![]() 12/04/2017 at 12:14 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
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^ This is great.
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Agreed. Much better than Tinkercad.
![]() 12/04/2017 at 12:24 |
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Interesting. I will have to give this a try and see how it compares to SolidBreaks.
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It’s the closest thing to SolidWorks I’ve found. So nice and easy to use. Plus:
- It’s free for personal use
- You get file formats that you can use, as opposed to SW which not only restricts you to SW files, but to SW files from YOUR SPECIFIC YEAR of SW.
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No idea what SolidBreaks is like, but I’ve done a little bit of SolidWorks. It’s the closest thing to SolidWorks I’ve found, almost like an online clone. Unlike SW though:
- It’s free for personal use
- You get file formats that you can use, as opposed to SW which not only restricts you to SW files, but to SW files from YOUR SPECIFIC YEAR of SW.
- You get your stuff anywhere and it’s got a nice app that is actually usable.
![]() 12/04/2017 at 12:31 |
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looks like it is...
shaping up
![]() 12/04/2017 at 12:32 |
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You’re not wrong
![]() 12/04/2017 at 12:33 |
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SolidBreaks is my Formula Hybrid team’s nickname for Solidworks. 10 years of bad habits with regards to file management and being 95% self-taught means that we crash it constantly. It’s extremely rare for us to open one of our assemblies and not see some kind of file error.
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similarly, I like FreeCAD as sort of a “CATIA-lite” in how it works. plus, you know, free.
![]() 12/04/2017 at 12:48 |
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Oh... there’s another SolidSomething program out there iirc, thought you were referring to that.
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Just looked it up, it’s SolidEdge I was thinking of. No idea what that’s like though.
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I never managed to get FreeCAD to work for me. Couldn’t figure it out.
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it was buggy as shit on Windows for a while (I run it on Linux) but it works fine now.
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It’s only for 2D, but LibreCAD I find fairly decent.
It has issues with file formats but if you just want to make printable drawings it’s fine.
![]() 12/04/2017 at 13:10 |
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I found DraftSight to be more to my liking for 2D, but that’s because I cut my teeth on AutoCAD R14 and it’s almost an exact workalike.