Show them all at all times) then you get to see all of the elements in every sketch at once (but you only see the constraints of the
If you turn several of them on at once (the default behaviour is to The same as any single item in the project tree in FreeCAD. I also like that the SolveSpace "shown" checkbox can make many "groups" visible at the same time. This is very powerful and I wish FreeCAD worked this way. Just define construction lines in 3D space and constrain the extrusion to meet your construction lines.Įasy peasy. You can very easily do complicated things to decide the length of an extrusion withoutĭoing any maths in your head. The available options are quite extensive, but not exhaustive, and are wholly unnecessary in SolveSpace. You have to choose between a simple length, or a pad up to an existing face, or a pad up to an existing face with a custom offset,Īnd so on. Have this amazing constraint solver available in 2D for your sketches, but then when you want to turn them 3D, it all disappears and Of a revolution are done using exactly the same constraint solver as the sketch uses! This was a revelation to me. In particular this means that defining things like the length of an extrusion or the angle In FreeCAD you have one view for creating a sketch,Īnd then when you're done with the sketch you close it and you have a separate view for turning the 2D sketch into a 3D feature. The SolveSpace workflow is more cohesive in a way that is hard to give a feel for if you don't actually try it out. So I don't know if the weird colour scheme is a good thing or a bad thing overall. Geometry of the part than you do in FreeCAD. You feel like you're working more closely with the But it also contributes to the general "feel" of the program.
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It makes the software feel much more foreign and confusing The black background colour for the UI in SolveSpace is an unusual choice. Slots in my brain that already exist for Part Design. In SolveSpace is almost exactly the same as Part Design, so I found it very easy to get started, after watchingĪ 9-minute video of operating the user interface. I mostly use the "Part Design" workflow in FreeCAD (distinct from "Part", just to make things easy to understand). For FreeCAD I recommend the latest weekly build AppImage ( not the latest stable on the website, that one is also woefully out of date). Whether you're using FreeCAD or SolveSpace, you should definitely run an up-to-date version. If you're a happy SolveSpace user and you think I got something wrong, please correct me! Most of this post is from the perspective of "what's different in SolveSpace compared to FreeCAD?".
I also think 3 hours is justĮnough time to run into loads of things that I can't do in SolveSpace, but not enough time to discover great new things Pleaseīear that bias in mind while reading. a lot (call it Stockholm Syndrome if you want). Obviously, 5 years of experience in FreeCAD compared to about 3 hours in SolveSpace is not a fair comparison. So this evening I finally gave it a proper try and noted down my observations.
Understand FreeCAD, and they only thought SolveSpace was good because they didn't know how good FreeCAD is.īut it occurred to me that I was doing exactly the same thing to SolveSpace: I assumed it was worse thanįreeCAD mainly because I couldn't be bothered to put in the work to understand it. I assumed that all the SolveSpace users were just not willing to put in the work to It seemed so obviously inferior as not toīe worth looking at. I have briefly looked at SolveSpace before and didn't really get it. Read comments on Hacker News from people who are raving about SolveSpace. I've been a happy FreeCAD user for about 5 years.
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