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I was not expecting so many improvements in this version alone, I'm impressed. I was already using it for 3d printing but now it seems it's getting actually good, makes me wonder how I was able to use the previous version.

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I am also impressed by how much they are improving things. It just sucks that they are stuck with the OpenCasacade kernel so making stability improvements are hard to make in areas like fillets and others.

I don't follow Open CASCADE very closely, but it looks like they're on the verge of a new major release (v8.0) themselves that looks like a lot of refactoring and cleanup.

I don't know hat version FreeCAD is actually bundling, but from GitHub it looks like a fork of 7.8.1?

Yes, the OpenCASCADE 8.0 release is very promising. There's a FOSDEM presentation from this year by one of their developers which shows what's in the works.

This is great to hear. I tried it a few years ago, and it was just so far behind onshape and fusion for usability from a beginner perspective.

This is single want to give it another chance

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