• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Freecad is so awful though. It breaks all the time and forces you to do things “their way” instead of being flexible. I don’t like having to use it :/

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        9 months ago

        The initial release was in 2002. There is a point where you can’t use the “we’re still making it” excuse anymore.

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          FreeCAD is a complicated program, providing BIM, CAD, and FEM. These and the topological naming problem is why it’s taking a long time to develop.

          Sure, that excuse is “old”, but FOSS is suseptable to stalls/drops when creating complicated programs. (Take Xonotic, still at 0.8.x).

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            Okay, so why do I as a user am supposed to expect bugs in 20 year old software? I simply won’t use it and instead use the industry standard. Yaknow, which doesn’t have those problems and is actually finished.

            When a company is on the line, you don’t work with something that just happens to not work right when you need it to. Excuses and explanations don’t really interes you then.

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              Your’re not. Move to another software or improve it. FreeCAD is nowhere near professinol so using it on a job is dangerous.

              I use FreeCAD because Fusion360 is slow and annoying when exporting.

              It’s your choice to use FreeCAD or not, but shaming FreeCAD that the development is slow is painful.