BaitMaster
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If when you were young you fought with teams of ornery old farm mules pulling plows, youll feel right at home.
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FreeCAD 1.0 released
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Although we had workhorses on the farm when I was a boy, I never plowed with them. I did ride them bareback and I did use them to pull the caboose to school.
I found those big horses to be a lot smarter than some of the computer controlled hardware I use today.
BaitMaster
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Mules are intelligent too, like horses. But they are stubborn and strong willed, and want things done exactly their way.
Like freecad.
One of those many "on the shelf" things is to get better at CAD software. I had aspirations of making a CNC plasma cutter and that was the catalyst to get me to download and learn a bit about FreeCAD a few years ago. I got to the point where I could develop a drawing, and, presumably, output it if I had something to output it to. But 2 things that bothered me (Version 0.17?) was that to dimension a drawing for printing seemed cumbersome, awkward. And I could not print to scale. Say you wanted to make a template for something....? I found this to be really strange that that feature was not available. Or I could not figure it out at the time.
I was a very new, inexperienced user, but, for those familiar with FreeCAD and others, are those issues common? Have they been resolved in the new 1.0 version. I did download it about a month ago, but, maybe cause it has been a year since I looked at the old version, or maybe there are lots of changes, I felt like I was starting over.
Fusion does seem to be the gold standard for hobbyist, but for all of the concerns mentioned, I am resistant to jump in. My understanding is that you are allowed 10 active projects? Nine more than I need. But my learning curve is so low, by the time I get half assed at it, I suspect it might be zero freebies.
I was a very new, inexperienced user, but, for those familiar with FreeCAD and others, are those issues common? Have they been resolved in the new 1.0 version. I did download it about a month ago, but, maybe cause it has been a year since I looked at the old version, or maybe there are lots of changes, I felt like I was starting over.
Fusion does seem to be the gold standard for hobbyist, but for all of the concerns mentioned, I am resistant to jump in. My understanding is that you are allowed 10 active projects? Nine more than I need. But my learning curve is so low, by the time I get half assed at it, I suspect it might be zero freebies.
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