Yes! FreeCAD is amazing and these updates look great. I don't know why so many people are taking this chance to complain about it. You don't have to use it!

The confidence that it won't be paywalled, or enshittified, or otherwise screwed over by a corporation is worth a lot to me, but I think it's fine if that's not the case for everyone. Enjoy whatever else you want to use. Improvements in FreeCAD can only be good for everyone, right?!

Can we get a link to the release article and not post links to some shitty video?

coming from a company that used solidworks, i've always found trying to use freecad infuriating, even moreso after onshape came out and i saw what could be done even in a web browser. but seeing as it's foss, i'll keep trying it every release.

Time to give it another try I guess. I used Fusion almost exclusively until I switched to Linux (and have also used Solidworks in the past), and I found freecad 1.0 to be an exercise in frustration.

I gave it a very solid shot, but after many hours messing with it and watching tutorials I decided to try Onshape instead. I was able to become comfortable and productive in Onshape in less than half the time it took me to lose my cool with freecad.

The 1.1 update looks to be addressing some of the pain points, so they seem to be on the right track. I hope they keep that momentum going.

I've been learning CAD for printing. I really want to use FreeCAD, but every time I try to do anything, I sink 2 hours into reading wiki's and watching videos. When I apply what I've learned, I end up with a cube (sometimes a cylinder!) and a wall of errors. Then I hop into tinkerCAD/fusion360 and create what I need in 15 minutes.

I'm looking forward to the day that FreeCAD is intuitive enough for me to hop in and do what I need in 15 mins without feeling like I'm manually programming a lunar landing. It's not there yet, but I'm happy to see the update.

Wow this looks good

I watched this video and shouted at my screen like most people watch sports or a new tech launch. "Fuck, yeah!" "Goddamn!" "Holy shit that's brilliant." "That didn't make sense but it is really cool anyway!"

Anyway, good job, FC team.

This is great! I was impressed with 1.0 but there were a lot of quality of life improvements needed to get it to match the big CAD guys. Looking through this it looks like they've got most of the baseline functions and easy of use accomplished.

I just want to say this YouTuber got a sub from me last night. Went into his back catalogue and recent videos were really good and I learned a few nice things.

Regarding fc1.1, I really like the update. These guys are on the gas and making substantial updates. I can't overstate how .9 whatever was hard to use vs 1.0 and now 1.1 is another leap again. It's just great to see.

I speak as someone that only started learning any CAD as a hobby in the last 5 years. I've toyed with every (free) program short of going the pirate route and I'm really glad to see a FOSS alternative start to step up.

I do still have a laundry list of things I'd like to see them fix/change. But as is, it's working well enough for my use cases!