I tried it after using solidworks for 15 years (I don't think it was 1.0 as far as I can tell, but it was a month ago) and it's not bad if it's the first kind of CAD you use. It is definitely rough switching from something more polished. If I had more coding acumen, I'd love to help get things more user friendly with some some of the more quality of life things.
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So if FreeCAD was already usable, why’d it take 2 decades to get to a 1.0 release?
LOL...FreeCAD, usable... it was about as usable as sticks for starting a fire, when everyone else was carrying around lighters.
I haven't tried the new 1.0 release, but I've seen random nobodies make solid modeling software in a year that worked better than FreeCAD did just 6 months ago.
Edit: I'm in the process of trying it again and it's still fucking stupid. They call the "ISO Standard" just "Standard" when booting up, when they're listing 8 different "Standards". The standards are ISO and ANSI -- but fuck me, just name it however you like.
Want to see the XY, XZ, ZY planes? -- Nope fuck you, because they're attached to origin for some reason, and hiding and unhiding origin shows and unshows all planes.
Want to right click on the XY plane and start a sketch? No fuck you, because that's not even in the list of options! You've gotta...every time...click the stupid icon in the title bar. Want to pad the sketch you just created? Gotta make you go through an extra step to click that button too - exit the sketch or we're not gonna show you the button to pad/extrude.
God what are these dipshits even doing...even dumb shit like OK/Cancel buttons being on the TOP of dialogs? Why in the earthly fuck?
Bruh I hate freecad too but it doesn't need to be a 100% carbon copy of Fusion. You probably used it a bunch and got used to how it works, but expecting every piece of software to work the same is kinda weird.
The silly thing is, I wasn't talking about fusion at all. I don't even use Fusion, but here I can add it to the list of all the other CAD software that understands workflow.
I was talking about OnShape, Solidworks, Seimens Solid Edge, Inventor, Alibre, Plasticity, SketchUp, you name it. ALL other CAD software works this way. Because that's the logical workflow... I've used them all, and the first time using them is a pain - for sure. FreeCAD is the only one that I KEEP coming back to, because I WANT them to get it right and they never do. I can use all of the other ones I just mentioned, with nary a hiccup in speed.
FreeCAD has been in development for 22 years. Over 2 decades to get this shit right...
If you are actively hampering your users ability to get work done, then your software is shit. If you refuse to acknowledge that everyone is telling you that you need to hammer out these "Death by 1000 papercuts" instances, then your passion will never gain understanding and a following.
Go look at the commit history for the Realthunder branch: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/commits/master/
Then go look at the commits for FreeCAD: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commits
Notice anything? Realthunder is working on problems. FreeCAD is working on, moving functions around...it literally looks like someone shuffling papers in and out of the same 2 piles to make it look like they're working. And people should call them out on it.