This doesn’t sound like an issue for those who use Fusion frequently, however you may want to find ways to get local files, just to be safe.

  • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Seriously give Ondsel a try if you haven’t, has a different ui on top of freecad and a few workflow changes/sketch tools that make it less clunky. I use realthunder + modern ui for freecad and while yeah, there’s clunk, it’s useable and importantly, no limits on your files. Modern UI gives freecad a ribbon bar and some other enhancements that I like, swapping between benches took a bit to get used to, draft at least the hotkeys are kinda sorta intuitive and make the flow a lot nicer.

    I switched cold turkey off of SW Maker for that reason, it limits where your files can be opened on that license, plus kept trying to save my files to a cloud storage by default. I’ve said it before, yeah freecad isn’t perfect, has clunk, but it’s provided to me free of charge with no limitations on its usage, I’ll gladly accept that.

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        That sucks! Seems to work on my oldish laptop, can’t recall if I used on my really old one too but they both have 16gb of ram and running an appimage on Debian for those, windows seems to be happy with it. Running the python 3.11 versions as well, idk if that makes a difference

        • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          It doesn’t really have a major impact on the workflow from what I’ve tried, it’s still the shitty workflow of regular freecad.

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It’s an add-on ModernUI I really like it, configurable as well, mainly use for ribbon bar and dockable panels


        from the github, I use small icons with no labels (like the window in the middle), works well for me on an ultrawide.