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Leave before locked 28 Jun, 2026 A year and a half after switching from Fusion to FreeCAD, I can confidently say I made the right choice. I tried FreeCAD for the first time a long time ago, but it was too rough to get started with. I’m used to commercial CAD software like Inventor, SolidWorks, and Solid Edge. They are all reasonably polished and stable. Back then, FreeCAD had a messy interface and wasn’t very stable. That’s why, when Autodesk released Fusion with a free account for non-commercial use, I was happy to see a premium-level CAD software become available to hobbyists. That excitement didn’t last long because I realized it had some important drawbacks: you must have an internet connection, all your files are stored on Autodesk’s servers, limits on the number of parts you can open at the same time, and opening a STEP or STL file takes forever because it has to be uploaded first. Still, it was much more stable than FreeCAD, so I kept using it. Until I heard that FreeCAD had…