FreeCAD 1.0 Released

13 points by lightbulbjim 1 year ago | 2 comments

zihotki 1 year ago |

Great achievement! It's a pity that Ondsel was shutdown. I'm very grateful to the Ondsel team, they helped a lot to push gears in the right direction.

From personal experience, it was cumbersome to use Freecad about 2 years ago when I first tried to switch over. But today the experience for a hobby user is on par with other CAD programs. It's not the smoothest (toponaming can never be fully solved AFAIK) but I'm no longer have to redo the work.

WillAdams 1 year ago | |

Worth noting that the Ondsel situation was discussed at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169998

I'm really looking forward to a stable version resulting in approachable documentation. The first traditional 3D CAD program I was even able to get through the tutorial of was Dune 3D https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d/discussions/118 --- hopefully I'll be able to repeat that and build on it in FreeCAD 1.0 (which I've just finished downloading and installing and which is launching now).