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Yeah, the different, incompatible assembly plugins is why I stopped using FreeCAD a few years ago.

That's reportedly been fixed (guess they picked a winner?), but I haven't taken a look since. I probably will, at some point, but I generally have a different focus these days.

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They didn't pick a winner. They (Ondsel and others) evaluated all the workbenches, chose the best ideas and built a new workbench around a new (well, new to C++) solver.

There was an Ondsel blog post about this:

https://ondsel.com/blog/default-assembly-workbench-7/

Thanks, that's good info. It sounds like a really optimal outcome. :)

It is. The chap they hired to do port his solver has done really great motion solving work in the past (and, amusingly, had an application called "FreeCAD" before FreeCAD existed).

http://www.ar-cad.com

It's very positive that he's working for Ondsel.

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