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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?

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[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I absolutely love freecad. There are dozens of us that actually really like it

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I was learning with freecad.

Tried to defeature the screw holes on Steam Controller model and it crashed the application :/

I'm still learning so I have no idea how to do that manually :<