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FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out (blog.freecad.org)

submitted 21 hours ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/cad@lemmy.world

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They expect to release 1.0 in a week or so.

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I tried the Ondsel flavor, which brought in a few of the 1.0 changes early. Definitely an improvement, but not there yet, IMHO. Still a confusing workflow based on old paradigms and similar-but-different workbenches, and some functionality still just doesn't work that great. I'm a rank amateur who was pleased with himself for finally doing a couple of assemblies, and who generally values cash more than time for hobbies, but I still find it more frustrating than most of the commercial suites.

I got a permanent license for Alibre Design, which I like a lot, but I'm hoping FreeCAD 1.0 will be good for my linux machines and will continue developing for when my version of Alibre feels long in the tooth.