I’m using Fusion360, and I dislike it for a lot of reasons, but it’s easy to use. I tried FreeCAD, but it was very janky in comparison. Shapr3D was surprisingly good, but there’s no way I’m paying monthly for my hobby usage. I need precision prints, so I can’t just use Blender or similar.

Is there some magical unicorn software I’m not finding?

  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    FreeCAD, runs on a damn potato. Fusion bakes it into charcoal instead. At least that is my experience on a kinda low-end laptop.

    • meowmeow@quokk.auOPEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      Oh, fusion is a heavy beast for sure. I just can’t stand FreeCAD’s interface.

      I just wish someone would make an open source project with sketch based modeling and…. That’s all! I don’t need materials, rendering etc. I literally only need STL export.

      But it needs to be as easy as shapr3d—which is marvelous, but $38usd/m for some stupid reason.