Title basically.

One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can’t upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it’s an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).

Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn’t been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced…

  • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve had issues with FreeCAD being less performant and freezing or crashing when trying to make more complex parts.

    Fairly rare though and I’ve been able to work around it

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      13 hours ago

      While the tn issue is better, personally found I a lot better to not use external geometry at all and instead build my references wrt the base plane. At worst I have to change a sketch attachment, that and doing chamfers absolutely last has saved a ton of grief on some recent models. I hand sketch first, how I learned cad in the first place, that workflow seems to mesh well with it.

      Still the odd crash here or there but I’m accepting of it.