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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • Another option if you have a laptop and desktop is to test the waters slowly with the laptop, and keep your desktop as is. It’s what I did for a long while to get used to things on Linux.

    If there is a critical problem with my Linux instalation on my laptop, it’s OK because all the real stuff I care about is still on the desktop. So I’m free to wipe the laptop at a moments notice. It’s the easiest way to learn in my experience.






  • I’m very sorry for your bad user experience! What you’ve described, sounds like some basic user errors which would’ve been easily solved by sticking to good modeling practices

    The most egregious issue I had was in trying to loft between two faces, such that the curve between the faces was a 3D one.

    In Fusion360, it’s pretty damn simple, you click the first face, ctrl+ click the second, then select the loft option. Then it’s pretty much done.

    In FreeCad/Ondsel, in trying to look up a tutorial to see how such an operation is normally done, the only tutorial that got me remotely close was this one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv53D00KdGQ

    Following the tutorial would lead to errors, crashes, and even if it had worked, it is such a painful way to do this operation.

    So this isn’t simply an issue with bad modeling practices. Maybe it’s a terrible tutorial and there is better options out there. But the ease in which it is possible to do this task in Fusion360 should be the gold standard.


  • They fundamentally solve the Topo-Naming-Problem I propose to try again after the next release.

    I’m not super familiar with that problem, as it has been a minute. But I might try to give it another go at some point.

    I don`t know the #Onsel fork. In what way does it differ from #Freecad or Freecad from #realthunder?

    From a user perspective, it has a much more friendly UI in my opinion. When you click on an object, it displays a list of all possible actions you can take with said object. That to me was a huge upgrade over the base FreeCad implementation.