Seeing this image on the tutorial made me realize, FreeCAD seems to be a Technical Geometry Super-Suite. It makes sense that CAD would grow to include all of these things. But I thought sharing the initial perspective of some one who hasn't looked at this stuff in about 18 years might be interesting.

Granted I'm not actually familiar with most of this stuff, and none of it from the POV of FreeCAD. If this can deliver 10% of what I'm looking at, I'm in for a treat.

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[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Seems like a good opportunity to ask if anyone can recommend learning materials for FreeCAD? Used Solidworks and AutoCAD in school but fell back on tinkercad for a recent project just cause I didn't have time to invest in learning.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From my perspective the biggest thing wrong with FreeCAD is that it's a single threaded app in a multicore world. If you load large stuff, the app freezes and one core is working really hard for a while.

[–] Curdie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Solidworks is the same way.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's the topological naming problem. End of.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

That doesn't have me wait for tens of minutes while one core slogs it's guts out and the other fifteen sit there idle.