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Freecad sucks. I use it exclusively and it sucks.

But it’s the only foss option and the only Linux option.

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It’s the reason I jumped on a cheap solidworks license, was fully intending to use it as my primary cad package but I just found it kinda clunky. To be super fair, I recall using it years ago and it’s come a long way and I run it on my lab machine because Linux, but even not touching cad programs for almost a decade solidworks was just way easier to come back to.

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Nah freecad still sucks. Change anything deeper and nothing recomputes correctly.

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This is a result of the topological naming problem. FreeCAD currently doesn’t handle this well at all. There’s been a lot of work on this front though - you can use realthunder’s fork which should be a lot better in this regard. Alternatively, you can avoid creating features directly on top of other features, and instead make planes and reference them exclusively.

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The trick for me is constant forced refreshes

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Are you running solidworks on linux ?

I’m interested because I need CAD for my business, I’m running fusion 360 with in a VM ad paying for the license but I would like to move away from it.

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Nah I’m not unfortunately, my desktop is running windows but everything else uses various flavours of debian.

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I’ve noticed that as well. Closest would be blender, but that doesn’t even work on my Linux computer. Because the graphics card or possibly a different card doesn’t support it

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Blender maybe can do some CAD, but its not CAD

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