Hello!

Wonder myself if there any Linux available and\or open-source CAD that can be analogue to Fusion 360? Or maybe anyone had attempt to make similar one to Fusion 360?

FreeCAD seems to be very unfriendly for me as daily user to get jump into 3D design world. Fusion 360 on the opposite - very easy to manage to intuitively and learn fastly

Thanks

P.S. Yes, beside Blender maybe?

  • tu11ebukk@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Have you seen the tutorials for FreeCAD by MangoJelly?https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUWhaOxsRk_5oPPq00_Y7Dw

    FreeCAD is the most complete open source CAD project you’ll find. I agree it is a steep learning curve, but it pays off to work through it, if you want to 3D print your designs.

    If you want to create 3D models for games, or what not Blender is, as you say a great option.

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      1 day ago

      I watched a tutorial for FreeCAD. Step 1 was “click this button”. After half an hour of searching I couldn’t fucking find that button and that was that.

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        Sounds like either the video you watched was badly made enough that they didnt even use the out of the box configuration, or you were using a completely different freecad version than in the video. Either way that hardly sounds like freecads fault. I watched MangoJellys guides and have had zero issues making models.

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            5 hours ago

            Fair enough, I just don’t want others to read that and assume the software is unreasonably hard to learn.