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We are shutting down Ondsel

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316 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 05:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.365s | source
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IshKebab ◴[18 Nov 24 09:13 UTC] No.42170907[source]▶
Unfortunate but extremely predictable. The commercial market for CAD cares about CAD that actually works, not free software ideals. FreeCAD is simply not in the same league as commercial CAD like Solidworks, NX, Creo, etc. IMO it's not even in the same league as SolveSpace, at least last time I used it (which was admittedly some years ago).
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1. LordHeini ◴[18 Nov 24 09:46 UTC] No.42171049[source]▶
It was absolutely worth a try.

Blender suffered the same sort of issues as FreeCAD does, but managed to get out of the slump.

It is often important to have a main player enforcing proper, unified UI/UX and fix the many small problems and bugs which drive users away. Sadly it is usually an issue with long running and highly complex open source software that it gets really fragmented. You see that in every function having its own button or workspace, inconsistent naming, functions which do the same but slightly different and things working differently depending on some context where they really should not.

Thanks to the people from Ondsel it felt like FreeCad would be on a similar route to Blender. It was way more user friendly thankfully there has been major back porting.

So there has been a lot of progress especially with the upcoming 1.0. You should give one of the Release Candidates a try. I use it for my 3D printing projects and it works pretty well.