Introduction to FreeCAD Part 1: Getting Started | DigiKey

[@JohnOCFII]

Excellent series start! Here's hoping your series can get more folks interested in FreeCAD. I've been focusing on FreeCAD since late 2020, after Fusion experienced the first significant "de-featuring" (especially painful in the Manufacturing/CAM area). As far as CAD goes, I've become quite comfortable with FreeCAD.

[@JamesMowery]

Subscribed! Looking forward to this and more FreeCAD content!

[@spinyuk]

I've been using Sketchup for years to 'draw' ideas for things, but like you say at the start, I am now considering joining the £Dpinter crowd, so very much looking forward to the next nine vids :)

[@manuelofosu]

Bless you Shawn. I'm migrating from Fusion and really needed this. Thank you!

[@ROBOROBOROBOROBO]

You will unfortunately find the entire journey to be very painful. I hope new version is less buggy but in the past it was impossible for me to do anything with it with dumb errors like cant compute, crashes and so on...

[@manuelofosu]

@@ROBOROBOROBOROBO tThanks buh his is sad

[@ShawnHymel]

@@ROBOROBOROBOROBO There are still a good number of bugs, missing features, and missing documentation, which makes some of the more advanced features quite painful to use. That being said, v1.0 is MUCH more stable than previous versions in my experience. FreeCAD is a great tool for simple, static designs--I use it all the time to make quick parts. For something more advanced (FEM, complex assemblies, etc.), I recommend Fusion, SolidWorks, etc.

[@ShawnHymel]

@@ROBOROBOROBOROBO Version 1.0 is MUCH more stable now, but it still has some bugs. I still recommend Fusion, SolidWorks, etc. for doing complex designs, FEM, assembly, etc., but I happily use FreeCAD for simple designs.

[@gryzman]

lovely stuff Shawn

[@lewiscobb7817]

NOTE - V1.0 has now been released 😃

[@SatyajitRoy2048]

V1.1 soon too

[@lewiscobb7817]

@@SatyajitRoy2048 I"m always downloading the "weekly dev" versions and they have some really great improvements in them.

[@GeorgePlaten]

Solid Edge is far more powerful than Solidworks, but is also significantly more difficult to learn. All the main players (not including FreeCAD) use Siemens' solvers, and SE is a Siemens product. Interoperability / file exchange is a key feature needed missing from comparison, IMO. Also, i think Blender's new geometry nodes are a different type of parametric modeling that will be very interesting to watch evolve.

[@ulysisxtr]

Solid Edge is light years ahead of Solidworks in ease of use.

[@atilasatilmis9986]

Which one easier? Ordered or synchronous?

[@kotronics_arts]

So after 20 minutes of BS backstory, you ALMOST GET TO THE PART OF YOUR VIDEO we tuned in for ... and then you completely blow the Getting Started part.