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by bananicorn 1915 days ago
I just gave this a try, and I would honestly love to have a traditional cad software that is so intuitive and easy to use. (Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me)

I could just get into it, drag, drop rotate and make some stuff - it's actually _fun_ to use!

Does anyone know of a cad program which uses a similar approach? I'd love to be able to build smooth models with such a software...
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app4soft 1915 days ago
> Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me

Please, report any issues to issues tracker.[0]

[0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad

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bananicorn 1915 days ago
The issue already seems to be there[0], but honestly I immediately resorted to using the arrows to move the pieces around and from there on out it didn't disturb me anymore.

I'm really glad you're putting such an emphasis on beginner friendliness though, that's really cool!

[0]https://github.com/leozide/leocad/issues/655

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galfarragem 1914 days ago
Architect here: nothing beats SketchUp on intuitiveness.

> traditional cad software that is so intuitive and easy to use

Autocad is the Emacs for CAD - you can even script it with Lisp. It's not intuitive at all, but once you master it, is unbeatable.

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app4soft 1914 days ago
> Architect here: nothing beats SketchUp on intuitiveness

Try latest SolveSpace.[0]

> Autocad is the Emacs for CAD - you can even script it with Lisp. It's not intuitive at all, but once you master it, is unbeatable.

LeoCAD is CAD for kids in the first place. And this HN thread is mostly about CADs which are kids-friendly — usable just with its GUI elemnts & mouse/keyboard shortcuts (SolveSpace also one of such), without any needs in scripting at all.

[0] https://git.io/SolveSpace3x

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