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Can't even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I'm switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They have been around for a year and are already in the habit of missing deadlines and setting unrealistic timelines that lead to a bad first impression on the market.

https://ondsel.com/blog/the-road-to-freecad-1-0-is-shorter-than-you-think/

I said it back when this came out, but they assured me that they were "well on track" even their to-do list was 2x as long as their in progress and completed combined lol.

I think it will still be a long time before things are upstreamed and ready to go. I am cautiously optimistic, but development of freecad has always been outpaced by a snail.