They offer a discount $150 for 3 years the $680 full price. 😞 it was bound to happen.

  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    Freecad sucks. I use it exclusively and it sucks.

    But it’s the only foss option and the only Linux option.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the reason I jumped on a cheap solidworks license, was fully intending to use it as my primary cad package but I just found it kinda clunky. To be super fair, I recall using it years ago and it’s come a long way and I run it on my lab machine because Linux, but even not touching cad programs for almost a decade solidworks was just way easier to come back to.

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        1 year ago

        Nah freecad still sucks. Change anything deeper and nothing recomputes correctly.

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          This is a result of the topological naming problem. FreeCAD currently doesn’t handle this well at all. There’s been a lot of work on this front though - you can use realthunder’s fork which should be a lot better in this regard. Alternatively, you can avoid creating features directly on top of other features, and instead make planes and reference them exclusively.

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        Are you running solidworks on linux ?

        I’m interested because I need CAD for my business, I’m running fusion 360 with in a VM ad paying for the license but I would like to move away from it.

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          Nah I’m not unfortunately, my desktop is running windows but everything else uses various flavours of debian.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve noticed that as well. Closest would be blender, but that doesn’t even work on my Linux computer. Because the graphics card or possibly a different card doesn’t support it