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 (1 child)

FreeCAD, runs on a damn potato. Fusion bakes it into charcoal instead. At least that is my experience on a kinda low-end laptop.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago

    Oh, fusion is a heavy beast for sure. I just can’t stand FreeCAD’s interface.

    I just wish someone would make an open source project with sketch based modeling and…. That’s all! I don’t need materials, rendering etc. I literally only need STL export.

    But it needs to be as easy as shapr3d—which is marvelous, but $38usd/m for some stupid reason.

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