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1. #BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD HOW TO#
2. #BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD PATCH#
3. #BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD PRO#
4. #BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD SOFTWARE#

once I find it, as FreeCAD will prioritize the spreadsheet's own parameters like cell padding, grid color and font size above user-named cell values. And the entry will open a suggest-as-you-type box where I could pick "fieldname". Someone on FreeCAD hated it, so now I can either use the immutable name "Spreadsheet", or give it an alias and type >.fieldname. It used to be so I could rename my spreadsheet to "p" and reference its fields by p.fieldname.

I want parametric design using the built-in spreadsheet. Just activate the body the selected sketch is in, and extrude there, please. No, don't show me a long paragraph on why I can't. Yes, I know I can't create a new extrusion from a sketch that is in another body than currently active. What is bad, that it completely lacks the intuition to guess what you want, and requires you to do a lot of bookkeeping a good program would easily guess. Unintuitive not so much in the meaning "you don't have the intuitive feeling where what is" - eh, that too, but it's not that bad. Until then, the "intuitive" approach will blow up in your face. Instead, you must painstakingly create and place new datum planes instead of mapping a sketch to a face, or duplicating calculations instead of importing external geometry. FreeCAD has some very friendly, nice features that turn into ticking time bombs if you use them, completely breaking your project if you make a small change to something early on.

#BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD HOW TO#

Know the Topological Naming Problem and how to mitigate it. It'll take twice as long, but IMO using it (and contributing to its community, even just through forums) can only help it improve.įreeCAD is not great, but not horrible either.

That said, if you're more into it as a hobby/for personal projects, have at it. I want it to succeed, and hope that in 5 or so more years it might get there, but for now I'd never use it in a professional setting in its current form. I continue to force myself to use it because I want it to succeed, improve, and offer the first real native linux, open source, good CAD platform.Īs much as I like using Fusion, I hate the cloud component and having to 'rent' software. It is very constraint driven (similar to Fusion), but is picky about ensuring that designs are fully constrained.įrom an open source perspective, FreeCAD feels like Inkscape (open-source illustrator alternative) was 8 or so years ago.

#BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD PRO#

Also, am very pro open source/run linux as my daily driver/etc.įreeCAD can do anything I need it too but it will take me twice as long. Is FreeCAD really that bad? It seems to be perfect for my needs.įor some background: Hobbyist, been using AutoCAD since I was a child due to an engineer parent, primarily use Fusion360 currently but use FreeCAD occasionally, and have briefly used others. Reading things that like scare me off a bit, but it seems there is no better alternative.

#BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD PATCH#

I understand that there is a big bug in it that causes faces to move around, but it seems that there is a patch for it (Thunberbird or something like that). However, I keep reading that FreeCAD is hard to use and sucks. I am also going to use Blender, but I have seen that is better for organic designs as opposed to mechanical designs.

#BEING PRODUCTIVE USING FREECAD SOFTWARE#

The only other software that seems to fit my needs is OpenSCAD, but the programming aspect is a bit of turn off for me.