I knowww I know save your forks and torches but I’m in the middle of a fully 3D printed homelab project and I can’t afford to start learning FreeCad just yet.
Everytime I even begin to think about using windows on my second laptop makes me kick and scream, its genuinely vomit inducing and its keeping me from finishing my project.
I’ve been using it through wine for two years now, using this repo.
It works surprisingly well, sometimes there’s some flickering, but not enough to prevent me from working. It gets a bit slow to react on big assemblies, though that might also be the case on windows. logging in is a pain, luckily that’s only every 1-2 months. it not seeing linux drives and having to copy files from/to wine’s drive_c is a bit annoying.
but overall it’s good enough, haven’t booted the windows partition in those two years and I’m willing to deal with this to be windows free. But if i had to use it professionally as a daily driver, that would probably be different.
I did have to reinstall it twice in the two year period, though.
Its not FOSS but it works great on Linux in the browser… OnShape
If you happen to have an education account, you can stream it through your browser.
The state of FreeCAD after the 1.1 release is absolutely excellent!
EDIT: Just read your full question. Anyway, after your done with this project, I highly suggest the migration. I recently did it and am not looking back. I just exported all my Fusion designs as step files and can open them in FreeCAD, though not wothbthe full parametric history.
I’ll have to try it again at some point. I found it kinda brutal last time I tried it, and was gonna just try the blender plugin that adds some parametric features next time
If things have improved I guess I’ll have to give it another go at some point
It was the same for me, but 1.1 made a huge leap in usability
that’s what I’m definitely doing after this project, I’m tired of proprietary software and fusion is the last thing I need to cut off
You can run it through Winboat or via a standard VM, but like Adobe they hate you running it via Wine, and will try to block you from doing so.
So your best bet will be VM+GPU passthrough.
