I’m using Fusion360, and I dislike it for a lot of reasons, but it’s easy to use. I tried FreeCAD, but it was very janky in comparison. Shapr3D was surprisingly good, but there’s no way I’m paying monthly for my hobby usage. I need precision prints, so I can’t just use Blender or similar.

Is there some magical unicorn software I’m not finding?

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

FreeCAD has possibly the worst UI I have ever used combined with some of the worst UX of any software. But it has every feature I need, it's free and it works (mostly).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't used it in awhile, but OnShape I think had the best UI, for being in a browser.

    There are some macros out there I've found that make FreeCAD a lot better. I kinda wish they had a half-decent reference for macro writing; they'll point you to their unfinished out of date wiki if you ask.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Omg. I swear they rename/move a bunch of things every update so every guide is just a little bit out of date.

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