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I was able to completely migrate from Fusion 360 To FreeCAD (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by the16bitgamer@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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Wanted to share this since this was a long Project. Since Autodesk started changing Fusions functionality, from limiting active projects, to changing their terms of service. Since I need a CAD tool for my 3D Printable designs, I started migrating to a new cross platform CAD tool. That happened to be FreeCAD.

Learning FreeCAD wasn't easy, but was well worth my time. And after slowly pecking at it for 11 months, I was able to re-build every design I made (that I cared about).

I've made my 3D Printable designs available on my GitHub if you are interested: https://github.com/the16bitgamer/16BitVirtualStudiosDesigns

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[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Learn how their parametric references. On the one hand it's a bit annoying when you can't click something to use as a reference.
On the other hand being able to use any length as a reference is really nice.

Named dimensions can be referenced for example by: Constraints.MainStrutLength*1.25+20mm Or a pad dimension with Pad017.Length2 (from memory) Or a dimension in a sketch in a pad:
Pad018.Sketch018.Constraints.SecondaryStrutLength4

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

it's a bit annoying when you can't click something to use as a reference.

You mean, that? https://youtu.be/x7_KgeLOcKY?feature=shared

[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You mean, that? https://youtu.be/x7_KgeLOcKY?feature=shared

No, I meant even easier, In a single (more complex) sketch, I can't just reference another dimension by clicking on it (as far as I know at least)

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I think I understand. I generally select a bunch of things and use https://wiki.freecad.org/Sketcher_ConstrainEqual and never thought of selecting the dimensions directly. That sounds like a good idea/convenience indeed :)

[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah that works, but if you want a+20mm or a*1.5 etc, doesn't work so well.

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup, absolutely, it's a good idea. Did you think of creating a feature request on their bug tracker? https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues

[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No, I'm not even sure that this feature doesn't currently exist

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