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The holiday season has brought us major releases of three lighthouse projects of the Free Software world:
Krita has reached version 5.0 on the 23rd: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/
Blender already got to version 3.0 on the 3rd: https://www.blender.org/press/blender-3-0-a-new-era-for-content-creation/
and KiCAD hit 6.0 on the 25th: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/
The upgrades are significant, and these three applications already rule their domains at the entry level. How much further will they go?
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A Good Month for Free Software with Three Major Releases
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Rich on Wednesday December 29 2021, @09:05PM (1 child)
I actually checked their site to see whether they also have a new release to report. I'd say that FreeCAD is not at the point of perfection yet that the mentioned apps have reached with the latest versions. I have toyed with it, but haven't really worked with it yet. It appears to me that they caught traction at a point from which it can't stall anymore. Like Blender a few years ago. It probably can do everything needed for CAD/CAM tasks that are not too complicated, with a few bumps in the road. Give them some time, and they will almost surely end up as what I called "lighthouse project".
(Score: 3, Informative) by crafoo on Wednesday December 29 2021, @11:20PM
I agree, FreeCAD is pretty good but it has some missing critical features still, IMO. Version 0.19, so I think even the dev team agrees with that take. It's really good though. Parametric modelling from sketches, CSG, STEP/IGES handled well, decent UI, and it seems really stable.