i always just pirate the paid software

@@maurice7017 what website did you use to pirate solidworks?

@@kylloxx i didnt pirate solidworks yet cause i get it for free from my school

@@maurice7017 alright cheers, what did you pirate?

@@kylloxx photoshop, premiere and after effects

Solidworks cracked is also free

@@rafaelconceicao8437 they will find you...

@@billgillette2859 who will?

@@billgillette2859 No, i use cracked solidwork since one month behind

@@burntham8752 Dassault Systems. If you log onto the internet for any updates or anything using a cracked SW copy, the software will ping Dassault. And then about 2 weeks later you will get a legal demand letter for a lot of money

I have used AutoDesk and Soildworks in university. Now I use FreeCAD and OpenSCAD. I found FreeCAD to be buggy. OpenSCAD is the lighest and most bug free product but a little slower to develop stuff. Where are you from

​@@himanshusingh5214 I just used OpenSCAD. I designed the complex singular part with FreeCAD and make the array of the exported model with OpenSCAD. 3D printing with OpenSCAD is much easier than with FreeCAD. The constraint-based design with FreeCAD is more intuitive. I would say that FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are not entirely in a "one versus one" situation. They can cooperate together to aid convenient design. There is even an OpenSCAD workbench in FreeCAD.

But not user friendly.

@@layereight3289 the sketcher is pretty user friendly, but yeah it isn't obvious what to do when you first open it lol.

@@layereight3289 I use at uni solidworks and for homestuff freecad FreeCad is way nicer and easier ;)

Freecad is not easy because it's not have "built in" feature to do complex task. For example, for me the easiest way to render a good visual, I need use blender. In SW I just need photo 360 menu. Maybe for people whose mastering fundamentals of engineering drawing, freecad is very powerful tools

yes, that was wrong.

seems like FreeCAD doesn't have as much flexibility for design iterations? I had to remake features to get the full suite of options that determine the feature.

He was saying about SolidWorks but was showing FreeCAD images. I also got that wrong. hehe

How much does freecad costs ??or it is free ??

@@ahmedbenrhiou3283 it's free

you mean deceitfull, as also nanoCAD

well, what can i say, no comparison open source.. i know all established cad ware needs to make money. but hey, exorbitant price where students can be use for free during UNI days , but what about after that, only a handful can afford.. something needs to be done on cost of owning it. Engineering student will suffer. Thanks free cad.. just get use to it

It's about $5k for a license, and they want to get you for a few $K/yr in "support and upgrades", however support is something that most competent people never use. Also, if you're running an older version, you're often stuck, because newer versions can open older versions, but not the other way around. It's extremely frustrating, and a major reason I'm looking to ditch Solidworks.

You can get it for $99/year.

@@ulfrinn8783 Maybe for the student version, which prints "STTUDENT VERSION" all over every drawing you touch with it. This is not acceptable.

What are the differences? The video explains nothing, the text is only copied and read.

yeah, many people fail to realise the role of social structures.... shhh, read the supposedly leaked book "secret" lol, it's all about the social structures and inability of people to comprehend such causes

Smart.

I agree with you. Although, How would this be done?

did you ever find out how FreeCAD handles very large assemblies? I've just started playing with it the last few days and I'm not impressed.

@@Jaze2022 I´m on the same spot, what did you find out?

@@marianoruiz9039 horribly. There's no official assembly support. The plugins are clunky. Don't expect the level of seamlessness and flexibility as in something like solidworks. What you get is something like inserting a part into a part in solidworks. It's also slow. I never tried making a sub assembly. Making a single assembly was bad enough.

The FreeCAD videos were taken from this channel: m.kzfaq.info Don't know about other videos

See a therapist...

@@hollyc5417 Solidworks is better software, but unless you are a dedicated professional, you can do most things with FreeCAD without need to pay extra

@@dumpsockpuppet5619 what about 20,000 component assemblies?

Jaze if you make those kinds of designs your high 6 figure income and work payed solidworks will do the job

@@captainheat2314 SW probably won't but when making assemblies this large you likely can afford something good like NX.

IMHO Autodesk Inventor is better than Solidworks but yeah, F360 doesn't compare with any of these.

@@elementiro I tried Inventor for a few minutes but you can't even remap the orbit control from shift + rmb to middle click, noped right out of there

One costs 1400/year. The other costs between 22-26 grand.

BrunoDSL near $2K a year for solid works compared to $0 forever on freecad yea solid work beats it with way higher funding and hugely bigger team

I would believe so. I've had experience with CREO and Solidworks. Using similar features in FreeCAD is almost the same.

The purpose of both software is the same. It's finding the button you need to click to make that change.

I recommend using the Launcher addon in FreeCAD to minimize button hunting

@@AllanLaal yeah, that helps a lot

I do believe that is the channel outro, he's not talking about cad at that point

@@pololopezn.4588 ohhhw, so lonnnng outro. 👍

Thats an interesting point. You can try Moment Of Inspiration for 90 days!

good luck with that. Open source doesn't mean good. And FreeCAD isn't. You'd be better off with the free community edition of SolidEdge

@@ulfrinn8783 well i refuse to support any proprietary garbage so im using it anyway

@@lucywucyyy They have a lot of work to do. They have a lot of silly features that aren't even remotely relevant to most target users. Blender had that problem too. This gives them a dropdown menu for toolbars so long it becomes a mess. FreeCAD is a mess, and seems to lack focus. When they fix that, as Blender eventually did, then it'll be good software. But first, the developers of it have to realize these things, and figure out who their target audience actually is. They should be focusing on the hobbyist community. No engineering firm or manufacturing company is going to replace their Solidworks or Inventor licenses with FreeCAD, but if they focused more on simply being a Fusion 360 alternative, it could be quite good. But as present, they can't even get constraints right, and they're adding garbage like ray tracing features...

@@ulfrinn8783 well il see i guess

Probably cuz it's called PaidCAD?

Um... yeah CAD 🙄

The paid part is support

@@seemysight I cannot recall who it was who proposed the "paid support" model (Richard Stallman, maybe?) but his proposal was that software should be free to use, but support beyond a certain level would cost $$. This sounds like that model.

I've used Soldiworks and Creo for work. Although the latter is very hard to configure and more difficult to use, it turns out to work better when the model needs to be changed. With SW I could not manage to modify a simple assembly (two plastic shells) without mistakes, conflicting contraints etc. The best I've tried is Catia however

SW can't possible be as bad as FC. FC is the most buggy piece of software I've had the displeasure of using in my 35 years of computing. FC is free, I get that, but what good is free if literally every project I've ever attempted to create with it has been an abject failure due to bugs? As of today, I have abandoned yet another parametric, spreadsheet-based project because I cannot get it to render a specific feature correctly when updating a single spreadsheet value: constraints on a specific sketch that make use of the changed spreadsheet value break in ridiculously bad ways, depending on how many times I change the value: horizontal distance constraint from the origin to a vertex on the sketch moves itself to another vertex, or vertices from multiple line segments get fused together into a single line segment, or segments completely disappear from the sketch altogether. This is just one example of many that will have you hating FC if you try to do anything but the simplest of things. I always end up going back to Blender to create my models. It sucks, though, that Blender does not support parametric design.

I much prefer Solidworks over most anything else... Creo, Inventor, F360 and Freecad. It's true you need to break things up in large assemblies and freeze the stuff you aren't working on. For drawings though, I didn't mind Creo. I worked in an engineering studio for 5 years as a drafter and designer.

All 3D modeling programs are single-threaded! If you worked in the industry for 30 years, you would know that!

If you know one CAD software, learning another is simpler. FreeCAD and solidworks are pretty different but freecad is not a bad starting point

solidworks hands down. more intutive, faster, industry standard

easiest CAD softwares are SW and F360, then Inventor/Solid Edge after that comes Creo/CATIA/NX.

@@Jaze2022 If he is rich then yes solid works, however, if he is like a normal person, then freeCad is better lol. The cost of solid works is crazy expensive for an average day user who is not making money off of cad designing. You can't get better price wise than free.

never heard about it before, looking into it now.

@@yash1152 TS 7 is a pleasure to use, though I can't compare to SW since I never used it.

Have you used it recently? It's slowly catching up and already does more than many users need. I used Solidworks for several years, now FreeCAD has taken its place and is fine for what I do with it.

@@XXXXXX-dy5fs I make large industrial assemblies with 20,000 components that needs to be iterated over and over again. Is FreeCAD a good solution? I'm struggling with the assembly side of things as well as some part design features don't let you edit all the parameters of the features. Do I just have more learning to do?

​@@Jaze2022 for assembly, sure, freecad's not good. They have not developed it yet, for designing it's fairly good. Can you please share the details on where it did not let you edit the parameters?? I know some missing things like Boundary Boss, inability to Flip side for operation, but am yet to stumble on a place where a parameter was locked.

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about 1k per year or something like that

Sure you can and you should. You might not get very favorable results for FreeCAD yet, but well, at least you get some idea of how far away you are from eventually reaching that version 1.0 These things are literally decades long projects, a lot of patience is needed.

You can. A great example. Blender and (the entire Autodesk 3D suite) Of course maya and blender have some differences and and some are better in some aspects than the other. And IMO blender is better to the point of having access to a full license I prefer using it (having learned 3D in maya) Another great example is photoshop and Krita. IMO photoshop is better but krita is very close. To the point that if I weren’t able to get a full license to photoshop I would use krita and not feel any real workflow difference. Free shit is getting better by the day. Solid works is still miles ahead of freecad. But in the future who knows how this will sway

​@@hollyc5417 To me, it sounds like English is not his first language. Many people post here from different countries. I don't know what his native language is, but I suspect that you couldn't speak his language nearly as well as he speaks English. This is why we try not to have grammar police

@@seemysight Krita is made more for drawing than photo editing, GIMP would be a better comparison and although it's good, I don't think it can match photoshop. Affinity Photo is not free or open source, but for €25 it is really good

I think SW Pro is 5-7k

@@rhadiem it's a bit hard to say as the only way to get those prices is being annoyed by a SW rep every second to close a deal.

what is nx?

@@dinisdesigncorner332 Did you hear about Unigraphic? The latest version called NX

@@rickychung7611 you mean Siemens NX

@@mehanikal5639 Yes, especially complex surface profile

Unfortunately it is one or two orders of magnitude more expensive than Solidworks.

How can you say there are not professionals that use FreeCAD, of course SW is much more developed than FreeCAD, but that doesn't mean no one uses FreeCAD professionally.

@@Edgard422 It's true enough, engineering costs are so high that it makes no sense to waste these valuable working hours wrestling with less than ideal software package. Sure the professional software costs thousands or even tens of thousands, but so what, cost of the engineering hour starts from above 100$

I'm a professional and use FreeCAD and other opensource software instead of Solidworks. It does everything I need to get the job done.

I am a professional and I use FreeCAD. Nice, Hassel free way to get it installed on many computers without a license and simply boot it up an load work on any computer. I typically design fairly simple parts that are meant for function/ease of machining rather than aesthetic though and so SOLIDWORKS might be much better in that regard.

@Baz either talk in facts, or shut up. these peacock terms dont help at all.

I laugh in Pro|Engineer. The difficultmostest, heart breaking software in the universe. Never try to wing it. Nothing intuitive about it. You must read a complete book and watch many videos before getting the hang of how it works. But if you can persevere to the end, it becomes smooth sailing.

@@JohnFekoloid Catia is way harder and tiring to use imo, ProE was nice and easy in comparison and assemblies felt really robust. Not sure if Creo is any better or worst though...

Not anymore :) those guys will and are starting to remove features constantly and it is a cloud software.

Yes it is BUT not free anymore for hobbyists. And that's why I chose freecad. (A steep learning curve for my age 60 year)

@@mclam5623 It still seems to be free for personal use? I've been trying both FreeCad and Fusion 360, but working with constrains in FreeCad feels quite clunky and if I want go back changing something in first object I've created it usually explodes everything attached to that object. So I donated some money for FreeCad and went on with Fusion 360. FreeCad doesn't seem to be getting much money so I don't expect it to evolve much in future.

@@finnderp9977 I'm not that far into freecad to see the hurdles yet. And Fusion = Autodesk = free until the most features are working properly and most of the bugs are solved. I'm using Autocad since v.13, and always the same story, some time for free, then paying. And there's the problem for me, I'm a hobbyists, I don't create spectacular things. I don't design tools, machinerys, vehicles, boots nor plains. So I can't afford it to pay that amount Autodesk asks. And I don't blame them, they have to make money, just not mine 😄

@@mclam5623 Yeah, well I've printed parts designed in FreeCad so its not limited in that way. It just takes more time, maybe few crashes and if you change design you probably need to repeat stuff several times. Or maybe there would been better way to do things but couldn't figure it out.