FreeCAD 3D Software
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So as not to hijack Tom's OnShape thread, I started one for FreeCAD.

Another free 3D CAD program I've been playing around with is FreeCAD. So far, I like it better than Fusion 360.

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Thanks Ed, might give it a try Thumbsup 
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Downloading the source now. I think I tried building it once before but that was on the old machine that was dying. We'll see how it goes.
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Took a couple of days but I finally have a working FreeCAD.  Too late tonite to check it out, tomorrow or the next day will tell.
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How the heck do you use it?


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(03-09-2016, 10:20 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: How the heck do you use it?

These should help. They got me started.

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/relea...manual.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9HwDk...H9g/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuwmvJX...xKQ/videos
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(03-07-2016, 07:08 PM)Vinny Wrote: Downloading the source now.  I think I tried building it once before but that was on the old machine that was dying.  We'll see how it goes.

Vinny,

What OS are you building it for?

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Debian Linux Wheezy. It's the one version they didn't build for. I'm also going to have to check out the links you posted. Last nite I got as far as Sunset did!
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Last night I installed a new second hard drive since the old one was crapping out. I decided to install Linux Mint on it. So far, I like it a lot. Luckily they had a version of FreeCAD for it so I'm up and running with FreeCAD on Linux.

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YAY!!! You'll probably get spoiled and never look at windoze again. BTW, OpenOffice aka LibreOffice aka ... is a really nice office suite fully compatible with the MS suite. Which desktop did you choose, Gnome, KDE, ... ?
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