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Double_a_92 on Nov 18, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: We are shutting down Ondsel

I think the main sentiment was more about FreeCAD being extremely bad to use, and not against Ondsel's efforts to make it better.

I just tried installing the new RC of FreeCAD, and it's still a horrible horrible unusable mess (despite all the improvements of Ondsel).

Anyone trying is probably better off starting from scratch on the GUI, and only extracting the algorithmic bits from FreeCad.

phoronixrly on Nov 18, 2024 | [–]

FreeCAD is already based on a geometry kernel (OpenCASCADE), and what were Ondsel doing you suppose?

WillAdams on Nov 18, 2024 | [–]

Dune 3D is not too far away from that: https://dune3d.org/

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