You may want to check out Solid Edge Community Edition. It is now free, has full Solid edge capability, desktop installed, non-cloud, forever license, it places watermarks and files are restricted to community edition only. Seems roughly equivalent to Solidworks a few years back. As far as I can see it has no cam, no simulation.
Great video demonstrating the abilities of the two. I think the 3 programs best together will be Alibre for CAD, FreeCAD for CAD/FEA/CFD, and Fusion 360 for CAM. I have been hearing a lot about SimFlow for CFD though but haven't tried it out to see how nice/user-friendly it is.
Thank you so much for all of your videos. I've recently started my own fabrication and welding business. I occasionally need some modeling, mostly for my own design work. Do you think FreeCad is good enough, or should I invest in Alibre?
Would you mind emailing me at the email in the description? I'd say if you have a long history tree or are making assemblies you'd really see some great value from Alibre
Yes, freecad can import step files for non-native geometry part editing. Freecad has an assembly workbench for building assemblies in freecad with native parts.
Alibre is for Windows only. Does that mean I'll stay a donkey? Anyway, I have to try harder, because I haven't used it for a while and I'm forgetting what little I have learned.
I've been contemplating getting ALIBRE for a while, but this really brings to light how much these 2 can really compliment each other. Great video !
You may want to check out Solid Edge Community Edition. It is now free, has full Solid edge capability, desktop installed, non-cloud, forever license, it places watermarks and files are restricted to community edition only. Seems roughly equivalent to Solidworks a few years back. As far as I can see it has no cam, no simulation.
Great video as always 👍
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
Great video demonstrating the abilities of the two. I think the 3 programs best together will be Alibre for CAD, FreeCAD for CAD/FEA/CFD, and Fusion 360 for CAM. I have been hearing a lot about SimFlow for CFD though but haven't tried it out to see how nice/user-friendly it is.
For an apples-to-apples comparison, try re-importing the step file in FreeCAD then adding the fillet.
That's a great point, that would have been great to try in the video. I tried it just now and still got the errors we saw with the native part.
I just got Alibre Atom3D. I'll get to know it slowly without feeling the pressure of the license running out.
That's something I enjoy about Alibre too!
Thank you so much for all of your videos.
I've recently started my own fabrication and welding business. I occasionally need some modeling, mostly for my own design work. Do you think FreeCad is good enough, or should I invest in Alibre?
Would you mind emailing me at the email in the description? I'd say if you have a long history tree or are making assemblies you'd really see some great value from Alibre
Is it possible to edit 3D part and assembly in FreeCad?
Yes, freecad can import step files for non-native geometry part editing. Freecad has an assembly workbench for building assemblies in freecad with native parts.
Alibre is for Windows only. Does that mean I'll stay a donkey?
Anyway, I have to try harder, because I haven't used it for a while and I'm forgetting what little I have learned.
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