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Title basically.

One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).

Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...

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[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It has a dedicated CAM workbench yeah

Here are some YouTube tutorials for CAM in freeCAD https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaUEbWaf2rhSGcjQK9LYuL4PkV1GzjeIY

And the CAM category on the freeCAD wiki https://wiki.freecad.org/Category:CAM

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I tried it some time ago and it was pretty usable, I reckon it is only better now.