Yeah, It's quite the learning curve (and typical terrible open-source UX barrier).
I come from using quite a bit of Siemens NX, back in my Industrial Design days (10y ago).
Revit or Fusion360 have way better UX, but come with insane price cards + compromises on sovereignty. So FreeCAD it is!
I saw the disparity between the free and paid tools and instead of choosing the free option, I unethically chose the other free option 🏴☠️
I looked for :AirQuoteLeft: free :AirQuoteRight: options too, but there's no way I'm running windows just for that.
So far, besides some weird bugs, I quite like FreeCAD.
Yeah, I'll give it another shot next time I need to print something 🤞
I also came from SolidWorks, which I loved, and had to forcibly use windows in my home machine because of it.
When my company switched to Inventor, which I hate, I thought that I shoud also force myself to learn FreeCAD.
In fact, it is not to learn, just to get used to new ways of doing the same thing.
Now I only use FreeCAD.
To be fair, it's not a hassle free experience, I advise to get use to save it step by step when designing large projects, and have good backups from time to time.
At the moment I'm working on mods for my new 3d printer, and doing everything in FreeCAD.
BTW, I use the realthunder fork, which made things a lot easier, specially when you need to change something up in the features tree... If you are familiar with FreeCAD, you will learn that it suffers from a design challenge due to "topological naming", which was not solved, but improved in realthunder fork.
