Hello
I have a friend - a former boilermaker now retired - who became interested in manipulation
computer of sheet metal objects, parts and the cnc manufacturing of these objects, and to do this he used the Freecad software, he showed me some procedures, it seems to me that this software is complete for what I saw, anyone used this log?
Hello Alfoncpasmamob,
I didn't know " FreeCad ", thanks for the information.
Here's what I found on the web, it looks pretty good, to see=>https://www.freecad.org/index.php?lang=fr
I'm going to try it on this step.
@+.
AR.
Freecad is still a free software and therefore more limited than many pro software, but it is nevertheless rather complete.
On the other hand, for small projects, it is still sufficient.
I tested it some time ago, it's not as easy as SW and that's why I use it so little.
Having a SW license at my disposal I prefer to use the software that I know by heart, even if it would be sufficient by most or even all of them.
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Of course it's not as complete as SW or other equivalents, but it's free and still has a lot of features, modules, ...
Thank you for your answers
PS: I installed it and will use it to compare for example the accuracy on an unfolded
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I find it quite unintuitive as well.
But this remains my opinion probably biased by the fact of drawing on SW for 20 years!
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Yes, I agree with you too, we get into habits..., but I'll still
used, such as GGcam, which a friend developed and sold
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Yes, but also probably much more stable and less buggy, like many free or opensource software compared to pro and overpriced software... Paradoxically...
The difference between software made out of passion and software made out of greed, I guess.
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I think that bugs are part of all software, pro or not, with maybe a little more seriousness for the pros..., as for greed it depends on the type of personality who designs it, for what purpose if I dare say, I take the example of GGcam, today impossible to find, but sold in a few hundred, a large Swiss biology company wanted to buy the source code for a pittance without realizing the work that it represents for a single person, which is the case, by buying some algos anyway, see attachment
ggcam_aide.pdf (12.2 MB)
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Free software crashes too. I've been using Ubuntu for 15 years and I can tell you that it crashes that updates come out with new bugs...
Don't forget that the data handled by SW is huge and like any software that handles large files you are subject to certain limits and more recurrent crashes...
Which doesn't exclude a certain frustration when you pay a very high price for a successful software.
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Even so, with the same number of bugs, where it's understandable coming from a poor guy all alone who develops in his free time, it's unacceptable coming from a whole team paid for it!
There is also the quality of correction; The enthusiast will make updates to satisfy his users and keep a good image, while the large group doesn't care about releasing a hotfix only every 10 years since the customer has already paid and it is too complicated for him to migrate his tons of big projects to other solutions and he therefore stays anyway.
The frequency of patches contributes to less persistence of bugs, so we can guess which branch is the least problematic.
More seriously buggy, yes 
I wasn't specifically targeting SW, but the difference is that experimental or unstable options are clearly indicated as such in the free world, while in the professional world they are sold as novelties or added value, while they are neither tested nor functional and therefore unusable.
" Correct before adding " should be a mantra in large groups.
PS: I love Solidworks and that's why I love it. The problem is that Solidworks really hates us...
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yes agree with you, I also like Solidworks, but I use others too, it all depends on what I have to do
Thank you for your answers
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??? what is the question?
The diagnosis is that I love using it because I find that SW has exceptional potential, but marred by all his problems that could be easily corrected, so I want him to be perfect, for his own good and for ours. His prognosis is life-threatening, but sometimes it is as if Dassault decided to help him die. And so do we.
what do you mean!!, Dassault would kill SW???, replaced by what log?, Catia if it belongs to Dassault, I don't know
As long as it is profitable, no, I don't think so, but it would like to do it that it would not do much better.
PS: you shouldn't always take my words literally, I'm being a little ironic 
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welcome to the club of irony and self-mockery!!