Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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FreeCAD is often recommended as the best free parametric 3D modelling program, but how useable is it really? I decided to test it out and compare it to Ondsel ES, as well as the Onshape free plan.

Resources/Links:

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:16 FreeCAD 0.22 Dev
1:59 Themes
3:06 Starting the part
4:22 Sketch workflow
7:17 Turning the sketch into solid geometry
8:51 Completed model walkthrough
9:40 Bugs...
13:06 Designing the same part in Onshape
14:28 What about Ondsel ES?