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Au contraire... FreeCAD has a confounding UI, except for the sketcher.

For me the problem is less the UI but weird bugs / unimplemented cases in its modeling kernel. Some lofts and tubes just refuse to work for no apparent (to me, a non-expert in CAD) reason. Even worse, simple fillets sometimes don't work as expected on moderately complicated bodies. Maybe if you're an expert you can avoid these case, but it's extremely frustrating to spend several hours successfully modeling the general shape only to be unable to apply simple dress-up features.

I'd really like to use it and master it further, but CAD is not something I need often, and in F360 any geometry I've needed just works.

Yea the open cascade kernel underpinning freecad (and python libraries like build123d and cadquery) has a number of rough edges. Many can be avoided, but that unfortunately requires a bit of experience.

IMO, lofts are often not the best tool for many jobs, but planning around fillet issues can be a pain.

It is far from perfect, but it is quite usable now. https://i.imgur.com/4CezlnJ.png

This is not a release version, though, is it? Or has some additional extensions on top of it?

I've had bad experiences on the latter, as in a lot of breakage occurred :/.

Looks like a dev build of the 1.1 release

I do have FreeCAD Ribbon addon, but I think the rest is as is. Indeed, it is the development version and it is stable, but I'll probably switch to 1.1 stable once it is released, just so that I automatically get the package from my distro.

...which is Arch, by the way :D

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