2y ago

There is now a FreeCAD community on Lemmy.ml

!freecad@lemmy.ml

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Nice! More people using it is more better. Anything to prevent the inevitable enshittification of Fusion 360.
I haven't found a community on Lemmy for Solidworks and there is one for freeCAD?!?
- Not exactly surprising, lemmy users are pretty big on open source.
  
  pretty big on open source.
  Yeah, well we all make bad decisions once in a while.
  Still doesn't explain why no Solidworks community seeing as how it's the most used CAD program.
- Think about where you are. Solidworks costs many thousands of dollars for a licence. FreeCAD is free. Which one do you think the vast majority of Lemmy users would use?
  
  Solidworks.
  By far.
  It owns 1/4 of the CAD market all by itself. No one, and I mean no one, who uses CAD for a living is going to waste their time with FreeCAD.
- Id like to see solidworks community on lemmy
  
  Or oven better CAD modeling community.
- Join us, you'll only think in constraints and geometry the true Gods of this existence.
- Try out CAD Sketcher in Blender. They've achieved in approximately 6 months, what has taken FreeCAD 20 years to ultimately fail at. Yeah...FreeCAD has been around for 20 years and is still as bad as it is.
  
  I'm glad you found something that works for you but there's really no reason to put down anyone's effort and hard work. Freecad may be rough around the edges but it's put cad in more peoples hands then Autodesk ever well.
Are you even allowed to post anything else than parametric 3D model of stalin?
- Of course, you can also post a model of Lenin or Marx, or of the proletariat.
- I could easily add a new rule if you'd like
  riodoro1 is only allowed to post parametric 3D models of Stalin
Thanks I've been looking for this
if only there were enough people using solid edge to have a community around it 😭

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