Finn

As a medium advanced FreeCAD newbie I sometimes do mistakes which are quite annoying later.

Months ago I made a small DIY antenna adapter, just some padded circles. Those circles had a constrain for the origin's center. Could duplicate and move that body without things being broken. Tried to delete the constrains and replace them by constrains to the body itself, didn't work somehow.

Ouch, lesson learned.

#FreeCAD

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Show threadThe Great Llama 15h ago

@finn
I played around with sketchup for years, which taught me nothing but bad habits. When I got into 3d printing, I realized I needed a real CAD program, so I played around with a few things, but they were all either cost prohibitive, or suffering feature loss on the free tier.

I had tried it before, but I really started messing with FreeCAD when they were beta testing v1.0 and it has been steadily improving by leaps and bounds, somewhat on pace with my learning curve. It's still a bit quirky, but 1.1 is another big step forward and fixes a lot of little gripes I had. It's really turning into a real choice and not just a thing to result to because you're cheap. 😆

Show threadFinn15h ago
@TheGreatLlama Oh yes, I already have heard about some huge improvements in FreeCAD 1.1 but I have to wait a bit more until it will be available in my OS packet manager.
Show threadThe Great Llama 15h ago
@finn
I'm definitely not that patient! 😄
Show threadFinn15h ago
@TheGreatLlama Hm right, there's freecad-git in Arch Linux, maybe I should try that tomorrow.
Show threadThe Great Llama 15h ago
@finn
I've just been grabbing the appimage straight from FreeCAD's github to stay current since they're developing fairly rapidly at this point. i don't go as far as grabbing their weekly builds, but when they're testing a new release candidate I'm on it. That and Orcaslicer also.