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FreeCAD v1.0 released.
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I don't know why Solid Edge doesn't get more love. IMO it's comparable to Fusion for basic part design, and it's fully local.
I actually got a license for Alibre, so I'll keep using that until my hair finishes turning gray.
I was running into some errors with the FreeCAD Appimage in Linux, but the Windows version is running fairly smoothly, and it's finally getting enough helper prompts and heuristic interface things to be less unwieldy, but it's still FreeCAD. For instance, I'm still trying to find the easiest of three or four kludgey ways to project a face onto a sketch, and none of them are as easy as the purpose-built tool for that in Alibre.
~~No free hobby license like Autodesk does for fusion360.~~
There is a free hobby version.
AFAIK at launch they didn't and now the tutorials and people have firmly settled into Fusion360. Unless Autodesk screws up or removes the hobby license it won't change. People are lazy and learning that fusion360 exists is so much easier.
Oh shit, I didn't know Solid Edge existed. I thought fusion was the only free commercial 3D cad software. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.
Edit: Just had a look at Alibre Atom3D, I think I'll give that a try too, the price is reasonable to own forever.
It's, oh jeez, six months old by now, but back in the spring I went through all the ones I'd tried. I ultimately settled on the middle tier for Alibre, with a permanent license. Pricier than Atom, to be sure, but feature complete for any needs I can imagine for myself as an utter amateur.
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