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rcarmoyesterday at 11:50 PM1 replyview on HN

TL;DR: I wish they'd just align with Blender on UX, TBH.

I wish they settled on a nicer UX with less visual clutter. I use Blender and it is a _massively_ more complex application in every regard, yet its right-aligned panel and progressive exposure of toolbars feels infinitely more polished than FreeCad's clunky panel (which is often rendered with huge, oversized fields and buttons) and their legendary five-stacked toolbars.

Feels like that satirical Gillette ad, and is much harder to use and navigate, especially since quite a few UX options need to be turned on in Preferences to be usable...


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jazzyjacksontoday at 5:19 AM

The day I found out there’s a dropdown menu that turns blender into a multi-track video editor on par with Vegas if not Final Cut… blender hides its complexity well.