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Re:FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released by bambax on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:49AM (#16792920)
I have used FreeCAD 0.16 a lot to design and then manufacture simple objects (extruded svg shapes, essentially), and it has worked fine.

It's the only program that I know of, capable of importing OpenSCAD files.

The interface is a little awkward and the icons quite obscure, but other than that it's really good!

Re:FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released by kwk1 on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:55AM (#16792959)
> The interface is a little awkward and the icons quite obscure, but other than that it's really good!

One of the many improvements in this version was a complete overhaul of all the workbenches' icons to be aligned to the Tango Desktop Project [1], thanks to Alexander Gryson [2]. I think it helped a lot with the visual consistency, so big kudos to him.

1. http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project

2. https://agryson.net/