Based on our record, Affinity Designer seems to be a lot more popular than FreeCAD. While we know about 46 links to Affinity Designer, we've tracked only 2 mentions of FreeCAD. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
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Also FreeCAD has a gcode workbench for full 3D. I've used it a little and would describe it as "usable once you work out the quirks". Https://freecadweb.org/. Source: about 3 years ago
There's Affinity Designer, too. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Affinity Designer (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/) is a good choice for doing layouts, although Scribus (https://www.scribus.net/) may be all that you need depending on the complexity of your layouts. Source: almost 1 year ago
Done in Serif Affinity Designer as a learning execise I guess. Source: about 1 year ago
You'll need inkscape. It's free at inkscape.org. Affinity Designer can do the same job. It's $70 at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/. Source: about 1 year ago
If you want to do very sophisticated edits, you can actually use Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer to edit PDF files (but they are obviously terrible readers). Source: about 1 year ago
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