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FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!
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Only thing FreeCAD is good for. And then you won't be able to launch the project once an update hits.
It's getting better, and it's critical that it do so, if for no other reason than to raise the floor that commercial offerings have to surpass to retain small-to-medium customers. I haven't committed to it, but I'm rooting for it and following it closely.
Okay, sure it's getting better. But the reality is - you need to be able to depend on your CAD to work. I've used FreeCAD a lot. It simply isn't dependable and can't do the same things a different cad package can. It's parametric only by name.
There's not a single thing you can't do in FreeCAD that you can do in other CAD programs - but you do have to understand how it works and it's limitations.
Which you don't have to do with other programs. There stuff works. In FreeCAD, it doesn't. And no, it isn't as simple as "do it like the tutorials do". Parametrization breaks all the time simply because you want to change a dimension halfway down the stack. It just sucks.