Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "2025 a great year for designing with opensource!"
I've tried FreeCad but it was incomprehensible junk a year ago. It had an idiotic design flaw/bug, where deleting a point would get everything out of sync and references to objects became mismatched.
2025-04-23 · 1 year ago
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❄ freezr [OP/mod] · 2025-04-24 at 03:44:
@stack I am not very good with 3D in general, it is a skill that I have been constantly failing... 3D software are complicated, so It is FreeCAD. I've never done anything with it, however I patronize one of the guys that work on the BIM part. I do believe this software has the potential to become what Blender became for the animation and rendering. I follow its development closely, and the bug you're referring to has been solved; plus the UI has been improved a lot. I would give it another chance. In the mechanical industry it is a software that is well known and used, it does its job just fine! 😉
@stack
i know what you mean, it just works a bit different than autodesk. you should enable constraints and you have to set some of them manually. remember its a piece of free software, there exist a lot of documentain, before you rant, work your way through it.
🚀 stack · 2025-04-24 at 12:55:
@me -- it was hardly a rant!
Just pointing out a terrible flaw I personally encountered repeatedly in FreeCAD, one that prevents you from making changes to an object, and therefore, rendering it useless. Making changes to your design is a must.
@freezr, I am glad to hear they fixed it -- a bit late in the game. This is a pre-alpha kind of problem, leaving a bad taste for people. Nothing like seeing an almost finished drawing after putting in hours, but any change makes it whack out!
🪴 mstrmeow · 2025-04-25 at 10:07:
inkscape didnt have cmyk support until now? tbh i didnt need an extra way to pick a color, my mains were always hex, rgb and maybe a pinch of hsl
❄ freezr [OP/mod] · 2025-04-26 at 03:29:
...and still doesn't.
Martin is working on integrating capypdf in Inkscape to export PDF in CMYK...
This means that Inkscape won't work natively on CMYK but it will be able to export in CMYK based on the profile you select: the RGB color space will be converted in CMYK accordingly with the destination profile...
Original Post
2025 a great year for designing with opensource! — If your are new to the design open source tools you're lucky, extremely lucky! The status of the opensource design tools has never been so good! FreeCAD got release 1; Blender won an Academy Awards; Inkscape is getting CMYK support; GIMP 3 has been released; Scribus 1.7 devel is production ready! If you are interested in learning about graphic and design, you can start learning with these amazing software that are already at a...