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  • There are also still a lot of QoL issues with the GUI and no real attempt to bring in influences and widgets from direct modeling. FreeCAD is pure of heart and pure of thought, but I’m not sure I’m quite there, though I can at least imagine it now

    fyi, there is now ondsel
    based on FreeCAD, their release introduction reads:

    So our thinking was: we should focus on a polished user experience and features that are essential to professional use. Let’s build something we feel good about recommending it to someone working on a deadline. And let’s build a service for vaulting and collaboration.

    Our primary objective is to provide polish and sorely missing features — that’s a large part of the added value. We’ve made big and small changes in the upstream project, but the four vital projects for us have been toponaming, integrated assembly workbench, UX/UI, and collaboration.

    full Article / release notes

    So working exactly on what most consider FreeCADs weaknesses I’d say

    Unfortunately toponaming is still not done for either. That will be a huge leap in usefulness for me.
    (fixes models breaking when their topology changes)


  • Infill has massively diminishing returns. I don’t think 100% is required. Usually it’s much better to increase the number outer layers.
    That said, depending on the cost scaling, the possibly positive effects of extra mass, and how much I want to avoid a second attempt, massive objects can make some sense.

    PLA becomes brittle with moisture (from your hands and/or air). I would recomment PETG / ASA / ABS (ascending order).

    Yes, basically all CAD and slicers (3d-printer software) can mirror. PrusaSlicer for example can mirror and then save to stl again.