MangoJellySolutions on YouTube is really good.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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JokoEngineering had some good videos though they are starting to be dated.
For someone with zero experience (meeeeee!!!), which would you recommend?
I'm not an idiot but I have no idea where to even begin. I have a 3D printer and I will need to make small, somewhat simple parts for a couple of projects I'm working on.
That said I forgot 3kkk which has a nice 100 quick tutorial. They are pre V1.0 but should still be useful!
I can't say one or the other definitively, I think it depends on who you like listening to the best. What I would do though is try to do one short tutorial a day for a while instead of longform videos. That tends to yield better learning results.
Thank you!
Honestly?
Unless it is a VERY strong ideological reason, there is no reason to ever subject yourself to FreeCAD. It is an awesome tool but the UI/UX is so illogical that it makes Blender seem sane. And, to be fair, Blender IS sane once you start thinking the right way. FreeCAD you have to think like twenty different ways.
And for 3d printing? If you are windows (or mac?), the free version of Fusion 360 is all you need. If you are Linux things get a bit more annoying but I have found myself genuinely loving OnShape (also apparently the lineage goes back to the tool I learned back during high school). Yeah... everything is theoretically publicly accessible and forkable which is good from a community standpoint and bad from a privacy. But my designs aren't anywhere near good enough for industry to steal and I can always use a code name for anything that I might not want people to know I am working on.
That said, I think there have been a few semi-sketchy forks of FreeCAD that give it a sane UI/UX? I think Maker's Muse did a semi-recent video where he talked about a few of those.
I haven't tried FreeCAD in years. Has it improved much?
It's still a quirky old beast, but it's much improved over the versions from years ago. They finally feel good enough about the assembly workbench, UI improvements, and topo-naming mitigation to release version 1.0.
I feel like it's finally at the point where the issues are minor enough that I have the patience to deal with them. I've been using the release candidates for the last couple of weeks and mostly it comes down to remembering to save regularly and occasionally having to shut it down and restart. Honestly, some of the commercial solutions aren't drastically better in that respect!
I think anyone coming from a place where they have a ton of experience in SolidWorks or Fusion might want to hold out a little longer, though it's definitely worth a try. If you're coming from a place where you have to learn a new program anyway, you might as well learn the free option that will only continue to improve.
It seems quite fully featured to me, and v1.0 was just released
Considerably.