Thanks for the tutorial, but man if FreeCAD draft is inefficient as a 2D cad solution, somebody on the FreeCAD team needs to learn classic AutoCAD and get the Draft Workbench to work more like AutoCAD, in particular offsets, trims, stretching and extending. What it takes 5 mins in AutoCAD in FreeCAD can take up to an hour of endless clicking.
FreeCAD was not developed to be a 2D drafting software. I think currently it is also not the main focus of development. I agree that some of the tools are clumsy when used as a 2D drafting software compared to software created primarily with 2D in mind such as AutoCAD. I think the developers know that, but the problem is that there are not enough resources to fix everything in short time. But they are moving ahead slowly, but surely, in my opinion. Even with the above said, it is still possible to create 2D drawing in FreeCAD, even though sometimes slower than with other specialized tools.
@@FCBlounge I agree with all that you mention, but if FreeCAD is to be successful as a BIM it will have to improve the Draft workbench, most of what is needed is already there, it is mostly a case of mimicking the workflow of a 2D cad program a bit better, I'm not saying they have to clone AutoCAD, but just one example in the video is how the grid doesn't expand automatically to the drawing's extent, and you turn it off, it comes back on on its own.
@@sillonbono3196 I agree with you that there are a lot of powerful tools and that there is a lot of functionality in FreeCAD, which needs to cleaned up. It is true that the grid does not scale dynamically. The grid 'coming back on it's own' is actually a feature - the grid can be setup to turn on automatically when command is started, that is why it showed up and disappeared when the command was finished. I did not mention it in the tutorial, because I wanted to focus on the core task at hand.
