+1, as i wrote in an other similar topic: a serious CAD is not an ad hoc use program, never was, never will be.
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+1, as i wrote in an other similar topic: a serious CAD is not an ad hoc use program, never was, never will be.
I once heard an old lady say, "If you get invited to a picnic where people are saying 'we can have chicken and we can have corn' don't go. You'll go hungry. But if someone is saying, 'I'll bring the chicken' and someone else says, 'I'll bring the corn' THAT'S the picnic to attend."Zolko wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:05 pm
...So the question becomes: should we consider their request and ship FreeCAD with a default configuration that follows general industrial practices and that costs NOTHING in development time,
...or should we continue to ignore these recurring claims and ride our high horse ?
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Depends... But all the time saying CAD is difficult yada yada yada don't make it better. FC is more difficult also compared with other CAD software. It is what it is but that don't mean we should leave it like that? Why not trying to make FC as intuitive as possible.
I agree entirely with what you just said there!Jee-Bee wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:44 pmDepends... But all the time saying CAD is difficult yada yada yada don't make it better. FC is more difficult also compared with other CAD software. It is what it is but that don't mean we should leave it like that? Why not trying to make FC as intuitive as possible.
If the goal is FC should be as user friendly as SW(If another one is more user friendly replace it, i just don't know it ) AND as flexible, stable as Creo than FC is the best CAD software on earth!!
That require work, and acceptance of change from all of us...
Again, I agree. Personally I really like the original idea of MacOS. I don't like what they are doing today at Apple but their original concept was good and anyone loved that. I also want FC to be the best CAD software in the world! Who wouldn't? But I think that we are gonna need a "Top 10 of 2022", and after that a "Top 10 of 2023" and after that... You know what I mean. Maybe even bundle that list to the release schedule.my motivation: I think there is no reason CAD is difficult (assuming we don't speak about double curved surfaces and some corner cases with weird fillets and draft stuff). Engineering can be difficult and CAD software shouldn't be a leading part of it
So far it is easy doing; here is my top ten:
Here things become less easy: Who is these "we", who should do the fixing? MS can assign work to some developer and he will do for the money he gets. We can also assign work to developers. And they will do it or they will not. Or they will do something else. Should we forbid workiing on other things than the top ten? Sure not, as it could stop all developments for years or forever.and fix these issues then we could also fix the serious issues. And be proud to fix them.
This is bassically the short version what i meant with:
Jee-Bee wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:43 pm A point i have personally difficulties with is related on development but directly. It is a roadmap kind of thing.
What i strugle with is that i have quite often the feeling that there is no overview on the project in what functions do we want to add. when do we want these functions implemented. what features can be improved
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The reason i have personal difficulties with is that it directly involve (a few) devs that are already super busy with a lot of other work...