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Your own 3D parametric modeler.
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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I have read through that before, though I think the problem is more fundamelntal than what we as a community can do. For most tasks listed, it is necessary to know freecad pretty well, but if I can not even learn it easily, how am I supposed to work on the code, help with bugs or documentation?
I just don't have the time to have a new project and learning freecad or even diving in on development feels like that.
It's not like I could invest 2h into learning a slightly different workflow, which I have already.
Not sure, but maybe write documentation or tutorials for the workflows you describe? I tried to learn CAD a few times, but always gave up :')
To be honest I don't really understand the differences between freecad and the other cads other than the ui and the topological issue.
I am absolutely not an expert, but I learned freecad by watching youtube tutorials, if I wanted to learn something like fusion360 I would do the same thing though speaking with friends of mine that use fusion their workflow is basically the same, the only difference is where to click to accomplish the same stuff.
Also, to be honest I am more of a cadquery/build123d than a freecad type, but still I am not quite sure how to really improve the situation.
Maybe someone could write a plugin to change the ui? Like https://wiki.freecad.org/ModernUI_Workbench. Or someone could make an interactive course for freecad. Like https://wiki.freecad.org/MOOC_Workbench but in english.