[hommelix]

The wiki page explains that as from Freecad 1.0, the work done by Realthunder in the topological naming problem has been merged into Freecad. Not that everything is solved. Just to mention that the work of Real thunder was not lost.

[groos]

Glad to hear it as I moved away before 1.0 happened. RealThunder had other enhancements as well, if I remember correctly. I wonder if those were taken up as well.

[bombela]

Sadly the fast and smooth renderer wasn't taken. So last I tested, mainline v1.1 is still not able to work with big models. Try loading the full Voron 3D printer step file.

This fast renderer also closes and add hashed faces to cross sections views, instead of showing some buggy view of the inverts faces of the model.

Furthermore, the sketcher since mainline v1 is very laggy. Every click lags because its trying to draw the dimensions while you move them around but it's somehow slow and irritably laggy.

Finally in general, mainline also plenty of weird UI jitter and flicker. As if some code is fighting to resize elements back and forth during use.

Oh and the pie menu also wasn't copied either. On the realthunder fork a double press on "g" brings a menu under the mouse that quickly list the geometry near the cursor sorted by type, highlighting it as you hover on the selection. This is fantastic because of how bad freecad is at guessing what you are trying to select.

But mainline got a new color scheme and torturously slow UI animations that cannot be fully be disabled. This shows where are the priorities in my opinion.

To finish on a note of hope, at least I have noticed more open source projects using freecad rather than proprietary alternatives lately.

[mitthrowaway2]

Realthunder also lets the sketchers use projected geometry as real geometry, rather than only as construction geometry. And automatically creates shapebinders, which is very convenient. I still prefer it, but 1.0 works better with add-on toolboxes like Lattice2.

[MegaDeKay]

The ability to pull in projected geometry as real geometry or construction geometry is in the release candidate for V1.1 that should be released reasonably soon. There's a lot of other cool features in V1.1 as well.

I treat FreeCAD as a rolling release, using the dev version on a decently complex model [0] and it has been a really good experience so far. Lots of useful features and fixees going in all the time.

[0] https://github.com/dekay/vpin-cabinet/

[bombela]

Oh yes, which is so useful. I am still using his now outdated fork. Hoping that at some point mainline gets performant enough for me to switch and learn new workarounds to different bugs.