Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/116117737649974536

I've done everything in TinkerCAD so far.

I've tried a couple of higher-end options, but the learning curve has been RIDICULOUS, and I haven't been able to push through on any of them yet.

TinkerCAD can do a LOT once you dig in. The most common reason I want better tools isn't to make more complex shapes — it’s to have parameters/variables/patterns easily adjustable after creation.

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Thomas Tempelmann

@marcoarment I went from TinkerCAD to FreeCAD, because free. But what a pain that UI is. Imagine the constraints for a 2D sketch being 0-indexed, and errors show only those indexes (and no automatic selection of the constraints), but the items in the list (a) don't show their index and (b) are auto-named with 1-based indexing! Seems to be like this for ages, and no one seems to want to change that. Lots of such illogical issues. I'm slowly learning it, but wow, how stupid can one make this.

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Laurent Mar 2

@tempelorg @marcoarment FreeCAD is indeed very powerful but the UX is terrible.

This said, it is excellent for parametric modeling. If you can overcome the learning phase it will do everything you need and more but you will pay for the result with your blood, sweat and tears. 😅