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I wouldn't recommend Blender for anything that needs to have accurate dimensions, as it is a pain to get things right, even with the "CAD" addon.
FreeCAD seems great, but the UI and UX are horrendous. It's a steep learning curve.
If you have any coding experience, I recommend giving OpenSCAD a look, like mentioned in another comment. I believe most of the older Prusa printer parts were designed on it.
That's certainly an interesting way to go about it lol. That said, I read through the tutorial and honestly I'm gonna give it a try. The syntax doesn't look too awful and doing it in code seems like it would allow for easy precision and also eliminates having to learn the UI of FreeCAD which I agree is absolutely horrendous.
Thanks.
Also, if you're making raspberry pi enclosures as I think I read in the comments, there is this library that has pre-modeled rpis to use as a reference: https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib
Nice. A lot more than RPis, too.
This is actually for a Banana Pi but it's in the Pi Zero form factor so should be easy to modify.
It's honestly pretty powerful, you can even import libraries from other users. A good example I've found is the board game inserts that user "js500" is uploading on Printables. He has his own library with things like rounded cubes, finger holes and whatnot, then uses that to create inserts for different games. Here's an example: https://www.printables.com/model/1192543-white-castle-with-matcha-insert-organizer-also-fit (Make sure to also download the library file included)