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Can't even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I'm switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Give Ondsel a try. It's a freecad fork. https://ondsel.com/

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This looks interesting. In your opinion, does it improve on FreeCAD much? I tried FreeCAD some time ago and I felt like an absolute moron

[–] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

One of the big changes in my opinion is the addition of a "Smart Dimension" tool where the system interprets and previews the constraint that you want to apply instead of requiring you to pick the specific constraint ahead of time(almost identical to SOLIDWORKS), and the ability to add constraints such as length while drawing out shapes (like Autodesk Inventor, probably also Fusion but I haven't used that). It makes the sketcher workflow more like other CAD programs and requires a little less manual work with constraints.

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