From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 12/4/2025 6:04 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
      
   > How relatively difficult is FreeCAD?   
      
   I have used to other 3D CAD systems with some success.  Fusion and   
   ViaCAD.  I found the strictly parametric modeling of Fusion slow and   
   restrictive.  Use that as a basis for evaluating if ther eis any vlaue   
   in my opinion of FreeCAD.   
      
    From what I have "seen" it is very powerful, but I have failed to   
   complete any work with it.*  It has a steep learning curve couple with   
   different standards and interface look/feel in different modules.  I   
   guess there are some "skins" that can reduce some of that or be selected   
   so atleast part of it has a similar feel to some other CAD program you   
   may already be familiar with.  I never got to the point of seeing that.   
   The steep learning curve is partly because there is a lot power there,   
   partly because it was created by coders who may or may not have had   
   design backgrounds, and partly because it is open source with lots of   
   add-ons written be different people who wrote their own part to suit   
   themselves.   
      
   *Well, I did use it to analyze some third party surface meshes, but I   
   didn't actually succeed in repairing them.   
      
   FreeCAD may very well be the most cpable free CAD there is, but as has   
   mentioned the learning curve is steep.  It may very well be more capable   
   than many commercial CAD programs.   
      
   I have a FreeCAD icon on my desktop, but I can't recall the last time I   
   opened the program.   
      
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