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The state of FreeCAD after the 1.1 release is absolutely excellent!
EDIT: Just read your full question. Anyway, after your done with this project, I highly suggest the migration. I recently did it and am not looking back. I just exported all my Fusion designs as step files and can open them in FreeCAD, though not wothbthe full parametric history.
Thanks for the tip. Just watched a bunch of 1.1 tutorial videos and it actually seems like it could be a better workflow for my use cases than Fusion, plus it also does BIM.
I'm nearly at the end of my journey to boycott Adobe and Autodesk for good. I dropped 3dsmax for Blender a while back after Autodesk attempted to audit me. They demanded I download an app that would collect detailed information about my computer, so I said go fuck yourself, uninstalled and canceled my paid subs, then downloaded Blender and besides missing V-ray and Forestpack, has been a much better experience.
I'll have to try it again at some point. I found it kinda brutal last time I tried it, and was gonna just try the blender plugin that adds some parametric features next time
If things have improved I guess I'll have to give it another go at some point
It was the same for me, but 1.1 made a huge leap in usability
Thats super exciting to hear, I'm glad you mentioned it ☺️
Holy shit, you aren't kidding, I don't know how I missed news about 1.1, it's a huge improvement.
There's still some limitations that I've run into fyi. It's certainly better than 1.0, but it still has lots of room for improvement
that's what I'm definitely doing after this project, I'm tired of proprietary software and fusion is the last thing I need to cut off