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by avhon1 662 days ago
Just to add, FreeCAD still doesn't ship with a way to do constrained assemblies of parts. You can arrange multiple parts together without any constraints on them, but if you want them constrained together then you have to pick an external workbench (there are 3 choices!) and install it separately.

https://wiki.freecad.org/Assembly

SolveSpace has the capability built-in, but its constraint and geometry solvers are not robust enough for designing full FRC robots. It either gets very slow, or start saying that constraints are unsolvable (even though they are), or starts generating geometry with extra or missing faces.