FreeCAD Day 2023: Report and Continued Discussion

• FreeCAD

  42 709 0.0 C++

  Link branch FreeCAD (by realthunder)

It's been (mostly) solved in this dev branch: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases

The team is working on a merge, but it's a big merge.

• solvespace

  69 3,005 7.0 C++

  Parametric 2d/3d CAD

  

N.B. I'm a mod of r/SolveSpace community on Reddit.[0]

> There is a reason people love Solvespace over FreeCAD even though it is incredibly limited in comparison.

As a SolveSpace user for nearly a decade, who started to learn FreeCAD last month, I may say that both apps has own pros'n'cons: SolveSpace has simpler UI (but lack of features for experts), while FreeCAD has a lot of features (but UI to complex for "normal" users).

About "limited in comparison", he is may latest quick comparison of both apps:[1]

SolveSpace is a good "Stage 1" tool for sketching ideas, while FreeCAD is more like "Stage 2" tool for converting sketch into real product. SolveSpace exported DXF (2D & 3D wireframe) & STL/OBJ (mesh) could be used as a base for FreeCAD and other apps (Blender, LibreCAD).[2]

While SolveSpace is not a competitor to FreeCAD, it still could be used for design wide range of complex things for 3D printing or shop drawings, including assemblies.[3,4,5,6]

The main problem of SolveSpace, is that it still has broken STEP export, as a result exported solid surfaces are non-manifold and after import into FreeCAD it is almost unusable (it may require a lot of work with "Shape builder" and "Surface" Workbench to revert it back to solid body).[7]

There are also many NURBS & mesh issues in SolveSpace worse to fix.[8]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/solvespace

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109812747058078617

[2] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109813465975914195

[3] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109740222184364152

[4] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/107098074104816439

[5] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109804453127760634

[6] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1479875838451585026

[7] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/206

[8] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1281

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• FreeCAD

  234 17,463 10.0 C++

  This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.

  

> It's been (mostly) solved in this dev branch

To be clear, it is not a dev branch, but RealThunder's Link branch (FreeCADLink is a fork of FreeCAD).

For topology naming, here is dev branch[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/tree/development/toponami...

[1] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/tag/topo-...

• FreeCAD-Bundle

  22 207 7.8 Python

  Stand-alone repo to Build and Deploy installable FreeCAD images

  

> It's been (mostly) solved in this dev branch

To be clear, it is not a dev branch, but RealThunder's Link branch (FreeCADLink is a fork of FreeCAD).

For topology naming, here is dev branch[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/tree/development/toponami...

[1] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/tag/topo-...

• cadquery

  30 2,799 8.3 Python

  A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT

  

>Python for CAD

You might be interested in CadQuery:

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

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