Solve space and openSCAD are both great options. I have been learning solve space lately and it is great. I couldn’t learn freecad, something about the UI and workflow was just too unintuitive for me.
I was burnt by fusion 360. Had some of “my” designs locked in the cloud when they spent 2 weeks and a dozen emails trying to “fix” my educator access. The fix they really wanted was my credit card details. I refuse to use or teach anyone to use that ecosystem now.
Not defending the lack of updates in any way. But you can fix this if you login with a browser and enable all languages in your account settings.
Wikipedia is amazing, and I have donated to them a number of times. But something just rubs me the wrong way about their current donation drive and anything I read about how much their higher ups are getting paid makes no sense to me. Why are the salaries so high? Where is the clear breakdown of server cost and infrastructure?
I feel like this needs to be a PSA pinned to this community. Far too often it would say 2 comments and I would see nothing untill I did this.
Blender has a decent cam processor add-on. Solve space and openSCAD are other very good parametric CAD programs.