Ask HN: How does modern FreeCAD compare with Solidworks?

Its been a while since I have touched Freecad, and would like to go open source for my Cad projects, but the last time I used it it was severely lacking in features compared to Solidworks.

The main thing Im looking for is parametric modeling. The use case is basically sketches with constraints -> parts -> assembly with constraints -> drawings that show driven dimentions.

I have the time to learn it, but I don't want to be writing custom python scripts to do the above.


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Created 1y | May 21, 2024, 7:30:07 PM


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