As long as we don't wanna replay the same fault as we made with f360 we have to keep in mind the difference between free-to-use (commercial) software and really free (literally) opensource software. I am afraid to seddle on a licensed software in the future and invest my time to model my things for hobby use. If you want to be the owner of your files you have to decide for open source. Also "free" use of commercial software, especially cloud based like f360, isn't free. You pay with your work hours as beta tester and they improve the software by analyzing your workfkow and personal data and behavior. At least I decided to go back to freeCad!
@@trickstur5994 yes but I use now the version from realthunder which has solved the topology rename problem and has a lot of improvements compared to the actual official version.
You're doing a great job and well deserve the traffic you are getting due to the F360 licensing changes. I hope you will not spread out into too many different products but stick to some and go deep into them instead. That being said I'll be following your work and thank you for doing this.
Exactly why I never went with Fusion 360. With the next couple of releases of FreeCAD, it will provide everything I need for my shop unless a customer specifically needs another CAD format. Thanks, John
The last release was almost a year ago. The latest pre version has been released on November 2019. You could compile your daily build in theory though.
Thanks.. I'm new in 3d printers and I don't have experience with 3d design, only a few tries with sketchup few years ago and fusion 360 in the last couple of months. For a no experience user like me, fusion 360 was hard and I was thinking to seriously dedicate time to learn it, but after this license change, it was a red flag to look somewhere else because maybe now is not big a deal to a new user like me, but I don't know what happen in the future. Luckily I found freecad and your channel, so here you have a new subscriber, thanks.
Freecad needs a blender foundation equivalent. These are all great alternatives. Regarding designspark they have added constraint and dimension based sketching.
You should definitely give MoI3D a try. It's a very simple interface but has all the basic tools you need. What I really like is that if you're feeling lazy you can actually do everything with the mouse. No keyboard commands needed.
The last versions of Salome Platform now include a parametric modeler (shaper). It does not have tools for producing manufacturing plans, but it is a useful tool for editing step files and conducting FEA simulations
ONShape is not free, although they have a free version, I got a run around by them 1-2-3 years ago. BobCAD has terrible marketing and sales practices. Alibre has a long history as being part of KeyCAD which was good. I tried PTC Creo. I am still learning FreeCAD but I think it's the best. Autodesk is going to pretty much lock down Fusion 360. they just had to get Lars to save face by posting a video with him and the CEO going over the changes, and then deciding to bring back STEP import/export. At least with your free use of Fusion, you're essentially a beta tester while they track you.
There are so much in depht analysis of one software in particular on the internet but almost cero cross platform and horizontal analysis and comparison of different softwares, because of that your colaborrations are specially usefull (with the good old compressor compared between differents CAD programs jaja!) thank you for this useful and interesting work!
Designspark mechanical include now features parametrical sketch and equation function since the last up date, but not time line... it's a great software very intuitive
Well, i like it a lot. Sure it's a dynamic modeller not a parametric modeller ( although they're sketcher options for Sketcher constraints (actually not parametric - just constraints ) and it's previous form of non constraints ), the dragging faces around in section mode is wonderfull. One big downfall is if you need basic exchange abilities, Step file out etc or professional drawings ( drawing module is same as Spaceclaim i believe), then the add-on modules will cost around £800 as a bundled up pair - one-off charge - lifetime licence. But if you just want to use as a hobby and export for Rapid Prototyping with Cura, then that's all free to use. RS ( Radio Spares ) offer it and other electrical / electronic software design packages all linking up mechanical / electrical / electronic parts etc. The structure browser really works well - parts/sub-assys, assemblies all handled very efficiently, lightweight, versionable parts and assemblies all can be replaced with just a couple of clicks. Highly accurate ACIS kernal used.
I used Solid Edge, but the round shapes are horrible in STL / 3MF (3D print files) and now I am looking for something else again. Maybe because I used the free version or maybe because of my lack of CAD skill. My problem with Fusion360 is only the price, which is absolutely enormous for personal use only.
Thank you very much for your time. Ohnestly when Autodesk changed free license I have halted all my projects. I don't want to wake up one morning and discover that I don't have access to my stuff anymore. I will look into DSM also because I can't transision from F360 to FreeCAD easy enough (or at least not immediately, however I want to dig into that). However DSM not being parametric will be a problem down the line. EDIT: Does anyone tried 0.19 dev kit with modern UI?
Fusion 360 is back with STEP export for the free license. Just a heads-up for anyone interested. That said, it really depends on what you do with it. Mechanical engineering for actual real world parts? Buy the fusion license, imho. Designing, just for fun, 3d art or 3d printing? Look-up MOI 3D and Rhino 3D. Moi is really easy to use and fast.
I still have a soft spot for Rhino, except for their upgrade policy kinda went sour so we haven't moved on to 6 at work. I haven't seen another package with the amount of functions Rhino has for curves. Only downside is storing in between models if a client makes a change somewhere in the process since it isn't Parametric.
Joko Great comparisons and suggestions. Don't forget Siemens Solid Edge, there is a student license for Uni students. FreeCad There is a lot to love about Freecad, a very powerful package. Sadly Freecad also comes with a lot of free user interface issues that are particularly non intuitive. I have had the situation where necessary inputs where below the screen, and you had to scroll down to get to these input boxes. Only trouble was, there was no indication of these off screen menu choices. That was 1 year ago. Perhaps things have changed. I wasted a lot of time with FC before finally moving on to F360, Onshape, Solid Edge. The overall feel of Freecad is that 10 different people created 11 different styles of menuing with no one in control of UI cohesion. No project or systems engineering.
I do some modifications of stl files to fit my needs, such as adapting prusa i3 MK3 hotend to my hypercube evolution. Unfortunately FreeCAD does not have push/pull ability which would make that more difficult. Designspark mechanical and Fusion360 both have push/pull and I'll likely be sticking with them until FreeCAD adds push/pull.
I really don't mind paying for the F360, but the price is impossible to maintain. Just for comparison purposes, I'm Brazilian and a hobbyist in the world of 3D printers, I can't pay R$900.00 a month just to make sketches when the minimum monthly income of an average Brazilian is around R$1,100. If I had the possibility of having a license even with less functionality for R$ 200.00/month I think it would be fair. Thanks for the hints, actually, I'm using SparkDesign Mechanical.
Maybe i dont get it right, but when ever i see free or cheap alternatives to Solid works, i miss the "just draw some crapy blue lines on the screen" and AFTER that do the Trick with measurements and relationship of dots and lines. I think thats on of the biggest advantage of solid works
@Max D how could you say that? Designspark is not comprehensiv with solid Works in my opinion. Design Spark work like tipical autocad, you need to draw the line and tell the line while you're drawing it how long it should be... Thats terrible, solid works never bother you with that s*it until you are ready for measurements. If I remember it right at the designspark you don't have a Feature tree with all features ever used on your part...
I’ve been using Inventor for many years and paid the annual maintenance each year. However they terminated my contract to force me into the 360 subscription arrangement. Serious loss of control with that being implemented. One wonders how the major users, aircraft, weapons manufacture have allowed this? So we will try to migrate to a stable platform over the next couple of years, what a pity. Terry - South Africa.
Excellent video and very timely, currently making the move from Fusion 360 to freecad, but experiencing some issues with freecad on a MAC, is there anyone alternative that functions better on MAC than the others? my primary use is hobby woodworking on a CNC so I'm also looking at universal G-Code, but it would be nice to have a built-in g-code sender or at least a handshaking access to a sender without the need to dump g-code into a file and then suck it back in and have to reassign all the bit selections and stop points.
@@Z-add Neither did I until last week. It's a "forever" install (doesn't expire) and is pretty amazing. The only down side is that native Solid Edge files created with the community edition cannot be opened by the commercial editions. Here's a link to the download: www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/solid-edge/en_us/free-software/community
Problem with FreeCAD is that you can't do basic things in it like have model A then at some moment 'place' model B into it and reference it back and use it to continue adding features to A. forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=34806&start=720#p431354 Example. You have a box with apriori given dimensions, place Raspberry into it and add mounting brackets and conector holes to the box.
I have been doing something very like in FreeCad that to make a house for a wemos D1 project. I needed to use multiple "bodies" - one for the case, one for the lid, one for the wemos, one for the led display, one for the LDR - the last three being .step I liberated from "grabcad". And then to get reference edges off the PCB .step (which is now a body), I need to use "shapebinder". This channel has a tutorial video that helped me :). Select the case and make it the Active Body / Active Part, select the imported .step without making it active, and click the blue jelly blob icon called "ShapeBinder" to make a yellow translucent copy that you can then reference in your sketches. And save often, because 0.18.4 what I was using keeps screwing up when my sketches get complex...
FreeCad has it path workbench (CNC milling and turning), 3d print workbench, LC workbench (or the laser cut workbench). So it looks the closest to get one software to do the design and the cam together. Any other (free/opensource) option available to get CADCAM done in one program without the need to export to another?
Unfortunately the community of open source developers for FreeCad does not include enough MacOS developers. As a result, it’s interface functionality on MacOS lags. But kudos to those who have contributed.
I still love Fusion 360, but now it cant run on my 2013 iMac 27" i7 any more,- so I could upgrade my iMac, but this would mean to me that a ton of software will stop working on the newer OS.... so I will find some thing else to replace Fusion..... thanks for the video.
I've never been in the apple eco system, so I honestly can't help a ton. There is a possibility Alibre could be natively ported to Apple OS in the future. Jsketcher is a good open source browser CAD (free) and Onshape if you don't mind your stuff being public domain. Let me know if you find anything interesting.
The personal use license F360 Still has CAM. www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/pricing They took out the stuff that the average home/hobbyist user most likely won't need or use.
@@brandons9138 just because I'm not a professional, I'm still largely dependent of cycle time. If the cycle is taking 6 hours instead of 4, that's time-prohibitive if I also want to keep my day job, especially if you have to babysit the machine. Removal of rapids does exactly that.
@@julian7 With come creative editing there are ways around the no rapids that a commercial shop cant/won't take time to work around. The home user can spend a few extra minutes to work around it.
You mentioned Moi3D but not Rhino? Not fair! I do use Rhino professionally and I think it an amazing piece of CAD software. For the perpetual licence price has no competition! And the Grasshopper module it is just the cherry on the top of the cake! I'm doing 2D drawings much quicker than in AutoCAD and I am using a lot Grasshopper for automating repetitive tasks! The upcoming v7 will also have SubD modelling capabilities besides other goodies. Forgot to mention, they even implemented the Cycles render engine from Blender.
I've been following your FreeCAD tutorials, and came across this issue: ua-cam.com/video/tZYR9AwQU1k/v-deo.html I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but as you know, the orange constraint values are derived from a spreadsheet, and the sketch is fully constrained as it appears in green. However, upon editing the spread sheet, the fully constrained sketch fails. Once it fails, FreeCAD crashes after any subsequent steps. I'm using FreeCAD version .19 on an iMac Pro running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6. Many thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. Greg
AGAIN,,,, the problem is any short term gains can ( and WILL ) be wiped out at their whim.... We have no bargianing rights at all!... Just cut them OFF and change to FREE CAD!... or Blender or some other FREE app. You know FreeCad will be getting better and better... and with a larger user base... better!
Are any of these a good option for modeling cars? I haven't been able to determine if any free options can do class-A surfacing and have good reflection analysis tools.
Same question need free alternative that has advanced surfacing capability. Would be great option if freecad has better UI/UX and Sub-D capability. And also I want to ask, what cad software that has compability with graphic tablet like wacom, xp pen, etc? Thanks.
@@HISEROD yes exactly, I agree with you But I think if there is sub d it makes easier and faster for creating new idea. 😁 Correct me if I wrong, I've try siemens NX there is nurbs and t-spline for class a surfacing. Also CATIA has that too. For now I still wait to try Solid Edge 2021, cause there is free version.
FreeCAD is buggy pile of trash. I was really interested in this program, but after start with it I was constantly fighting with bugs, issues, erros, inconsistenciest atc.
Oh shit... Onshape is PTC.....dude, PTC is the worst team of poisonous snakes. I would not touch anything PTC with a 10ft pole unless you got paid to do so. Don't feed the snakes. Go to FreeCAD.
As long as we don't wanna replay the same fault as we made with f360 we have to keep in mind the difference between free-to-use (commercial) software and really free (literally) opensource software. I am afraid to seddle on a licensed software in the future and invest my time to model my things for hobby use.
If you want to be the owner of your files you have to decide for open source.
Also "free" use of commercial software, especially cloud based like f360, isn't free. You pay with your work hours as beta tester and they improve the software by analyzing your workfkow and personal data and behavior.
At least I decided to go back to freeCad!
Do you still use freeCAD?
@@trickstur5994 yes but I use now the version from realthunder which has solved the topology rename problem and has a lot of improvements compared to the actual official version.
You're doing a great job and well deserve the traffic you are getting due to the F360 licensing changes. I hope you will not spread out into too many different products but stick to some and go deep into them instead. That being said I'll be following your work and thank you for doing this.
Exactly why I never went with Fusion 360. With the next couple of releases of FreeCAD, it will provide everything I need for my shop unless a customer specifically needs another CAD format.
Thanks,
John
The last release was almost a year ago. The latest pre version has been released on November 2019. You could compile your daily build in theory though.
@@julian7 There are fresh developer preview builds for 0.19: github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.19_pre
@@dmitryplatonov Awesome, thank you!
I never knew so many CAD programs existed. Thank you for the informative introduction.
thanks for the video kind person.. its rare to find good straight to the point videos this days
Thanks.. I'm new in 3d printers and I don't have experience with 3d design, only a few tries with sketchup few years ago and fusion 360 in the last couple of months. For a no experience user like me, fusion 360 was hard and I was thinking to seriously dedicate time to learn it, but after this license change, it was a red flag to look somewhere else because maybe now is not big a deal to a new user like me, but I don't know what happen in the future. Luckily I found freecad and your channel, so here you have a new subscriber, thanks.
Freecad needs a blender foundation equivalent. These are all great alternatives. Regarding designspark they have added constraint and dimension based sketching.
Let's wait maybe the fusiongate affair will boost the freeCad development 😉
Hope FreeCAD rewrite to use Blender like UI
@Max D yes the files are local. It isn't cloud based
@Max D yes step support is a paid option. designspark.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/211867685
Thanks! Switching from Fusion360 to FreeCAD.
You should definitely give MoI3D a try. It's a very simple interface but has all the basic tools you need. What I really like is that if you're feeling lazy you can actually do everything with the mouse. No keyboard commands needed.
The last versions of Salome Platform now include a parametric modeler (shaper). It does not have tools for producing manufacturing plans, but it is a useful tool for editing step files and conducting FEA simulations
ONShape is not free, although they have a free version, I got a run around by them 1-2-3 years ago. BobCAD has terrible marketing and sales practices. Alibre has a long history as being part of KeyCAD which was good. I tried PTC Creo. I am still learning FreeCAD but I think it's the best. Autodesk is going to pretty much lock down Fusion 360. they just had to get Lars to save face by posting a video with him and the CEO going over the changes, and then deciding to bring back STEP import/export. At least with your free use of Fusion, you're essentially a beta tester while they track you.
I just comfortable with fusion, using freecad feels clunky for me
Can you tell me more about the BobVad issues?
There are so much in depht analysis of one software in particular on the internet but almost cero cross platform and horizontal analysis and comparison of different softwares, because of that your colaborrations are specially usefull (with the good old compressor compared between differents CAD programs jaja!) thank you for this useful and interesting work!
Designspark mechanical include now features parametrical sketch and equation function since the last up date, but not time line... it's a great software very intuitive
Well, i like it a lot. Sure it's a dynamic modeller not a parametric modeller ( although they're sketcher options for Sketcher constraints (actually not parametric - just constraints ) and it's previous form of non constraints ), the dragging faces around in section mode is wonderfull. One big downfall is if you need basic exchange abilities, Step file out etc or professional drawings ( drawing module is same as Spaceclaim i believe), then the add-on modules will cost around £800 as a bundled up pair - one-off charge - lifetime licence.
But if you just want to use as a hobby and export for Rapid Prototyping with Cura, then that's all free to use.
RS ( Radio Spares ) offer it and other electrical / electronic software design packages all linking up mechanical / electrical / electronic parts etc.
The structure browser really works well - parts/sub-assys, assemblies all handled very efficiently, lightweight, versionable parts and assemblies all can be replaced with just a couple of clicks. Highly accurate ACIS kernal used.
Yeah, it is great, but it doesn't have mirror for solids. That is really bad!
2d dxf drawing export is not free in DesignSpark and confusion360
Another is Solid Edge by Siemens, it's a huge package and free to use for non-commercial.
I used Solid Edge, but the round shapes are horrible in STL / 3MF (3D print files) and now I am looking for something else again. Maybe because I used the free version or maybe because of my lack of CAD skill. My problem with Fusion360 is only the price, which is absolutely enormous for personal use only.
Thank you very much for your time. Ohnestly when Autodesk changed free license I have halted all my projects. I don't want to wake up one morning and discover that I don't have access to my stuff anymore.
I will look into DSM also because I can't transision from F360 to FreeCAD easy enough (or at least not immediately, however I want to dig into that). However DSM not being parametric will be a problem down the line.
EDIT:
Does anyone tried 0.19 dev kit with modern UI?
Fusion 360 is back with STEP export for the free license. Just a heads-up for anyone interested. That said, it really depends on what you do with it. Mechanical engineering for actual real world parts? Buy the fusion license, imho. Designing, just for fun, 3d art or 3d printing? Look-up MOI 3D and Rhino 3D. Moi is really easy to use and fast.
I still have a soft spot for Rhino, except for their upgrade policy kinda went sour so we haven't moved on to 6 at work. I haven't seen another package with the amount of functions Rhino has for curves. Only downside is storing in between models if a client makes a change somewhere in the process since it isn't Parametric.
But besides FreeCAD, which ones do CAM without (many) restrictions?
im not sure but i think non
@Max D Either step or stl, once you convert it into a solid, you can do anything
Have you tried CorelCAD? It’s on sale now on HumbleBundle. Would love to get some feedback on it
I will use FreeCAD and Blender right now. I have a own copy of TurboCAD Pro Platinum and LightWave 3D.
Woo LightWave!
I'd like to point out that Fusion360 owners were offered a lifetime subscription price a year or so ago too. I was smart and took it at the time.
and you trust autodesk not to call that standard and move features to a premium version down the line? i wouldn't
@KampKarl I think it's €270 per year forever.
@@notsonominal And if I need those features I'll pay for that too. I'm not a bum. For the price they're charging, it might as well be free.
I believe FreeCAD is very interesting, and like you I believe that Alibre is really good value. Nice video.
Joko
Great comparisons and suggestions. Don't forget Siemens Solid Edge, there is a student license for Uni students.
FreeCad
There is a lot to love about Freecad, a very powerful package.
Sadly Freecad also comes with a lot of free user interface issues that are particularly non intuitive. I have had the situation where necessary inputs where below the screen, and you had to scroll down to get to these input boxes. Only trouble was, there was no indication of these off screen menu choices. That was 1 year ago. Perhaps things have changed. I wasted a lot of time with FC before finally moving on to F360, Onshape, Solid Edge.
The overall feel of Freecad is that 10 different people created 11 different styles of menuing with no one in control of UI cohesion. No project or systems engineering.
I do some modifications of stl files to fit my needs, such as adapting prusa i3 MK3 hotend to my hypercube evolution. Unfortunately FreeCAD does not have push/pull ability which would make that more difficult. Designspark mechanical and Fusion360 both have push/pull and I'll likely be sticking with them until FreeCAD adds push/pull.
There is someone tryong to implement it, but is going to take time, i think the add on is called Design 456
I really don't mind paying for the F360, but the price is impossible to maintain. Just for comparison purposes, I'm Brazilian and a hobbyist in the world of 3D printers, I can't pay R$900.00 a month just to make sketches when the minimum monthly income of an average Brazilian is around R$1,100. If I had the possibility of having a license even with less functionality for R$ 200.00/month I think it would be fair.
Thanks for the hints, actually, I'm using SparkDesign Mechanical.
Maybe i dont get it right, but when ever i see free or cheap alternatives to Solid works, i miss the "just draw some crapy blue lines on the screen" and AFTER that do the Trick with measurements and relationship of dots and lines.
I think thats on of the biggest advantage of solid works
@Max D how could you say that? Designspark is not comprehensiv with solid Works in my opinion. Design Spark work like tipical autocad, you need to draw the line and tell the line while you're drawing it how long it should be... Thats terrible, solid works never bother you with that s*it until you are ready for measurements. If I remember it right at the designspark you don't have a Feature tree with all features ever used on your part...
@Max D i will Check this, Thank you, at least everything is more intuitive than openscad :-)
I’ve been using Inventor for many years and paid the annual maintenance each year. However they terminated my contract to force me into the 360 subscription arrangement. Serious loss of control with that being implemented. One wonders how the major users, aircraft, weapons manufacture have allowed this?
So we will try to migrate to a stable platform over the next couple of years, what a pity. Terry - South Africa.
Excellent video and very timely, currently making the move from Fusion 360 to freecad, but experiencing some issues with freecad on a MAC, is there anyone alternative that functions better on MAC than the others? my primary use is hobby woodworking on a CNC so I'm also looking at universal G-Code, but it would be nice to have a built-in g-code sender or at least a handshaking access to a sender without the need to dump g-code into a file and then suck it back in and have to reassign all the bit selections and stop points.
Really, no mention of Solid Edge community edition?
@@Z-add Neither did I until last week. It's a "forever" install (doesn't expire) and is pretty amazing. The only down side is that native Solid Edge files created with the community edition cannot be opened by the commercial editions. Here's a link to the download: www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/solid-edge/en_us/free-software/community
And the tutorials are excellent, even did some of the exercises they provide, really helps fix the lessons in your head!
@@f15sim they even have a free version for startups. It's amazing how effective Autodesk marketing is. Hardly anyone noticed solid edge.
I gave Solid Edge a spin. Pretty impressive. I'll stick to it.
*if* I move to a new platform? I'm here because all my stuff is already in boxes :P
(great comparison, thanks!)
Problem with FreeCAD is that you can't do basic things in it like have model A then at some moment 'place' model B into it and reference it back and use it to continue adding features to A.
forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=34806&start=720#p431354
Example. You have a box with apriori given dimensions, place Raspberry into it and add mounting brackets and conector holes to the box.
I have been doing something very like in FreeCad that to make a house for a wemos D1 project. I needed to use multiple "bodies" - one for the case, one for the lid, one for the wemos, one for the led display, one for the LDR - the last three being .step I liberated from "grabcad". And then to get reference edges off the PCB .step (which is now a body), I need to use "shapebinder". This channel has a tutorial video that helped me :). Select the case and make it the Active Body / Active Part, select the imported .step without making it active, and click the blue jelly blob icon called "ShapeBinder" to make a yellow translucent copy that you can then reference in your sketches. And save often, because 0.18.4 what I was using keeps screwing up when my sketches get complex...
Thanks you ! Issue solved
It's a shame that FreeCAD is so unstable and has so many UX WTFs.
FreeCad has it path workbench (CNC milling and turning), 3d print workbench, LC workbench (or the laser cut workbench). So it looks the closest to get one software to do the design and the cam together. Any other (free/opensource) option available to get CADCAM done in one program without the need to export to another?
Unfortunately the community of open source developers for FreeCad does not include enough MacOS developers. As a result, it’s interface functionality on MacOS lags. But kudos to those who have contributed.
Hello.. where are you come from JOKo engineering?
Thank You
I still love Fusion 360, but now it cant run on my 2013 iMac 27" i7 any more,- so I could upgrade my iMac, but this would mean to me that a ton of software will stop working on the newer OS.... so I will find some thing else to replace Fusion..... thanks for the video.
I've never been in the apple eco system, so I honestly can't help a ton. There is a possibility Alibre could be natively ported to Apple OS in the future. Jsketcher is a good open source browser CAD (free) and Onshape if you don't mind your stuff being public domain. Let me know if you find anything interesting.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Thanks. Its all fine. I will find out how to move on from here. Cheers. Great job.
It’s the CAM side of Fusion I’m going to miss, any alternatives for that?
FreeCAD has the path workspace?
SolveSpace can output G-code for 2d parts.
The personal use license F360 Still has CAM.
www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/pricing
They took out the stuff that the average home/hobbyist user most likely won't need or use.
@@brandons9138 just because I'm not a professional, I'm still largely dependent of cycle time. If the cycle is taking 6 hours instead of 4, that's time-prohibitive if I also want to keep my day job, especially if you have to babysit the machine. Removal of rapids does exactly that.
@@julian7 With come creative editing there are ways around the no rapids that a commercial shop cant/won't take time to work around. The home user can spend a few extra minutes to work around it.
You mentioned Moi3D but not Rhino? Not fair! I do use Rhino professionally and I think it an amazing piece of CAD software. For the perpetual licence price has no competition! And the Grasshopper module it is just the cherry on the top of the cake! I'm doing 2D drawings much quicker than in AutoCAD and I am using a lot Grasshopper for automating repetitive tasks! The upcoming v7 will also have SubD modelling capabilities besides other goodies. Forgot to mention, they even implemented the Cycles render engine from Blender.
If you include rhino then you have to include modo, formz etc and then list goes out of control.
Any good modelling from technical drawing tutorial for Rhino?
@@Z-add modo it is not Cad
@@Z-add modo is not nurbs based. form z lacks parametric capabilities rhino has with grasshopper.
What about CAM? Are there any decent free or affordable options?
I've been following your FreeCAD tutorials, and came across this issue:
ua-cam.com/video/tZYR9AwQU1k/v-deo.html
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but as you know, the orange constraint values are derived from a spreadsheet, and the sketch is fully constrained as it appears in green. However, upon editing the spread sheet, the fully constrained sketch fails. Once it fails, FreeCAD crashes after any subsequent steps.
I'm using FreeCAD version .19 on an iMac Pro running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6.
Many thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
Greg
what are your thougts on CREO?
What about us that needs a cam package?
AGAIN,,,, the problem is any short term gains can ( and WILL ) be wiped out at their whim.... We have no bargianing rights at all!... Just cut them OFF and change to FREE CAD!... or Blender or some other FREE app. You know FreeCad will be getting better and better... and with a larger user base... better!
Are any of these a good option for modeling cars? I haven't been able to determine if any free options can do class-A surfacing and have good reflection analysis tools.
Same question need free alternative that has advanced surfacing capability.
Would be great option if freecad has better UI/UX and Sub-D capability.
And also I want to ask, what cad software that has compability with graphic tablet like wacom, xp pen, etc?
Thanks.
@@aditya.pratama I wouldn't call sub-D "advanced surfacing." It's ok, but it can't do what NURBS and T-spline in a parametric modeler can do.
@@HISEROD yes exactly, I agree with you
But I think if there is sub d it makes easier and faster for creating new idea. 😁
Correct me if I wrong, I've try siemens NX there is nurbs and t-spline for class a surfacing. Also CATIA has that too.
For now I still wait to try Solid Edge 2021, cause there is free version.
Hi,
All CAD modeling can be done in Blender except tangent snapping (done personally in Moi3D).
Cheers.... John
I find Blender painful for technical modelling and are not aware of parametric support - is there?
@@tcurdt Depends what you're aiming for...
i will never pay to any company an annual payment.. this is exploitations at its best . unless i really made lots of money out of it
FreeCAD is buggy pile of trash. I was really interested in this program, but after start with it I was constantly fighting with bugs, issues, erros, inconsistenciest atc.
Oh shit... Onshape is PTC.....dude, PTC is the worst team of poisonous snakes. I would not touch anything PTC with a 10ft pole unless you got paid to do so. Don't feed the snakes. Go to FreeCAD.
FreeCAD has a horrid interface, much like most open source software.