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Your own 3D parametric modeler.

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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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We are shutting down Ondsel | Ondsel (ondsel.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was a pleasure using it. I wanted to switch from Fusion to Ondsel and tried to learn it as an alternative.

Did you use Ondsel?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems like just rebranding a free and open source software and try to run a business with it, isn't the right way when you don't make any significant optimizations to said software, except some minor UI tweaks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

To be fair, they also made a number of fixes and improvements in the base code itself and like good Free Software citizens, contributed them back to the project. Those contributions are in the current 1.0RC2 release of FreeCAD. I think they were wanting to try the same play that launched RedHat back in the day. I appreciate their contributions and I'm sorry it didn't work out for them.