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by bruckie 81 days ago
OnShape is pretty approachable, and has lots of good tutorial videos. They offer free accounts for non-commercial use with the caveat that all of your documents must be public.

If you haven't tried FreeCAD recently, it's gotten a lot better in the past couple of years. It seems to have hit escape velocity, so to speak, and is improving rapidly in a way it hadn't for a long time.
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jijijijij 80 days ago
> They offer free accounts for non-commercial use with the caveat that all of your documents must be public.

Major caveat! Also online access required.

And if you decide to upgrade, the next tier is 1,410€ per year.

For that amount of cash, FreeCAD can abuse and torture me quite a bit. Lol.

Also at the rate FreeCAD is developing and improving now, if more people would drop just 1k€/ donations into FreeCAD/OCCT, chances are your pains will ease rather sooner than later.

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Oxodao 80 days ago
I'm not spending weeks to learn a proprietary, online-only software that will lock me out as soon as they need more money. Been burnt before on those kind of stuff
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