SolidWorks is pretty much by any objective standard better software. It's also extremely expensive and a product of the French military industrial complex; the fact that FreeCAD wasn't developed to aide the design of French warplanes, and that it is free, is really the only good thing about it.
Running only on PDP-10s was enough to make ITS useless to maybe 90% of the people who used Unix at the time of that story, regardless of whether or not it was, by any objective standard, better software. Being extremely expensive is enough to make SolidWorks useless to maybe 90% of the people who use FreeCAD.
I mean, SolidWorks is fine for hobbyists, who don't need to worry about getting reported to the BSA by a disgruntled employee, or for organizations that have very large budgets. But a lot of people using FreeCAD aren't hobbyists and don't have very large budgets.
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I use SolidWorks on a dedicated workstation.
FreeCAD is far from it in terms of number of geometric tools, and especially 3D path stroking.
Freeform surfaces are a great pain in any CAD, but FreeCAD barely does even basics.
To catch up to SolidWorks, FreeCAD needs like tenfold increase in effort for the geometry kernel.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/12/understanding-the-inn...
That is, some people have different needs, and so dismissing FreeCAD because it doesn't yet fulfill your needs is a mistake.
SolidWorks is pretty much by any objective standard better software. It's also extremely expensive and a product of the French military industrial complex; the fact that FreeCAD wasn't developed to aide the design of French warplanes, and that it is free, is really the only good thing about it.
Running only on PDP-10s was enough to make ITS useless to maybe 90% of the people who used Unix at the time of that story, regardless of whether or not it was, by any objective standard, better software. Being extremely expensive is enough to make SolidWorks useless to maybe 90% of the people who use FreeCAD.
I mean, SolidWorks is fine for hobbyists, who don't need to worry about getting reported to the BSA by a disgruntled employee, or for organizations that have very large budgets. But a lot of people using FreeCAD aren't hobbyists and don't have very large budgets.
I do not understand you
That sounds like 3 years of work given how much it has improved between this version and 0.14 which is the last one I used extensively.