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FreeCAD v1.0 released.

blog.freecad.org FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released - FreeCAD News

After more than twenty years of intense and sustained development, the FreeCAD community is proud to announce the release of version 1.0. FreeCAD 1.0 is now available for download on all platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5oXSGhK7EY In software development, version 1 usually means: our soft...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22260935

Let's take her out for a spin...

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Hopefully one day it'll get an easier ui for fusion 360 and Solid Edge users (like myself). I really want to use free cad but every time I try it's super frustrating to do even basic things and often takes so many extra steps I just end up cading it up in solid edge instead
- I don't know why Solid Edge doesn't get more love. IMO it's comparable to Fusion for basic part design, and it's fully local.
  I actually got a license for Alibre, so I'll keep using that until my hair finishes turning gray.
  I was running into some errors with the FreeCAD Appimage in Linux, but the Windows version is running fairly smoothly, and it's finally getting enough helper prompts and heuristic interface things to be less unwieldy, but it's still FreeCAD. For instance, I'm still trying to find the easiest of three or four kludgey ways to project a face onto a sketch, and none of them are as easy as the purpose-built tool for that in Alibre.
  
  Oh shit, I didn't know Solid Edge existed. I thought fusion was the only free commercial 3D cad software. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.
  
  Yeah I wish Solid Edge got more attention! It's absolutely comparable to Fusion, just the slightest bit more convoluted. I love it because I don't have to deal with the cloud garbage, and constant sign outs on fusion.
  I'll have to give Alibre a try it looks nice from what I saw on their website! Do you know by chance if it supports 3mf's?
  
  I don’t know why Solid Edge doesn’t get more love.
  ~~No free hobby license like Autodesk does for fusion360.~~
  There is a free hobby version.
  AFAIK at launch they didn't and now the tutorials and people have firmly settled into Fusion360. Unless Autodesk screws up or removes the hobby license it won't change. People are lazy and learning that fusion360 exists is so much easier.

I've really been looking forward to this! This announcement post is really sweet, and makes me glad for all the folks who worked on it.

Just tried it out, there have definitely improvements been made since I last tried it, I'm happy to see it get better.

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