Well, he does describe the issue well.LHC wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:42 pm Yup - another relative newcomer here patiently waiting for realthunders work to appear in the main branch. I'm in the camp of waiting rather than start to do real work in the RT branch for all the reasons that have been stated. But it's a painful wait
I have been told that the RT branch also uses some code that may not meet the open source license of the main branch and might end up being an add on at best.
In any case, the topo issue is starting to be a well publicized thing and hopefully the fix will be merged soon. Just yesterday I came across this video. The fellows explanation of just what the topo issue is was one of the better ones I have seen for a newcomer.
https://youtu.be/QSsVFu929jo
I do miss the productivity I had with Fusion 360.....but I'm never going back to that miserable Autodesk !
But, says he's not there to moan and complain...then proceeds to do just that. Proclaiming FreeCAD to be fundamentally broken.
To me that would imply no users can do any useful work with the the tool as it stands. But, this is proven not to be the case by...well, users all over the world.
Should the TNP issue be fixed? A resounding yes. (If for no other reason than many are sick of hearing about it... )
To me, there is far to much energy focused on the "issue".
If, like many of us, a user, new or old, can't help fix it, their focus should be on how to use the tool effectively, as it stands, warts and all.
So, learning a few techniques that will make a model more stable and sustainable (with or without TNP) and then getting on with what you want to do, just seems to be where the focus of the current user should be. If those techniques are too onerous, then use the RT branch.
When someone says: "well, to model in FreeCAD you need to do these things to avoid this or that... and to do that operation you need to do it this way..." then the response for me is "noted, that's how I'll do it." That's how to be effective with the tool. The response: "Well, that's not how it works in other software..." is simply not productive. (unless, like RT, you fire up your IDE and change it.)