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Okay, now airbus do freecad.
Someone do any CAD. I’m pretty surprised at how shitty the free cad options are. I just use it for 3d printing. Fusion360 (free) is the only decent product out there.
FreeCAD isn't terrible, especially since v1, it's rough round the edges at times, but definitely usable.
But compared to Fusion360, it’s archaic—borderline unusable imo.
What I really want to use is Shapr3D, but there’s no way I’m paying $40/m for the pleasure of making a model or two a month.
Plasticity looked promising, and I was willing to drop the parametric in a pinch, but I had trouble with getting the size right because it’s scale-agnostic.
What are you trying to model? It's far from unusable.