I have designed/built a semi-automatic machine for my production and have several 3D printed tools used in that machine. Initially it was a steep learning curve but with the abundance of videos on YouTube and perseverance I am now quite adept at using it. I used my outdated copy of AutoCAD for years until I discovered FreeCAD 5 or 6 years ago. I used Pro/ENGINEER in the early 90's and it was such a wonderful leap over AutoCAD but hugely expensive.
From my point of view, the bugs are its worst disadvantage and some of them are the next ones: the third-party components are sometimes not imported properly, that could be because the design is broken, but I experimented it several times, so I suppose there is some bug or incompatibility the mesh-to-solid conversion sometimes fails when you are designing a 3D part that has some features like chamfers or edge roundings, if you changes the previous steps and it makes the number of faces varies, the part will break down, so its important to keep this bug in mind and do those conflictive features in the last steps of the part design.Ĭomments: Love it. Also it has many integrated tools to work with 3D and 2D designs, you can review models, import many file formats and convert some meshes like STL to a solid.įreeCAD has some bugs and some of the functionality is not very intuitive. Since I am a contributor of other free and open software like KiCad, it's great to have a 3D design tool like FreeCAD. It is for free and there is a great community that can give support to you, with a lot of tutorials in Youtube. I use KiCadStepUp tool to import a KiCad PCB easily and be able to see the entire design with it's electronic part, which includes every electronic component. Comments: I usually work with non-very complicated designs and I am used to created them from the typical 2D sketches, but I can highlight some features I like and the ones that helped me more: it is possible to import an STL file (a mesh) and convert it to a solid, which you can work with later (very useful if you want to modify any design found on the Internet) there are many plugins that help to improve FreeCAD, i.e.
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