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Fusion 360. It's the only thing that makes me boot into windows. I've lazily tried to make do with some 3D CAD on Linux, but no.
FreeCAD feels like it's where Blender was before version 2.8. The core functionality is there but the UI feels almost user hostile.
If freecad could get the same level of support as blender it would be a huge push towards "the year of the Linux desktop"
FreeCAD is "almost" there, but the inconsistent face renaming when editing previous steps, is still a huge PITA.
I don't even mind the UI that much, it takes some getting used to, but unless it crashes, once you realize how the "workbenches" work, it's not much of a problem, and it makes sense when they're each a separate module, like having 30 programs in one, that share some base elements, but otherwise are separate programs running through a single UI.
Agree to disagree.
From what I remember something as common as offsetting lines in a sketch required switching away from the sketch workbench into the draft workbench and exiting the sketch editor altogether.
Normally, for an offset line, I'd use some helper lines and just set an offset along the helper between intersecting points, all straight from the sketch editor. Maybe you mean some other kind of offsetting, but I barely use the draft workbench, I've found it only offers a few tools that are hard to come up with inside the sketch editor itself.
I mean offsetting complex shapes in one go.
Just randomly throwing together an example:
Ironically, an in-Sketcher offset tool has been developed over a year ago, along with like 10 other Sketcher tools... but it's been blocked from merging because they found there is a mistake in the general UI styling, and they switched to fixing that instead.
Oh well, guess FreeCAD's UI is a problem after all. 🤦