Just want to thank everyone that engaged with my post today everyone was so chill and inspiring. I want to encourage us all in this community and all over Lemmy to continue to be kind and helpful. I had so many bad experiences on Reddit with hate keepers and know it alls and I’m glad we got this opportunity to be something better.

Ps: what cad software did you start on and what do you use now? Any tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated!

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    For learning or use. Fusion 360 still offers a free version for home use. There are great tutorials on YouTube or buy a $30/month Udemy account and get access to tons of courses and everything else in their library and cancel when you’re done learning.

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          Last time I checked it almost worked in Wine… No issues with the actual CAD stuff, but IIRC the window for managing projects was broken so once I had reached the limits of the free version I couldn’t close any open projects.

          I use FreeCAD primarily. It’s powerful but the UI is a bit clunky and occasionally you have to spend a lot of time on something that feels like it ought to be a simple operation. Perhaps I ought to try OpenSCAD too

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          I used to run Fusion 360 in Chrome on my Chromebook and then chromium when I flashed the Chromebook to Ubuntu after my support schedule ended. I get it for free through the school district where I work and am using my two licenses on my computer and on my friend’s computer where I definitely do much of my modeling. -cough- lie -cough-

          If you or anyone you know has an email account from an educational institution, you should be able to access it for free!

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            Shit I didn’t know about the education email thing, I’ll have to give that a shot soon.

            I’m currently using the hobby license of it.

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        But you can save your files locally, and then delete them. The 10 file limit isn’t really a limit. It’s an annoyance.

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        The 10 file limit really isn’t that bad, I just set my files in Fusion 360 from “editable” to “read only” and it frees up more space.

        Then if I need to edit an older one I just go in reverse.

        And the 1 drawing at a time thing I didn’t know was a thing as I normally only have 1 open but there have been a couple times I’ve been working in more than 1.