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I _really_ wanted FreeCAD to work for me.

I just don't trust Fusion360 not letting me have my files on my own hard disk.

I'm too much of a beginner to drop thousands on the higher end professional software.

So FreeCAD sounded perfect.

But three main problems made me give up: 1) The "topological naming problem" / random crashing. Couldn't ask a team to put up with that. 2) I found there wasn't a clear path to navigate the choice between the competing versions / forks / assembly things, and learn CAD at the same time. (Don't know enough to know what I'm comparing) 3) The interface just isn't as easy to use or learn. There isn't a long and clear set of tutorials like there is for Fusion360 [1]

So I've decided to settle for learning CAD first via Fusion360 for now, in hope that by the time I've got a good understanding of it, the various FreeCAD tribes will have merged into one solution, or that the main fork has improved enough that someone makes great tutorials for it.

[1] Here's is a great, professional tutorial series for Fusion360 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvrHuaHhqHI (Somehow it's almost too-professional unofficial-official. Does anyone know if this is actually Autodesk?)