and the UI interactions are extremely smooth.
My favourite part of it is the spreadsheet system. It's fully-fledged spreadsheet software, and when you've made all the calculations, you just have to name the cells you need, and then you can access them as variables from the design. It's really powerful for parametric design. That part of it was already much better than autodesk's parameter system.
Anyway, I'm not going back to Fusion or any of the pro software again. I'm doing my latest project in FreeCAD and it's a super smooth experience.
Yes, but OnShape is only "free." FreeCAD explicitly allows you to retain ownership of your own work, without requiring it to be percolated through someone else's cloud servers.
I will go back to carving things by hand out of stone before I rely on cloud based design tools.