[jemzipx]

FreeCAD deserves a lot more recognition. It is literally the only serious open source contender to commercial CAD softwares. There has been a lot of recent positive developments including Realthunder’s continuous effort to solve topological naming problem. I use FreeCAD as my daily CAD software to design some fairly complex assemblies and it has become a joy to use. Hope we can get more developers and companies behind it and witness the same revolution that happened with Blender.

[stavros]

That's fantastic to hear, I've been wanting to switch to it for a while, as I hate how closed the commercial CAD programs are, but I've never put in the effort due to its various issues.

Would you say it's as good as OnShape nowadays, in terms of ease of use/stability?

[jemzipx]

Definitely. I’d recommend using FreeCAD Linkstage3 for now as it has a fix for topo naming problem and a variety of other improvements. For tutorial, I highly recommend OficineRobotica youtube channel. His videos are the best educational stuff I know of. With some practice you can learn proper workflow which prevents a lot of problems down the line.

[stavros]

Fantastic, thanks for the tips!

[gaze]

I don’t think it’s anywhere close in terms of usability, but it is very powerful and capable.