How does it compare to FreeCAD?
Freecad is made by humans, this is made by claude
Is it? I though OpenCAD predates commercial LLMs by a few decades. Have they switched their development philosophy?
That’s all I needed to hear.
How do you know?
Gross
Is it buggy slop or decent software?
You won’t get an answer from op they’re an unmarked repost bot.
Your question has already been answered, but I’m chiming in anyway, just to express my disappointment that this is not a viable alternative. Freecad is such a struggle for me to use; I used DesignSpark for 3d modeling and conceptualizing large builds, and I lost it when I migrated to Linux (wasn’t much of a loss, they were only making the free version worse). Freecad’s workflow is so foreign to me, and Blender doesn’t seem great for 3d modeling practical parts.
If you would’ve asked me 4 months ago I’d say the same. I come from industry standard software, so FreeCAD was barely usable if you have gotten used to some of the higher grade usability featuers. Skip a few months forward and FreeCAD development has ramped up as if it’s the cure to cancer. The features (especially usability ones) implemented in the last half a year brings it somewhat on par with what a trained engineer would expect.
For example last week they implemented automatically including reference geometry inside sketches, before you had to use a separate step to include them through a projection or intersection with the sketch plane. That is huge. I think in a few years FreeCAD will essentially be a feature complete industry standard CAD program.Performance issues or primarily the way it requires to design something?
Does this function the same/similar as AutoCAD? I’ve used some paid alternatives that functioned exactly like AutoCAD, and I’ve tried librecad, which I thought would be the same, but for some reason it was more tedious to use. It’s been a while, so I can’t remember what made it harder to use, but it’d be great for a drop in replacement for AutoCAD.
Haven’t tried it. But from their website yeah, apparently they try to mimic Autocad.
Good to know, I’ll give it a try this week and see how it goes
If it matters to you, someone else pointed out that it’s heavily built by Claude.
It will definitely play a role. I’ll still try it out and see how it goes, but I’ll weigh my options. Can’t say I’m pumped about that part
