FreeCAD: Your own 3D parametric modeler
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FreeCAD, the open source 3D parametric modeler
  • 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 hours ago

    I like LibreCAD, but it’s a little too simple sometimes. I miss the power of AutoCAD, but I don’t miss its price.

    Three things I want are

    • being able to assign heights to objects and do 3D stuff
    • being able to assign labels to objects (instead of circle3761 I’d like to call it ‘fountain’ or something)
    • splines are really finicky, and you can’t do things like a fillet on more complex objects

    It took a couple of days to get used to and probably a week of use before I was 100% comfortable, but I find that it meets most of my needs now.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I imagine both Libre and Free are open-sourced and easily modifiable? I haven’t looked into it, but if it’s anything like Rhino there should be a standard way of writing custom plugins that should close the gap on some of those - at least the object naming would be easy.

      I’ll look into them though, thanks! BIM software is such a pain in the ass to work with and one of the most expensive design software I know of, I think open sourced projects would be amazing for BIM if they took off like FreeCAD did