FreeCAD 1.0 Released
wiki.freecad.orgGreat achievement! It's a pity that Ondsel was shutdown. I'm very grateful to the Ondsel team, they helped a lot to push gears in the right direction.
From personal experience, it was cumbersome to use Freecad about 2 years ago when I first tried to switch over. But today the experience for a hobby user is on par with other CAD programs. It's not the smoothest (toponaming can never be fully solved AFAIK) but I'm no longer have to redo the work.
Worth noting that the Ondsel situation was discussed at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169998
I'm really looking forward to a stable version resulting in approachable documentation. The first traditional 3D CAD program I was even able to get through the tutorial of was Dune 3D https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d/discussions/118 --- hopefully I'll be able to repeat that and build on it in FreeCAD 1.0 (which I've just finished downloading and installing and which is launching now).