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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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it's called parametric design right?, freeCAD suppports this but I have heard that there is a bug when trying to edit shapes with filet I think?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, this approach is called parametric design. FreeCAD struggled with the topological naming problem for quite some time, which basically means that internally named things, and references to them, can break under certain situations. Exposure to this problem increased as the thing getting molded became more complicated, which seemed maddening from a user's perspective. It seems like it may have been fixed in the main branch somewhat recently, which I was not aware of. That's good news.

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

    They have since released V1 that seems to be pretty solid. Still not 100% but for a free software it is a very useful tool that gets most jobs done

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