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Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? (lemmy.radio)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

FreeCad was crashing on average every two minutes when I tried using it last month. I really want to like it but crashes need to be toned down...

Edit: everyone is saying stable builds are fine, but I was just using whatever nixos had packaged. I'd assume that's the stable build but may be wrong.

Also, amd system with up to date drivers so that's not my issue. Maybe sketches are just unstable?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, it definitely isn't suppose to be THAT bad. I can get a crash every half an hour or even longer. Usually for no apparent reason - like when I want to sketch on a face and the app switches from PartDesign workbench to sketcher or wise versa. And then after restart that doesn't happen again. That is annoying, has been happening for ages and would really like it to be fixed. But it's not every few minutes, more like half an hour to an hour.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Install the stable versions not the developer versions. Freecad is seriously good. I'm using both freecad and NX on a project. NX for drawings because freecad still chokes on drawings. But its getting better for drawings. We'll be fully jumping to freecad soon.

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