Jeff, You are going to be disappointed with FreeCAD. Open Source CAD has not and probably will never catch up to paid versions. But for those on a budget and has time, open source is still pretty good and useful.
John Vaughters On Monday, April 13, 2020, 05:42:37 PM EDT, Jeff Highsmith via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote: I haven’t tried FreeCAD, but I have Rhino and SolidWorks at work (designing exhibits for a kids museum, some electromechanical) and I prefer OnShape, for its ease of use (over SolidWorks and Rhino) and its parametric modeling (over Rhino). It’s also great to be able to use OnShape on a variety of devices. My understanding is that OnShape was created by the folks who created SolidWorks. But now I’m off to download and try FreeCAD. Jeff :) >> One more vote for FreeCAD, which I have used for several years, but I will >> say that I started using OnShape a few months ago and I haven't used FreeCAD >> since. I love being able to design a part right on my mobile phone. I still >> have to use my PC to slice the part before printing, but everything else I >> do on my phone. >> > I too use FreeCAD (you can create your objects by coding if you > are comfortable with python) and openscad. If you are going to use a > commercial solution, you can choose not to beat around the bush and > just go solidworks, which has a cheap/free .edu license. Everyone > else is measured against solidworkds. _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
