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?

  • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I have a licensed seat of Solidworks on my work computer; that’s where I learned to solid model. I also have an older pirated copy on my home computer but it requires Windows.

    If I had to choose something free I would probably choose Onshape because it is very similar to Solidworks (it was created with help from one of the founders of Solidworks). However it sucks that all of your models are public.

    Otherwise, the only viable option in my eyes would be Fusion 360.

    I haven’t tried it, but I know there is a plugin for Blender that allows you to do parametric modelling but I’m sure the options are pretty limited.