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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • I’ve used several CAD solutions as a toolmaker. And tested even more. All Windows only. I wear the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD at home because

    1: It’s free and I don’t need to buy a subscription. Billed monthly or annually-- your choice. I can use FreeCAD as I see fit.

    1. It does NOT require me to store my data in the cloud. I have worked on things that were trade secrets.

    2. If my internet connection goes down I can’t access my work with the full ability to manipulate it.

    3. I absolutely detest the clown car UX that is Fusion 360. I don’t want to click an icon and get a dropdown menu that’s a dozen entries long, then click one of those and getting a submenu that’s ANOTHER 6 entries deep. Ain’t nobody got time for that shit.

    4. Learning difficult things does not scare me.