FreeCAD in the Browser

Re:FreeCAD in the Browser by NavinF on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:49PM (#48867751)

FreeCAD on desktop is much the same in my experience. If LLMs were mainstream a few years ago I would have assumed the UI was 100% AI generated with zero human input besides a oneshot prompt.

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Re:FreeCAD in the Browser by cui on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:00PM (#48867821)

If Solidworks and Onshape were born after the birth of LLMs, they'd probably be glitchy as hell.

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Re:FreeCAD in the Browser by gucci-on-fleek on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:55AM (#48868878)

When was the last time that you used FreeCAD? Even 18 months ago, I would agree with you that it was a buggy mess, but I tried it a few weeks ago and it was super stable. The UI is still a little confusing, but that just comes with the domain, since AutoCAD and Fusion 360 aren't much better.

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Re:FreeCAD in the Browser by jazzyjackson on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:37AM (#48869089)

I couldn’t get the results described by the intro tutorial 3 months ago, in the parts bench drawing a polygon, snapping was broken.

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