> Basically, they are completely hostile to feedback from people who've spent their entire career doing CAD.
There's an entire working group in the project comprised of people who have spent their entire career doing CAD and now take care of making FreeCAD get on par with proprietary counterparts.
There are numerous discussions online where users have constructive conversations with FreeCAD devs and provide useful input to mutual benefit.
Would you care to point me to a discussion where an actual FreeCAD contributor is completely hostile to someone like you?
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Yes, I understand the frustration. The team didn't come up with anything better although maybe they could. I think another suggestion in this thread could very well be posted to GIMP's issue tracker.
2004: STOP TELLING ME I'M GOING TO LOSE MY LAYERS WHEN SAVING TO JPEG!
Also 2004: HOW DO I RECOVER LAYERS FROM JPEG?
2024: STOP TELLING ME YOU ONLY SAVE TO XCF AND I NEED TO EXPORT TO JPEG!
Also 2024: crickets
I'm not kidding you. That is exactly what I've been witnessing all these years. Project loss complaints went from daily routine to almost zero. But there's a price to pay.
Ah, that explains it. Yeah, the next version of the website will integrate the blog into the main website. So navigation shouldn't be a problem anymore.
Neither Fusion nor SolidWorks mention supported operating systems on their respective homepages. That doesn't seem to present an issue, eh? :)
As for your other points, FreeCAD's homepage does explain what this software can do. It says what this software is right on the first screen. You can scroll down past the first screen to see more info. Even more info is on the Features page that is right in the main menu at the top.
I mean, we can argue about the amount of information, but the basics are all right there for you, in very obvious places, no?
Incidentally, a new (and better) website is in the works.
> Yes, that part's obvious just by the name. But what OS does it run on, or does it run in the browser?
The 'download now' button is right on the home page above the fold. When you click it, you see three huge icons for window, linux and macos. Not sure how you could've missed that, but it's there.
Sure, if you like editing with color fidelity loss.
> but nothing substantial on the usability.
Except non-destructive editing is a major UX improvement.
Except unified transform tool is a major UX improvement.
Except... Well, you get the idea. And I barely got started.
It's almost like you just hate the project and won't accept any changes they do.
I too have my fair share of frustrations with the project — enough to quit it as a team member a couple of years ago. But somehow I don't go around pretending big changes aren't big bc I'm feeling petty all of a sudden.
There's an entire working group in the project comprised of people who have spent their entire career doing CAD and now take care of making FreeCAD get on par with proprietary counterparts.
There are numerous discussions online where users have constructive conversations with FreeCAD devs and provide useful input to mutual benefit.
Would you care to point me to a discussion where an actual FreeCAD contributor is completely hostile to someone like you?