Rui CarmoFreeCAD is a pretty feature-complete OSS CAD application that has a few idiosyncrasies and quite possibly the worse UX of every single CAD program I’ve ever tried (and I used AutoCAD in DOS).
Re-Docking Palette Windows in GNOME
Type a variation of this in the console:
from PySide import QtGui
Gui.getMainWindow().findChild(QtGui.QDockWidget, ‘Combo View’).setFloating(False)
And yes, this was still present in 2022, with earlier mentions harking back at least 5 years.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternatives | 2025 | Dune3D | a simpler, but more focused alternative that can handle STEP files |
| 2023 | Solvespace | a less burdensome parametric CAD program that, alas, does not support fillets/chamfers | |
| Plugins | 2024 | Modern UI | a ribbon-like UI for FreeCAD that greatly simplifies finding commands |
| 2022 | Nodes Workbench | a visual scripting workbench using node editing |