[TriEmbed] Looking for recommendation

[John Vaughters]

Jeff,

You are going to be disappointed with FreeCAD. Open Source CAD has not and probably will never catch up to paid versions. But for those on a budget and has time, open source is still pretty good and useful.

John Vaughters





On Monday, April 13, 2020, 05:42:37 PM EDT, Jeff Highsmith via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote: 





I haven’t tried FreeCAD, but I have Rhino and SolidWorks at work (designing exhibits for a kids museum, some electromechanical) and I prefer OnShape, for its ease of use (over SolidWorks and Rhino) and its parametric modeling (over Rhino). It’s also great to be able to use OnShape on a variety of devices. My understanding is that OnShape was created by the folks who created SolidWorks.

But now I’m off to download and try FreeCAD.

Jeff :)



>> One more vote for FreeCAD, which I have used for several years, but I will say that I started using OnShape a few months ago and I haven't used FreeCAD since. I love being able to design a part right on my mobile phone.  I still have to use my PC to slice the part before printing, but everything else I do on my phone.
>> 
>      I too use FreeCAD (you can create your objects by coding if you
> are comfortable with python) and openscad. If you are going to use a
> commercial solution, you can choose not to beat around the bush and
> just go solidworks, which has a cheap/free .edu license.  Everyone
> else is measured against solidworkds.


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