I started out with SolveSpace a couple of years ago, and I concur with your assessment.

Posted in 3d Printer hacks Tagged 3d modeling, cad, freecad, solvespace Post navigation And we’ve talked a lot about FreeCAD, too. So, generally, we reach for FreeCAD but it is mostly because of habit. We haven’t used it as much, though, and FreeCAD integrates nicely with OpenSCAD which we use a lot, too. Our choice? We often use FreeCAD although we like how SolveSpace handles certain things.

Being able to see the differences between the two tools might convince you to learn one or the other or maybe even switch. You probably don’t need this particular design, but watching over someone’s shoulder while they do a complex design can be very valuable. There are many tools that can do that, including FreeCAD and SolveSpace, two programs that uses to create a complex compressor blade and it really shows the differences and similarities between the two tools. For example, you can create a vertical line and constrain other lines to be parallel, perpendicular, or form a given angle with that line. Serious modern designs tend to use parametric modeling where you don’t necessarily set dimensions and positions of everything but instead constrain the design by describing the relationship between different elements. When you are ready to design real things, you’ll find simple CAD programs can be pretty limiting.

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