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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Open source CAD software is basically useless. As someone who has tried every few years to use open source alternatives for personal projects, I always end up paying for an AutoCAD or Fusion 360 license.

My professional background has always been higher end software like Siemens NX, Solidworks, Inventor, & AutoCAD.

LibreCAD is the closest I ever got to something that seemed useful for 2D. I hate FreeCAD, QCAD, BRL-CAD, etc. Many open source projects waste so much time to do simple tasks and buck standard methodologies for their own spin on how they think you should design.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Opensource works best when there's demand and a lot of people mostly developers want that software. For CAD it's just that not much people need it and those who need it are rarely also developers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I've been using Blender and Freecad which has a bit of a learning curve. Heck, I'm still learning