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I knowww I know save your forks and torches but I'm in the middle of a fully 3D printed homelab project and I can't afford to start learning FreeCad just yet.

Everytime I even begin to think about using windows on my second laptop makes me kick and scream, its genuinely vomit inducing and its keeping me from finishing my project.

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[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

I've been using it through wine for two years now, using this repo.

It works surprisingly well, sometimes there's some flickering, but not enough to prevent me from working. It gets a bit slow to react on big assemblies, though that might also be the case on windows. logging in is a pain, luckily that's only every 1-2 months (you need to log in on the homepage, copy the login id and run a cli command with the id, within the 30 seconds before the id expires. Usually takes me 2-3 tries because i forget it after 2 months). it not seeing linux drives and having to copy files from/to wine's drive_c is a bit annoying.

but overall it's good enough, haven't booted the windows partition in those two years and I'm willing to deal with this to be windows free. But if i had to use it professionally as a daily driver, that would probably be different.

I did have to reinstall it twice in the two year period, though.

[–] OppressedBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago

may I ask what distro ur using? I tried this and I couldn't get it to run, spent hours troubleshooting

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That repo seems to have just been archived though. That would worry me if I were starting to use it now.

But I'm using it on windows, on my game machine.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Oh you're right, it's moved to codeberg. I've updated my original post. Lots of projects moving off of github recently, because Microsoft. In my experience crinklyfly is very active in maintaining the repo, so hopefully this will continue on codeberg.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 hours ago

Its not FOSS but it works great on Linux in the browser... OnShape

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

It was the same for me, but 1.1 made a huge leap in usability

[–] OppressedBread@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 hours ago

You can run it through Winboat or via a standard VM, but like Adobe they hate you running it via Wine, and will try to block you from doing so.

So your best bet will be VM+GPU passthrough.

[–] anguo@piefed.ca 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If you happen to have an education account, you can stream it through your browser.

[–] OppressedBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 45 minutes ago

didnt know that, I'll try this