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FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

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How can we help FreeCad? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by WbrJr@lemmy.ml to c/freecad@lemmy.ml

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Hey there! I love the idea of freecad. But I have so many troubls learning it. I started with fusion360, used solidworks for some time, used inventor a bit and use onshape mostly now. So I think I know how to navigate and learn new cad software. But its not as easy with freecad sadly.

I Would love this product to be more accessable and easier to use and undertand. What can we do besides jumping in on developing ourselves?

Switching form fusion or onshape to freecad feels like switching from python to assamlby.

So how can we help to improve freecad and make it a more usable program? It seems as if the devs try to reinvent everything and every menue compared to all other cad programs i have used. I am totaly fine with some issues or bugs, but i feel like its not up for success currently.

Thanks a lot, I hope you have some ideas

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[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

i just tried it, didnt understand how to constrain a sketch, and quit to find something more intuitive. why cant my mouse click tell the sketch what it is, instead of manually defining all of it geometrically or whatever. maybe i'm just dumb, but thats how it was for me