Yes, solidworks is expensive ... good but expensive. SolidCraft looks good! The "feature tree" is a bit weird, it's along the bottom of the screen, but it works.
Vectric Cut2D Desktop is worth a look too ... https://www.vectric.com/products/cut2d/ Drilling, pocketing, internal and external profiles and easy simple 2D drawing ... On Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 15:20, maurice e heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/13/26 08:12, Robin Szemeti via Emc-users wrote: > > I think you are confusing it with something else ... Solidcraft is free > and > > Open Source ... and it's only been around for a week! > YUou could be correct, ISTR it was solidworks , similar name. > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 12:50, maurice e heskett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On 10/13/26 05:52, Dmitry Yurtaev wrote: > >>> just stumbled upon this: > >>> > >>> https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft > >> I looked at that, dl-ed the crippled free version but couldn't figure > >> out how to make it work, in the 30 day live time built into the free > >> dl. Worse, they filled my inbox daily for around 2 years wanting to > >> force me to buy a seat for several hundred $ I didn't have at the time. > >> That left me with a very bad after taste. I deleted the freebie a few > >> weeks later, but the emails kept pouring in. 2 or 3 at first, upto 10 a > >> few weeks later. I finally sent them a nastygram. > >>> i'd say that's impressive for a one week coding job. also a number of > >> adobe > >>> apps clones: > >>> > >>> https://github.com/storytold > >> Some of that might be interesting but didn't dl any of it. Each reads > >> as if it cannot do anything else. > >>> /dmitry > >> Cheers, Gene. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Emc-users mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >>> . > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > . > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
