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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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[–] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ondel has a nicer user interface, but I personally use and recommend realthunder's LinkStable branch of FreeCAD. Mainline FreeCAD (and by extension, Ondsel) suffer from the topological naming problem, which can be especially jarring to users coming from proprietary CAD software. realthunder put a lot of work into a solution that handles the problem pretty well, so I'm using his fork until toponaming gets mainlined.

[–] Chreutz@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn't ondsel implement a fix for toponaming as well?

[–] skilltheamps@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

As far as I remember ondsel is working on upstreaming realthunder's approach to freecad, but it is a lot of work to polish up because it touches so many parts of the application.

Here is a nice interview with one cofounder of ondsel where I have this information from: https://shows.acast.com/ohm-podcast/episodes/ep-12-brad-cto-of-ondsel