Software >

https://www.freecadweb.org/

A CAD program.

I couldn't figure it out.

• https://forum.freecadweb.org/
• https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Getting_started ^[ 1 ] was https://freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_started

• https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Tutorials

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• 2020-10-16 - 0.18.4.980bf90 on Windows 10

2020-10-16 - 0.18.4.980bf90 ∞

The fuck.. I can't even comprehend this; FAIL.

2015-05-02 - 0.15.4671 ∞

FreeCAD-0.15.4671_x86_setup on Windows 8.1, updated recently.

• LGPL, nice.

• 0.15, that's disheartening. Well maybe it'll be complete enough.

Starting with https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Getting_started ^[ 2 ] was https://freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_started and fiddling.

• "Getting started" does not cover what to do about that big confusing opening dialog.
• A browser is built in.. uh, neat?
• I guess I have to exit and re-start the application to get that opening dialog again.
• I'm not sure what to select, but I'm trying with "Part Design".
• For some reason, it doesn't begin with "Create sketch" or some such. I'm expecting a viewport.
• Why would I want some wacky plane to sketch on? Is that for crazy people?
• I figured out how to make a rectangle, but how do I snap to grid?
• Middle-click, hold, then left-click to rotate view. Uh, wut. Now how do I return it to sanity?
• Their documentation specifically keeps stuff for a shitty older version.

• Oh, the start page is a tab at the bottom.

  • Tabs should be at the top.

• I can't figure out how to get my grid back. Starting a new project doesn't work.

  • Oh, it's Part Design > Create sketch
• When creating a line, I had no clue how to snap to grid. But I see afterwards that it automatically has constraints and a snap to grid feature on the left.

• When resizing my line, the grid disappeared. Unselecting and re-selecting the Show grid on the left did not solve this. Is this a bug?

  • Making a new line attached to my first line revealed the grid again. I don't understand what's going on..

• Isn't there a simple way to make a box?

  • Oh, found it.
• How do I turn my manual box into a cube?
• How do I move a square? It only resizes.

• Oh gods, control-y to re-do.

Well at this point it fails. I'll check out the tutorials.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Tutorials

I guess what I want is https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Basic_modeling_tutorial

• "Click on the the box button".. but where is it?

  • Part > Primitives > Cube is greyed out.

• "This document is in editing mode and thus cannot be closed for the moment." What the fuck?

  • Oh, pressing escape exited whatever the fuck mode I was in.
• New stuff > on the left under "Create Geometry", click "Cube"

• I have no grid, and I see a square not a cube. I can't rotate my view.

Ok, I'm going to stop here.

FAIL - unfinished, complicated.

• Curious, I uninstalled it.. which worked, except I still had the program open. I wonder what it left hanging around.