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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Solidworks, Fusion360, Altium, and a few others

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I refuse to use Fusion360 because of what Autodesk did to Eagle (and my forever licence)

    Autodesk are awful.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Fusion360 actively attempts to block wine usage so you have to use a VM (or a single application VM like Winboat) for it to play ball. I haven't had experience with any of the others though.

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    Makes a container windows install.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Do you have to see if the application you want to host is supported, or is it pretty compatible?

    There are some windows softwares i want to run, but they don't work in wine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Solid Edge is what had me keeping a Win10 instance for a while, but finally gave up on it after the OS kept corrupting itself. Started learning Onshape instead, which is web based and works under Linux. It's a passable replacement for doing basic 3d sketches.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Could we find Open Source alternatives? I've gotten good use of blender for these but I don't know your use cases

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Blender is world class, but the CAD softwares are leagues behind, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Whilst FreeCAD certainly doesn't have feature parity with things like Creo, I firmly believe it is good enough for most people. I switched to only using that for all my contract work and personal projects and it's generally been fine

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I wish there were open source alternatives to Autocad, but freecad is doing its own thing and as someone who uses Autocad as part of her career it's so much easier to keep a partition for when I need to throw something together than to learn how to make freecad work

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