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[–] ReasonablePea@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is great! I was impressed with 1.0 but there were a lot of quality of life improvements needed to get it to match the big CAD guys. Looking through this it looks like they've got most of the baseline functions and easy of use accomplished.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I think the 1.1 release is the end step of the original plan started back at the .18 release of fixing the major underlying issues that FreeCAD had. And the mitigating of TPN and the need to redo a fair amount of code to make FreeCAD better. That effort led to the 1.0 release. And the 1.1 release is the result of the cleanup and optimization of the code in FreeCAD. Which is the final step in the roadmap. And the video talks a lot about those improvements in stability, speed, and simplification of use.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

It even does Finite Element Analysis and a separate mode for architecture.