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I've been learning it thanks to this amazing tutorial series by a guy named mangojelly.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuyJLVUNtc0UszswD0oD...

freeCAD had a critical issue in topological naming (they are working on a fix as we speak and it's going to be out "soon"), and it's hideously clunky. Basically, when you resize a sketch and that causes more faces to be created it makes all your other stuff go crazy.

You can also use realthunders branch which fixes the naming issue as well.

Mangos videos teach you a bit how to think reasonably though freecads infuriating errors, too. The guy is worth a watch if you want to start using the best open source tool.

freeCAD sucks, until you learn it, and then it works alright. Learn to use data planes instead of sketch on face and the topo naming isn't even an issue anymore.

parent bioemerl 3 years ago

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