Yeah that must be it.

I moved from Creo to FreeCAD. For a free software, FreeCAD is insanely good. But it’s clear that it is an enthusiast project with focus on functionality rather than UX and UI, allthough they are starting to improve on that too. It’s also clear that all industry grade software providers must headscout some of the smartest and most talented mathematicians and software engineers, which open source can simply not afford.

I took for granted how performant and flexible Creo is with things like chamfers and patterns. FreeCAD struggles in that regard hard, to the point where those steps have to be the last things in your workflow, otherwise the entire model lags out or even crashes.

Also, compared to FreeCAD, the actual constriction feature management seems like magic in Creo, it keeps way better track of the naming and numbering of references and minor changes to earlier elements transfer seamlessly to all newer ones. Meanwhile in FreeCAD adding even a single borehole into a surface retroactively (which shouldn’t influence anything else) completely breaks the model and all surfaces need to be reassigned by hand to all upstream elements.

Threads are another issue. I know cosmetic threads are super easy to do in Fusion, and are especially important for 3D printing. The most effective way to get cosmetic threads in FreeCAD is to use a plugin that gives you parametric rods, nuts and cutting tools and you just use a boolean operation to basically cut a thread into geometry. It works perfectly, but is simply really weird and unusual.

In general FreeCAD can do anything an industry standard CAD Programm can do, it will only take you 10 times longer and is 5 times more complicated. Sometimes the same operation will work on one edge, but not it’s exact copy. Sometimes a feature works on the selection, sometimes you get a seperate selection window for the feature. It’s clear that a lot of implementation happens without proper communication inside the FreeCAD team and therefore lacks in consistency.

But it seems that this year is going to be the year of FreeCAD as they significantly ramped up development and there are almost monthly improvements. They also make effort to unify features and improve consistency across board.

Your mentality needs to be that FreeCAD models are clunky and fragile and you essentially have to already know exactly what you want to design before even starting. It’s not a great tool for creative technical experimentation, for now at least.

Is it? I though OpenCAD predates commercial LLMs by a few decades. Have they switched their development philosophy?

Edit: I mixed up OpenCAD and OpenSCAD.

If you would’ve asked me 4 months ago I’d say the same. I come from industry standard software, so FreeCAD was barely usable if you have gotten used to some of the higher grade usability featuers. Skip a few months forward and FreeCAD development has ramped up as if it’s the cure to cancer. The features (especially usability ones) implemented in the last half a year brings it somewhat on par with what a trained engineer would expect.
For example last week they implemented automatically including reference geometry inside sketches, before you had to use a separate step to include them through a projection or intersection with the sketch plane. That is huge. I think in a few years FreeCAD will essentially be a feature complete industry standard CAD program.

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Ford 1.0L 3 cylinder Ecoboost

Literally any White Stripes concert.

How does it compare to FreeCAD?

First, because a nation with a nuclear arsenal ia not going to be allowed to collapse.

Second, don’t think the US as a country, think of it as a corporation, because that is essentially what it is. Corporations don’t collapse, they get bought up by the highest bidder, their assets liquidated, their workers let go without compensation.

OK, lets not pretend that the “goddesses” weren’t little deviant degenerates themselves.

Bare minimum to enjoy a beer around a campfire: ACDC, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, White Stripes, Dire Straits, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Kenny Loggings, Gorillaz, Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, Bon Jovi, R.E.M, Bonnie Tyler, Eminem, 50, System of a Down, Rage against the Machine, Rob Zombie, Nirvana, Papa Roach, Tenacious D, Dorothy, Floggin Molly, The Subways, Bush, Disturbed, Wolfmother, Guns and Roses, Scorpions, ZZ Top, Armand van Helden, Die Antwoord, Billy Idol, Fleetwood Mac, Ram Jam, Eagels of Death Metal, deadmau5, Foreigner, Daniel Norgen, The Weekend, Cari Cari, Shakira, Cher, Gaga, Rihanna, Michael, Prince

Just a reminder for everyone reading the comments here. You’re probably imagining everyone way more attractive than they actually were.

OP was not allowed to teach at the school again.

I know it isn’t the law but I feel like the burden of proof that somebody has actually read and understood the terms and conditions and was of sound mind when accepting it, should be on the company. Who knows, maybe I was just about to read the full thing and went to get myself a cup of coffee, while I was gone my cat stepped on the keyboard and pressed accept. And if the company can’t prove beyond any reasonable doubt that I did in fact read, understood and accepted it, then the Terms and Conditions are effectively nulled.

The more important question is, what’s her secret?

She’s just built different and has no back pain, or she’s such a badass that she just tanks the damage?

I think we need that one guy from that Anne Hathaway interview to ask her about that.

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I’m 80% sure OP is botting. They post like 30 posts a day. Or they simply have no life outside of Lemmy.

Edit: Typo

I’m finishing my masters right now. With fairly bad grades that is, because I really don’t care about putting in any effort anymore. Which probably means that just like with my equally shit bachelors degree I won’t be able to get a proper engineering position. The thing is that if you apply even to entry level positions, companies usually have more than enough candidates that don’t took 10 years to finish college with barely passing grades. And even on the off chance that a company is desperate enough to hire you, it’s usually a really bad one. I’m currently working as a student. Which pays very good by the hour, but is limited in the amount of hours you can work. So yeah while I get a decent hourly wage, it’s a lot less money monthly than even the worst paying trade jobs. And I’m prohibited by law to take on more hours or a second job while enrolled college (or more precisely the employer is not allowed to give me more hours). I also earn a little money on the side but all together is just barely enough to cover the bills. So yeah, don’t be like me and push yourself into a dead end where you’re too overqualified for unskilled labor, too inexperienced for skilled labor and too financially unstable to start over.

On the bright side, on my regular dentist checkups I’m always being told that I have pretty much perfect tooth health. Makes you wonder how much brushing really helps and how much is just genetics.