I knowww I know save your forks and torches but I’m in the middle of a fully 3D printed homelab project and I can’t afford to start learning FreeCad just yet.
Everytime I even begin to think about using windows on my second laptop makes me kick and scream, its genuinely vomit inducing and its keeping me from finishing my project.
The state of FreeCAD after the 1.1 release is absolutely excellent!
EDIT: Just read your full question. Anyway, after your done with this project, I highly suggest the migration. I recently did it and am not looking back. I just exported all my Fusion designs as step files and can open them in FreeCAD, though not wothbthe full parametric history.
Thanks for the tip. Just watched a bunch of 1.1 tutorial videos and it actually seems like it could be a better workflow for my use cases than Fusion, plus it also does BIM.
I’m nearly at the end of my journey to boycott Adobe and Autodesk for good. I dropped 3dsmax for Blender a while back after Autodesk attempted to audit me. They demanded I download an app that would collect detailed information about my computer, so I said go fuck yourself, uninstalled and canceled my paid subs, then downloaded Blender and besides missing V-ray and Forestpack, has been a much better experience.
I’ll have to try it again at some point. I found it kinda brutal last time I tried it, and was gonna just try the blender plugin that adds some parametric features next time
If things have improved I guess I’ll have to give it another go at some point
It was the same for me, but 1.1 made a huge leap in usability
Holy shit, you aren’t kidding, I don’t know how I missed news about 1.1, it’s a huge improvement.
There’s still some limitations that I’ve run into fyi. It’s certainly better than 1.0, but it still has lots of room for improvement
Thats super exciting to hear, I’m glad you mentioned it ☺️
that’s what I’m definitely doing after this project, I’m tired of proprietary software and fusion is the last thing I need to cut off
You can run it through Winboat or via a standard VM, but like Adobe they hate you running it via Wine, and will try to block you from doing so.
So your best bet will be VM+GPU passthrough.
Does winboat have GPU pass through yet?
Its not FOSS but it works great on Linux in the browser… OnShape
If you happen to have an education account, you can stream it through your browser.
didnt know that, I’ll try this
