𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆There is now a FreeCAD community on Lemmy.ml
HazdazI haven’t found a community on Lemmy for Solidworks and there is one for freeCAD?!?
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.
FuglyDuckPeople just starting out might. Especially if they don’t get liscensed from their schools or jobs.
FreeCAD is way too complicated to pick up compared to other options, IMO, but they’ve always had a strong and loyal community
oct2pusI just watched a tutorial video. Once I figured out how sketching works a lot of other tasks became easier to figure out and intuit.
I do think knowledge is disorganized, version mismatches and a lot of included legacy workbenches are offered which adds to initial confusion and the errors aren't very helpful.
I use the linktree branch though.