Haven’t tried it. FreeCAD is basically a “whole package” cad system, but it just doesn’t work quite often. You try to change a dimension and the entire model just explodes. You add a filet and a refference disappears because an edge now has a different name for some reason.
If you go from the start to the end and don’t change anything, maybe don’t do something complicated, then it’s “simply” really annoying to use. If you do anything else, then it becomes impossible, with you fixing stuff more time than you actually model what you want to.
Yeah, well. That’s the issue with it quite often - without money you get programmers that are willing to work for free. Which more often than not makes them either push “their way” to do something due to elitism, or implement something unintuitively or straight up broken. The advantage of it is though - I don’t have to pay thousands of euro for FreeCAD like I would for Solidworks. And if you work at a company that as a goal / values has “only free open source software” then you get what you get.
How does it compare to Onshape?
Haven’t tried it. FreeCAD is basically a “whole package” cad system, but it just doesn’t work quite often. You try to change a dimension and the entire model just explodes. You add a filet and a refference disappears because an edge now has a different name for some reason.
If you go from the start to the end and don’t change anything, maybe don’t do something complicated, then it’s “simply” really annoying to use. If you do anything else, then it becomes impossible, with you fixing stuff more time than you actually model what you want to.
FOSS is so cool
Yeah, well. That’s the issue with it quite often - without money you get programmers that are willing to work for free. Which more often than not makes them either push “their way” to do something due to elitism, or implement something unintuitively or straight up broken. The advantage of it is though - I don’t have to pay thousands of euro for FreeCAD like I would for Solidworks. And if you work at a company that as a goal / values has “only free open source software” then you get what you get.