Anyone aware of a target date for when FreeCAD 1.0 and/or Ondsel 2024.3 will be released?
Background:
I’m coming from using onshape, looking for a local opensource alt. After researching freecad (and forks) it seems if I was to start learning now, I’m in for a significant shift in workflow when 1.0 releases.
In its current state I’d lean towards ondsel.
Kind of putting off the switch till one or both implement the topo naming fix, and the other major ui changes for mainline, so I don’t need to learn two different workflows.
But I’m getting antsy and want to get learning soon.
So toponaming is already in the weekly builds of FreeCAD. My guess is they’re hoping to have v1.0 ready for their Meetup in mid August, but looking at how things have gone historically I’d make a wild guess that it’s more likely to be January or February.
Ondsel has typically jumped ahead of Main, but I have a feeling they won’t won’t with this one. This really is supposed to be the biggie that pulls FreeCAD/Ondsel close enough to some of the commercial packages to start pushing for a larger place in the pro world. Ondsel’s business model depends on it going well, as no one is gonna pay for a PDM system tied to an mCAD system with no fully supported assembly workbench, and that just gives up as soon as a user does something outside best practices.