It needs to be faster and more stable. Crashes and slowness are killer issues. Slowness is single core issue. You can see one core working it’s ass off, but the other like 15, sitting doing nothing. Plus it freezes during that often because it’s not async/multi-threaded enough. Crashes, well that’s just bad, but in this case it’s normally when even 48GB RAM isn’t enough. Bloody curved geometry from external sources with massive messes. Needs more exchanging files methods that isn’t mesh based. But also mesh rationalization tools are need too.
Nothing, just some users with sore butts because they’re trained on AutoCAD. We need more Unis to train students with FreeCAD, and this issue will go away.
It sounds like the Swiss government is forcing all State funded engineers to use FOSS, so in curious if that means they’ll all switch to FreeCAD
FreeCad is just OK, but it doesn’t do what pro CAD tools do. I say that as a person that truly believes in opensource, but has also tried all major CAD tools since 1991 onward.
There is so much money behind a pro tool, that the freeCads of the world can’t compete
It is OK, it is just doesn’t do what a highly established pro CAD tool does. if you are used to the pro tools you recognize what is missing and it makes the workflow frustrating and tedious. You can still accomplish your goal in freeCAD, just takes longer and changes don’t auto cascade through to your GCode, etc
What is wrong with an existing FreeCAD? It seemed to me that the project is very active
It’ll catch on at some point. KiCAD did. Blender did. Many other FOSS apps have!
FreeCAD has already merged the solution for the infamous ‘topological naming problem’. The 1.0 release may happen soon!
It needs to be faster and more stable. Crashes and slowness are killer issues. Slowness is single core issue. You can see one core working it’s ass off, but the other like 15, sitting doing nothing. Plus it freezes during that often because it’s not async/multi-threaded enough. Crashes, well that’s just bad, but in this case it’s normally when even 48GB RAM isn’t enough. Bloody curved geometry from external sources with massive messes. Needs more exchanging files methods that isn’t mesh based. But also mesh rationalization tools are need too.
Nothing, just some users with sore butts because they’re trained on AutoCAD. We need more Unis to train students with FreeCAD, and this issue will go away.
It sounds like the Swiss government is forcing all State funded engineers to use FOSS, so in curious if that means they’ll all switch to FreeCAD
FreeCad is just OK, but it doesn’t do what pro CAD tools do. I say that as a person that truly believes in opensource, but has also tried all major CAD tools since 1991 onward. There is so much money behind a pro tool, that the freeCads of the world can’t compete
It is OK, it is just doesn’t do what a highly established pro CAD tool does. if you are used to the pro tools you recognize what is missing and it makes the workflow frustrating and tedious. You can still accomplish your goal in freeCAD, just takes longer and changes don’t auto cascade through to your GCode, etc