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I work in 3d modeling for a living and I have tried freecad so many times I have lost count. I am glad they work to provide a product for the people that find it useful, but I personally find it completely unintuitive. It just takes too many steps to do things that are a single action in ever other package. I want to like it, and I give it another shot a couple times a year, but I just can't get in sync with whatever the intended workflow was meant to be.

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I found actual parametric modeling to be fairly straightfoward once you get used to all the commands, but things like Assembly which should be an integral part of CAD are far behind.

In solidworks, its super easy to create an assembly, import your parts, set the constraints, see how things move, and measure distances.

In Freecad, you have to use external workbenches, and it seems like there are 5 that do the above to a certain extent but not fully, and with many more steps.

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