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FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

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We are shutting down Ondsel | Ondsel (ondsel.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Harimau@lemmy.world to c/freecad@lemmy.ml

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It was a pleasure using it. I wanted to switch from Fusion to Ondsel and tried to learn it as an alternative.

Did you use Ondsel?

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[–] Mike1576218@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It is really sad to see them leave. They were one of the best open source citizens I know. We only have 1.0 today because of them (and many other contributors).

I was always sceptical about them having a valuable business model. And I thought they'd have bigger pockets. Becaue IMO FC/Ondsel is only now starting to get usable enough for anyone whose time is measured in $ per hour. Paying 1000 $ for a license is not much, if it saves your worker only 1 hour each week. Just yesterday I had troubles importing a step file into FC. Some worked two didn't. Ondsel could import them. That's when I read the sad news...