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[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the reason I jumped on a cheap solidworks license, was fully intending to use it as my primary cad package but I just found it kinda clunky. To be super fair, I recall using it years ago and it's come a long way and I run it on my lab machine because Linux, but even not touching cad programs for almost a decade solidworks was just way easier to come back to.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah freecad still sucks. Change anything deeper and nothing recomputes correctly.

[–] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is a result of the topological naming problem. FreeCAD currently doesn't handle this well at all. There's been a lot of work on this front though - you can use realthunder's fork which should be a lot better in this regard. Alternatively, you can avoid creating features directly on top of other features, and instead make planes and reference them exclusively.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

The trick for me is constant forced refreshes

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are you running solidworks on linux ?

I'm interested because I need CAD for my business, I'm running fusion 360 with in a VM ad paying for the license but I would like to move away from it.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Nah I'm not unfortunately, my desktop is running windows but everything else uses various flavours of debian.