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the__alchemist • today at 6:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Concur. It's worth explaining this, as someone new to CAD would get the impression the various tools in CAD are on even ground, and may assume "I know programming, so OpenSCAD sounds like the right choice". I would love some day for programmatic and/or free/cheap CAD to be competitive, but we're not there. Solidworks, Fusion, Inventor etc still outclass FreeCAD, which outclasses OpenSCAD.


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MegaDeKay • today at 6:45 PM

I agree with your ordering of the various programs out there but FreeCAD 26.3 is now available as a release candidate with a wonderful collection of improvements. I'd think for many people, FreeCAD is now "good enough" for a lot of things. I'm building a virtual pinball cabinet and the whole thing is modeled in FreeCAD.

Mango Jelly's overview of some of the biggest new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdTyFHY-5r4

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