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freeCAD is brep based and scriptable.
FreeCAD via AstoCAD ( https://www.astocad.com/ - 4€/month) is quite more user friendly too, compared to the vanilla experience, for those who want to do CAD sometimes and forget things between uses. It's made by FreeCAD contributors who push things upstream too.
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FreeCAD via AstoCAD ( https://www.astocad.com/ - 4€/month) is quite more user friendly too, compared to the vanilla experience, for those who want to do CAD sometimes and forget things between uses. It's made by FreeCAD contributors who push things upstream too.
Eh. Since the 1.0 release of freeCAD, the UI has been greatly improved. Also subscription services are inherently a turn off.
I'd agree that FreeCAD's UI isn't horrible, but it is a lot to take in at a first glance, and for people who don't use it frequently. If I was using it daily, I'd probably prefer FreeCAD as-is too, better feature density and everything at a glance.
Very cool - what would you recomend in terms of just getting started learning parametric design? It feels like one of my complete blank spots
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> In theory, one should be able to use OpenSCAD to come up with fancy surfaces to 3-D print, right? Yes, but it is painfully slow. Even perforated patterns are quite slow to generate.
OpenSCAD nightly using the Manifold engine is a lot faster than the CGAL crap the stable version ships with