And CAD is ridiculously complex. Students also practice like half a year to cope with the proprietary market leaders. I sometimes think people complain because they confuse tools made for professionals with some game on easy mode.
But yeah, FreeCAD also isn’t on par with professional tools. It’s surprisingly capable and has a lot of features. And they made it crash way less. 2 years ago it used to crash several times each project when adding some chamfers or some other easy stuff and I had to do lots of stuff in order or it wouldn’t work. As of now I’d say it’s perfectly usable for the average hobby project. Just don’t expect any CAD software to be usable without any kind of background knowledge. There’s other tools for that kind of 3D design.
FreeCAD still fucks up with chamfers with annoying regularity unless you’re really careful. That being said, it doesn’t crash from it anymore.
That being said, their workflow is way better now. It used to be that you were expected to remember exact locations of vertices, so it was about 20 years of regression from where most other CAD packages were at the time. Now it’s purely graphical and you can actually connect features properly
And CAD is ridiculously complex. Students also practice like half a year to cope with the proprietary market leaders. I sometimes think people complain because they confuse tools made for professionals with some game on easy mode.
But yeah, FreeCAD also isn’t on par with professional tools. It’s surprisingly capable and has a lot of features. And they made it crash way less. 2 years ago it used to crash several times each project when adding some chamfers or some other easy stuff and I had to do lots of stuff in order or it wouldn’t work. As of now I’d say it’s perfectly usable for the average hobby project. Just don’t expect any CAD software to be usable without any kind of background knowledge. There’s other tools for that kind of 3D design.
FreeCAD still fucks up with chamfers with annoying regularity unless you’re really careful. That being said, it doesn’t crash from it anymore.
That being said, their workflow is way better now. It used to be that you were expected to remember exact locations of vertices, so it was about 20 years of regression from where most other CAD packages were at the time. Now it’s purely graphical and you can actually connect features properly