• Krait
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    The lack of a good cad software (fusion 360), and no, freecad and openscad are not worthy equivalents.

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      This is how to trim a curve on a point in FreeCAD. Honestly hilarious. Tried using it recently, and I couldn’t follow a basic tutorial without it breaking. This is a recent fair review of FreeCAD, and it still needs a lot of work even after its 1.0 release before it is even worth using. I’m considering going back to OpenSCAD for a simple project, and then I will try using build123d in python (CadQuery is a more user-friendly alternative, at least as far as I am told).

      I’m curious how well these CAD kernel projects written in Rust will turn out: Fornjot / Truck

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        Thanks for the detailed explanation, will definitely check those projects out!