i agree with the below. This is why i wrote, “if you need a free cad/cam system, use Fusion 360. if it must also be open source, then use FreeCAD.”
The Fusion 360 user interface is better. It is not that there are bugs in FreeCAD; it is just that the designers are not good at user interface design. Yes the link below is correct, although it looks to be the same as what I posted. It is one of the simples robot parts I made. A lower leg assembly from a small and cheap quadruped. I would not recommend building it; the motor performance is abysmal. > On Oct 1, 2026, at 3:38 AM, Robin Szemeti via Emc-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've tried FreeCAD a few times ... I'm proficient in SolidWorks, most > Vectric products, I can get by in Fusion, Rhino etc ... but FreeCAD always > seems to be fighting me at every stage. I am sure it is possible to build > the same parts in FreeCAD as you can in SW ... but to get to that point a > new Fusion or SW user might take a couple of evenings of tinkering .. > FreeCAD as someone said earlier .. after 2 weeks of study, you might be > able to make basic parts. To me it feels like it still has a long way to > go in terms of the UI. There are some basic pragmas that have become > ubiquitous for 3D CAD interfaces .. they are a common language that makes > it trivial to move from one system to another, FreeCAD still seems to be > ploughjing its own furrow and the effort to convert is high ... > > On Thu, 1 Oct 2026 at 11:12, Marco <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >> >> Same here. The link is incorrect. The correct one should probably >> be: >> >> https://a360.co/4jDQime >> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
