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This doesn’t sound like an issue for those who use Fusion frequently, however you may want to find ways to get local files, just to be safe.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seriously give Ondsel a try if you haven't, has a different ui on top of freecad and a few workflow changes/sketch tools that make it less clunky. I use realthunder + modern ui for freecad and while yeah, there's clunk, it's useable and importantly, no limits on your files. Modern UI gives freecad a ribbon bar and some other enhancements that I like, swapping between benches took a bit to get used to, draft at least the hotkeys are kinda sorta intuitive and make the flow a lot nicer.

I switched cold turkey off of SW Maker for that reason, it limits where your files can be opened on that license, plus kept trying to save my files to a cloud storage by default. I've said it before, yeah freecad isn't perfect, has clunk, but it's provided to me free of charge with no limitations on its usage, I'll gladly accept that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's an add-on ModernUI I really like it, configurable as well, mainly use for ribbon bar and dockable panels


from the github, I use small icons with no labels (like the window in the middle), works well for me on an ultrawide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I didn’t know about this. Thank you !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've tried the modern UI plugin, it makes freecad crash every 15min or so on my computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

ModernUI was abandoned afik. FreeCAD Ribbon UI seems to have taken its place.

https://github.com/geolta/FreeCAD-Ribbon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sucks! Seems to work on my oldish laptop, can't recall if I used on my really old one too but they both have 16gb of ram and running an appimage on Debian for those, windows seems to be happy with it. Running the python 3.11 versions as well, idk if that makes a difference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't really have a major impact on the workflow from what I've tried, it's still the shitty workflow of regular freecad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, visually the ModernUI made it similar to what I was used to, I pretty much bounce between part design, sketch and assembly workbenches for everything I do, been a bit but I think ondsel swaps automatically to sketch from part workbench and the dimension tool is way nicer, general freecad doesn't really have that smart dim tool, but the keyboard shortcuts make it better.

Workflow wise, I found it pretty much exactly the same as I used SW and other parametric cad packages, make your sketches, extrude your base and then build sketches for other features. Toponaming fix seems to make external geometry references a bit more reliable, have a few cleanups if I change way back in the tree, not all sunshine and rainbows though, definitely had some frustrations and clunk. What's sold me honestly is I dove in with a largish project (more than I expected tbh, I'll post it when it's more mature) and it's so far totally met my needs.