I am trying to switch from Fusion/Inventor/OnShape to FreeCAD, because I just can’t afford the business licenses. And man, it’s hard to learn. Everything has to be constrained correctly or it won’t extrude (which seems pretty great once you understand it, but phew). Fusion etc. really don’t care abo…

[IMG_20260222_171807] First FreeCAD project nearly done. Gaming table for my brother. :slightly_smiling_face: From one sheet of 18mm plywood.

There’s one in the Add-ons. I didn’t test it out yet.

Speaking of FreeCAD oddity… Why, oh why, when I changed the big length on the left side from 110mm to 130mm did FreeCAD decide to flip the tangent constraint on the circles at the bottom from the outside edge of the rectangle to the inside edge??? I had to add the 5mm reference constraint to keep th…

[image] David Walling: Why, oh why, when I changed the big length on the left side from 110mm to 130mm did FreeCAD decide to flip the tangent constraint on the circles at the bottom from the outside edge of the rectangle to the inside edge??? Good question. I’d be curious to see the Sketch (…

I keep watching mango design from excel sheets and I need to try that, so easy to make a change then! Wait, wait, I said excel, I guarantee that is wrong! Spreadsheet should be what I said :wink:

Looks like v1.1 RC3 came out a few days ago. [image] Release FreeCAD 1.1 Release Candidate 3 · FreeCAD/FreeCAD This is the third complete build of FreeCAD 1.1, representing the past year of work of nearly 300 developers, over 100 translators, and hundreds of documentation writers, teste…

[image] Tylas: I may have to ask you for that macro someday! It looks like they are working on something that works like this in Freecad 1.1rc2, but I get a crash about 30% of the time I use it. Other times it will say “yeah there is a break there”, but “no I can’t fix it though”…. I finally …

Wow, just watched this, it is very good. Do recommend for any learners out there [image]

[image] RockinRiley: Wow, just watched this, it is very good. This video is awesome, I was going to post it myself. I just spent the morning reworking my FreeCAD interface based on this video. I would vote that this video is time well spent for a new FreeCAD user. I am personally at the po…

[image] P H: My software being controlled or accessed by external entities just gives me spine tingles that I don’t like. I will never have an Alexis or RingCam or any of these cloud controlled tools having free reign in my home either, but that is just me. Great thing about freedom, you do you.…

FreeCAD is hard

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jeyeager (Jason Yeager) February 27, 2026, 3:25am 99

Looks like v1.1 RC3 came out a few days ago.

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