Just dual boot…

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    5 months ago

    For me it’s all about learning freecad so I can look down upon the cloud cad peasants 😹

    For real though I completely agree. Freecad is just a plugin away from having a more accessible UI.

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      5 months ago

      the ui is actually pretty good when you get used to it imo, it’s just that it’s very busy and intimidating for beginners

      I think there should just be a simple builtin tutorial that beginners can access, that guides them through making a cylinder or something to assure them that freecad isn’t as intimidating as it looks

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        5 months ago

        That’s a good idea, and I think that teaching yourself parametric CAD for the first time in freecad is extra difficult because it is easy to do things that look like they may work but actually break you model (especially dragging stuff around in the hierarchy).