I thought I would knock some dust off my drafting skills after a small chat with @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

Seeing this image on the tutorial made me realize, FreeCAD seems to be a Technical Geometry Super-Suite. It makes sense that CAD would grow to include all of these things. But I thought sharing the initial perspective of some one who hasn’t looked at this stuff in about 18 years might be interesting.

Granted I’m not actually familiar with most of this stuff, and none of it from the POV of FreeCAD. If this can deliver 10% of what I’m looking at, I’m in for a treat.

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    9 months ago

    From my perspective the biggest thing wrong with FreeCAD is that it’s a single threaded app in a multicore world. If you load large stuff, the app freezes and one core is working really hard for a while.

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        9 months ago

        That doesn’t have me wait for tens of minutes while one core slogs it’s guts out and the other fifteen sit there idle.

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      9 months ago

      Isn’t like every CAD program single core? People got scammed hard with Xeon in the past. CAD PC salesmen had/have absolutely no idea what they were talking about

      Biggest speedup has been the GPU integration. The single core stuff doesn’t seem to matter much anymore.

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        9 months ago

        Mastercam does pretty well once you force it to use hardware accelleration