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Is FreeCAD 1.0 finally ready?

Interesting: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/arch/news_and_events/events_ay2425_guest_lecture_koh_aik_siong-_191124/
It is confusing because Aik-Siong Koh has his own CAD system 'freeCAD' not 'FreeCAD' but this talk did refer to FreeCAD!
Anyway, his 3D solvers were the basis for the late Alibre Motion and seem to be incorporated into the Assembly Workbench of FreeCAD
 
@NateLiquidGravity I'm testing revid.ai add-comments-to-video and it's hilariously bad at least the videos I tried so far. It appear to not know anything about the apps in the video so it makes up crazy words and explanations. The default style has an early Youtube or 2000's infomercial vibe that's so funny to hear on top of my videos.
 
@NateLiquidGravity I'm testing revid.ai add-comments-to-video and it's hilariously bad at least the videos I tried so far. It appear to not know anything about the apps in the video so it makes up crazy words and explanations. The default style has an early Youtube or 2000's infomercial vibe that's so funny to hear on top of my videos.

It is understanding what I'm doing in the videos but then is seems to switch its context and make up stuff randomly in between actions like us getting distracted mid sentence.
 
Interesting: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/arch/news_and_events/events_ay2425_guest_lecture_koh_aik_siong-_191124/
It is confusing because Aik-Siong Koh has his own CAD system 'freeCAD' not 'FreeCAD' but this talk did refer to FreeCAD!
Anyway, his 3D solvers were the basis for the late Alibre Motion and seem to be incorporated into the Assembly Workbench of FreeCAD
Thanks for sharing this. Are you saying the current assembly workbench C++ core was Alibre Motion or Ondsel's version was based on Alibre Motion which has been incorporated into v1? I still use Ondsel repos to understand FreeCAD assembly and simulation code.


I wanted to integrate the assembly workbench originally for STEP parts, assemblies and constraint mapping tools, now I'm considering more simulation stuff. V1.1 added CreateSimulation which simplifies simulation setup important for this addon. My early work was using Assembly3 and now I wonder where they overlap. It should be straightforward to use both if they both reference the same built-in objects. Simulation and assembly features seem to have a better integration in v1. There are 10 assembly workbenches so the built-in solution is very much appreciated.

 
Are you saying the current assembly workbench C++ core was Alibre Motion or Ondsel's version was based on Alibre Motion which has been incorporated into v1?
I understand, a few AI searches later. This is great news, an important move for FreeCAD as a whole having Aik-Siong Koh leading a workbench. I'm surprised this was not publicized more.

 
This is an old thread same topic.

Long list of great interoperation potential:

 
My workflow was MoI3D (came with my license) for surfacing features and moving to and from Rhino and Alibre. Now FreeCAD is replacing MOI3D for me. Separately building an addon for FreeCAD integration is even better.
 
Freecad 1.1 comes with very powerful improvements. Especially in sketcher. I'm impressed.
I hope that Alibre can follow some of the improvements made in sketch environment, such as multi-contour sketches, and parametric offset.
 
Freecad 1.1 comes with very powerful improvements. Especially in sketcher. I'm impressed.
I hope that Alibre can follow some of the improvements made in sketch environment, such as multi-contour sketches, and parametric offset.
Well, I bought the book FreeCAD Beginner's Handbook, which was tagged with "Version 1.1" on the cover, and the first couple of chapters covered general concepts and were quite good, then I got to the unnumbered third chapter, "Quickstarting FreeCAD with your first 3D CAD Model" on pg. 54 and under Technical Requirements it stated, "...need to have FreeCAD 1.0 or higher..." and the screengrabs were all dark indiscernible things from v1.0, and for the most part the instructions and the terminology did not match 1.1 and I banged against it until pg. 71 where I found it necessary to markedly alter a dimension to arrive at:

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I then tried to use the wiki, but it is pretty pervasively tagged with:

>This page has to be updated for FreeCAD version 1.1.

and decided to try Dune 3D again, where my efforts at feedback on the instructions seem to have gotten me to:

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but I ran out of steam late last night, so I am going to try Alibre v29 this morning once like the classic song, "I'm on my second cup of coffee..." which I will report on in a separate thread....
 
I found Alibre to be FAR more user friendly than Freecad.

Jim
I agree. The Alibre method of creating parts and assemblies and even sheet metal is done in a way that works with my brain. The other CAD systems just don't click for me. I've recommended (and they've purchased) Alibre to others who also feel they just can't figure out CAD. Some have bought and love it.

However, the EZ_CAM now supported is crap. Expensive and makes no sense to me in the same way as so many CAD products. I'd rather move to a different CAD system than use that.

Worst decision ever made by Alibre not to ensure that AlibreCAM (AKA VisualCAM) was dropped. I spent thousands over the years for support on both and have the 4th axis for CAM to be dumped so quickly by both companies was just plain wrong.

Because of that I no longer upgrade either software nor recommend it. I believe the future will be FreeCAD. It may just take a few years.
 
I believe the future will be FreeCAD. It may just take a few years.

I believe that too. I haven't done anything serious with Freecad, other than testing some new features very quickly using v1.1

I'm truly impressed with the performance of the sketcher. I think that even the sketcher alone is a great piece of software, free to use for anyone. I particularly liked how snappy it is, and the fact that it is listing all constraints and dimensions as a list, available for quick select/filtering etc. As said, I haven't really used it long enough to make any kind of statement, but I'm just genuinely impressed with it.

I always had the portable version available in my local, but had not used it for anything particular. But this new version seems quite nice to me.
 
I believe that too. I haven't done anything serious with Freecad, other than testing some new features very quickly using v1.1

I'm truly impressed with the performance of the sketcher. I think that even the sketcher alone is a great piece of software, free to use for anyone. I particularly liked how snappy it is, and the fact that it is listing all constraints and dimensions as a list, available for quick select/filtering etc. As said, I haven't really used it long enough to make any kind of statement, but I'm just genuinely impressed with it.

I always had the portable version available in my local, but had not used it for anything particular. But this new version seems quite nice to me.
Free as FreeCAD is I'm staying with Alibre25 except where I may have to read an Alibre28 file from a friend who bought on my suggestion.
 
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