This! So true! As a general rule, engineering software has horrendous UI/UX, no matter the field.

​@@sniperwolf50 Probably because the software is made by engineers rather than designers. Hopefully the two disciplines can learn to work together better in software, like they do in web-dev, architecture, and automotive.

Agreed, alot of people was turned off by Blender prior to 2.8 coming out cause of how bad the UI was to navigate.

It´s the FreeCad ux. Maybe, it´s FreeCad with another name.

A bit out of topic but I'd like to share my gripe about Linux. Despite having UX in its name, the Linux gatekeeper still insist on using command line to do basic stuff. UX is how you get new people to adopt the thing and I hope Ondsel proves it.

It's an interesting request, thank you!

Was about to watch this video, but now I see the cloud is involved, won't waste my time.

​@@solasauto A much better UX and commercial support at the cost of an extra button you won't use. Not sure why that's a deal breaker...

@@Caellyan Knowing exactly where your data goes is very important, not only for ITAR sensitive projects, but others as well.

@@cfgosnell There's a difference between telemetry and a cloud option. If you don't use the cloud and the program doesn't collect sensitive information it's a nonissue.

I see Angus therefore it must be good ;)

Do you also love ironing your hands in the oven and other masochistic activities? Or do you have a neurodivergence that makes it more usable for you than the rest of us? Asking sincerely, not as an insult.

been 1/3 of a month

@@dimm__ Still can't afford the project. But thx for the reminder.

A little late, but, hey.

@@gentronicus better late than never doing a project now, but doesn't need this atm. thx

Never mind, the shortcuts are actually very sound.

That's the plan :)

It's new, with brand new solver. IMO much easier to use and stable.

@@kwahoo5746 Cool, I'll give it a try.

Thank you! We didn't mean this video to be a tutorial for assemblies. There's an earlier post with the video that is a walk through the workbench: ondsel.com/blog/assembly-wb-prerelease/. It doesn't cover linking, but essentially you open FCStd file that you want to link, then from the document where you assembly is you click the Insert Link button on the toolbar, left click on parts you need, and click ok to finish linking.

@@Ondsel Thanks !

I hope they follow the same path as Blender with corporate sponsors. Maybe even go for an Epic megagrant. I'm a product designer and we often translate for example our CAD models into something to view in Unreal (mostly twinmotion)

Not yet. It's not a trivial task.

Download process has changed. Create an account. It's free. At the end of the signup process there's a link to download.

It is what FreeCAD was missing all the time for me. While also beeing able to search for freecad tutorials and use them for Ondsel. Pretty good so far.

We work on UX/UI, but there's no goal to make it SolidWorks-like specifically. Just removing hurdles.

Likewise, I jumped ship during the last Autodesk purge of hobbyists and I am pretty sure there are going be many more. Fusion 360 does not allow non-paying users to create more than one page in any file in the drawing environment which frankly is an insult, FreeCAD's Techdraw workbench is miles better that Fusion 360's drawing environment and plays fairly nicely with the ever improving Inkscape. Once you understand what you are working with, FreeCAD (particularly the dev builds like Ondsel's) are really productive.

sketchup's format is proprietary so there's not much we can do. Step file import is very well supported. STL is a mesh format. They can be imported into ondsel/FreeCAD and conversion is possible but any time you try to convert from a mesh to a solid, the results will be less than satisfactory.

Для LINUX есть безграничный) Siemens NX.

Interesting, so... Would it be like adjusting geometry based on CFD analysis?

@@Ondsel Well yes, but actually no... In catia shape design you create surfaces and thicken them afterwards. (Only outer shell is created with offset for thickening) I can do this in inventor, but it starts getting difficult when I want to place e.g.: A true 3D spline and create a surface with 4 of them (like a 2d surface fill but 3d). In catia I now have the option to create smooth transitions between multiple such "fills" through supports that dictate an exact orientation at a certain point. If you want I can make a video and send it to you.

It's open source, use whatever you want

The desktop CAD software is free for any purpose. In fact, if you make money using it, come to tell us, and we'll feature you :)

It's worth asking how this is financed. It's a commercial company so they are looking to make money. Are they going to start charging for the app later? From what I can gather, they have pricing plans now that only monetize the cloud and collaborative features. I think that is a good approach. FreeCAD is promising but has really struggledto develop, it does takes time and money to develop this stuff. They state: "The source code of Ondsel ES is public and available under the same license as upstream FreeCAD, which is LGPLv2+. The same applies to the Lens addon." They also state that Ondsel files can be opened with FreeCAD. I'm cautiously optimistic. It seems similar to how MuseScore operates, which so far is a good model. The sheet music editing app is free and open source, while they charge a sub for full access to the online score sharing service. It works for me anyway, and my musician friends, many of whom subscribe. And MuseScore has developed into a very deep and capable tool. I would compare this to blender but I still don't know how they pay for that development! Blender is astounding. Go Ondsel and may the FOSS be with you!

Not much in this release (better sanity reports, bugfixes), but there's ongoing work to improve the tool library's UX. There's vastly more things to do than that, of course. We'll get there :)

The build is based on 0.22dev from roughly two weeks ago.

@@Ondsel Thanks, I'll give her a go!

Yes. Will work exactly like FreeCAD without an account

Yes, there are CAM tools for 2D/2.5D machining

'App' as in 'mobile app'? No immediate plans.

@@Ondsel ya, kind of like shaper3d or I think you can somewhat do it with onshape. But I understand, this is still early and that would be probably not essential for a while. Definitely focus on the native software first

Nope, not true. We are contributing heavily to core FreeCAD. We are leading the development of the new integrated assembly workbench. This release includes the workbench which has not been merged to upstream FreeCAD yet.

Check out the pricing. There is a free option and a team subscription. The price is extremely reasonable.

OpenDark theme, a custom preference pack. The new integrated workbench code which has not been merged to FreeCAD yet. Also a handful of sketcher improvements which have also been submitted to upstream FreeCAD but not yet merged.

Correct on both accounts :)

Okay! :)

Only in the sense that you'll see much of that in FreeCAD 1.0 eventually.

Assuming you're on windows, you'll unzip the file with a recent version of 7zip. The binary file is in the /bin directory and is called freecad.exe. The next version of Ondsel will have a proper installer and signed binaries but these things take time.

Thank you. Now why couldn't Ondsel just put that on their website? Strike one right off the bat. Thanks again.@@sliptonic

@@rony7751 Life in an early-stage startup. A million things to do and not enough people/money/time to do them all. We're doing the best we can and we'll get better! Thanks for bearing with us.

Hi, this is temporary until we start making installers. Please see ondsel.com/support/ for a guide

Hi, it's accessible right from the homepage, downloads require registration

@@OndselHello, and thank you.

Yes, absolutely!

Yes, you can draft 2D designs too

Totally understand, the learning curve is steep. But that’s precisely the problem this project is trying to address, and they’ve made big changes to the sketcher, including adding offsets. ;)😊

It really isn't that bad, the problem is that the in the stable release the UI is unorganised and there is very little in the way of comprehensive instruction for use. Ondsel is an attempt to deal with this problem, in particular things like the sketcher offset which is now in both the Ondsel build and the FC dev builds. I think this was one of the things Ondsel were able to improve and share with the main branch, the next stable version of FreeCAD is going to be a huge improvement and it is likely to improve pretty steadily after.

Ondsel ES has an offset tool in Sketcher :)

Assuming you are running Windows, download the Windows build, unpack the archive, go to the 'bin' folder and double-click 'freecad.exe'. We'll have a regular installer when we get a USB token to sign installers, this takes a long time.

right now it's a release ahead

There are many places to contribute to FreeCAD/Ondsel. Simulation, CAM, Robotics, sheet metal, etc. Welcome!

FreeCAD UI/UX still has a ways to go but is remarkably complete feature-wise. FEM, CAM, and many other features. Thanks for trying it out and check back. You'll see it continue to improve and will always be much less expensive than solidworks.

We suggest donating to the FreeCAD Project Association - FreeCAD's own non-profit. The money goes into things like the grant program where developers make useful changes and get paid for doing that.

well it's still freecad just there providing development and money for it's improvement (like what happened to blender)

We're focusing on the three big problems in FreeCAD right now. Toponaming mitigation, assembly, and UI/UX. UI/UX isn't a 'one and done' problem. It's going to take a long time to make the workflow smooth and consistent but that shouldn't stop real users from getting value from it immediately.

Out of those 3 priorities, the one that affects all users and does not have a workaround is the UI/UX. The other two are important, but less so.@@Ondsel

That's one of our major goals!

Sorry, we do not have an on-premise option yet, largely depends on how much demand we get for it

By the way, you have a really interesting project. Let's talk?

@@Ondsel We've got a meeting set up for Monday. I'm Cooper from Rack Robotics

@@ZURAD Looking forward to it!