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20-08-2013 #1
I spent about a week recently learning some of Freecad.
It is a very powerful program and i found it to be a steep learning curve.
It plainly says its not production ready and there will be bugs. I found quite a few which made using it very tiresome.
As i was only doing simple stuff i switched to Sketchup, which is great and a lot faster for the stuff i wanted.
Freecad has the potential to be very powerful and useful , hopefully it will mature soon.
I dont' have much experience with commercial 3d cad so couldn't say how it stacks up against the likes of Alibre & solidworks etc.
I'm certainly going to keep my eye on it.
Cheers
Greeny
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20-08-2013 #2
Draftsight is by far the nicest free CAD package I've used. It's by the same company that release SolidWorks. Never used SolidWorks, so can't comment on that but I hear it's the canine's wotsits...
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20-08-2013 #3
I agree for a 2D package, but the OP wanted 3d!
I use Draftsight for all my 2D work and my CNC workArt
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