Title basically.

One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).

Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Drop autodesk. I've got access to autodesk products as an educator, and I've used inventor for years, but I have only had FreeCAD on my system for months. I have not found myself being unable to do anything I could do in Inventor.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I've had issues with FreeCAD being less performant and freezing or crashing when trying to make more complex parts.

    Fairly rare though and I've been able to work around it

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tbf even solidworks crashes when designing complex assemblies

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    While the tn issue is better, personally found I a lot better to not use external geometry at all and instead build my references wrt the base plane. At worst I have to change a sketch attachment, that and doing chamfers absolutely last has saved a ton of grief on some recent models. I hand sketch first, how I learned cad in the first place, that workflow seems to mesh well with it.

    Still the odd crash here or there but I'm accepting of it.

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