Wonder myself if there any Linux available and\or open-source CAD that can be analogue to Fusion 360? Or maybe anyone had attempt to make similar one to Fusion 360?

FreeCAD seems to be very unfriendly for me as daily user to get jump into 3D design world. Fusion 360 on the opposite - very easy to manage to intuitively and learn fastly

Thanks

P.S. Yes, beside Blender maybe?

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[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Personally, I use FreeCAD. I kinda like the unintuitivness a bit. You have to watch a few tutorials and read the wiki or manual, and getting into the whole workbench stuff and what can be used where thing. But in the end you are less likely to mess up so badly as two of my classmates on a 3D printing related subject once did. They extruded literal side planes only and used poorly made sketch with no calibration or constraints whatsoever. They also used wrong tab in Fusion for that, so they wasted like 4 hours, because the software had no reason to warn them and they had no reason to look for answers. In FreeCAD, they wouldn't even get past creation of the sketch. I didn't when I tried it out for the first time. : )

Also, I find some UI elements in FreeCAD to be better than in Fusion. The only way that I could find to have some variables was to open a dialog window that I can't just deselect and then come back when needed. In FreeCAD I can either use Spreadsheet or VarSet.

And the best thing was performance. My laptop was really struggling to run Fusion even in a window that was barely 720p. FreeCAD has no issue runnin on 4k external screen even though I only have integrated Intel GPU.

For me personally, FreeCAD is the winner. But feel free to use whatever you like. There's even a project that aims to run Fusion on Linux. You can check that if you prefer that. Although a friend of mine had some trouble getting it to work 100%.