Once again, “I don’t understand this, I guess it’s up to me to explain how it works.”
I didn’t go to software engineering school. I went to flight school. Reading and understanding the source code of an application as large and complex as FreeCAD is outside my skillset.
I’m a flight instructor. I can and have taken people from never having flown a plane before to licensed pilot. You want me to teach flight school, you’ve got to give me the plane’s POH. It is not my job to write the Pilot’s Operating Handbook. It is my responsibility to teach students how to read it.
You get me good documentation for this software I’ll create and publish a course on parametric furniture design. But I’m not going to sift through source code trying to figure out how to write a macro any more than I’m going to pull the panels off a Cessna and trace wires to figure out what the switches do. That is the responsibility of the people who made the damn thing.
I’m pretty sure I can demonstrate that doesn’t work; people have donated more money to the project than I’m capable of giving alone and that didn’t bring about usable documentation. The definition of insanity is watching other people fail and then doing exactly what they did.
Either donate or write the documentation yourself, complaining about unpaid FOSS devs and maintainers doesn’t do anything
Once again, “I don’t understand this, I guess it’s up to me to explain how it works.”
I didn’t go to software engineering school. I went to flight school. Reading and understanding the source code of an application as large and complex as FreeCAD is outside my skillset.
I’m a flight instructor. I can and have taken people from never having flown a plane before to licensed pilot. You want me to teach flight school, you’ve got to give me the plane’s POH. It is not my job to write the Pilot’s Operating Handbook. It is my responsibility to teach students how to read it.
You get me good documentation for this software I’ll create and publish a course on parametric furniture design. But I’m not going to sift through source code trying to figure out how to write a macro any more than I’m going to pull the panels off a Cessna and trace wires to figure out what the switches do. That is the responsibility of the people who made the damn thing.
Maybe a commercial offering would be a better choice for you.
The only other package even remotely compatible with Linux is OnShape and their licensing terms are a non-starter. Frankly so are AutoDesk’s.
Then donate money to the project
I’m pretty sure I can demonstrate that doesn’t work; people have donated more money to the project than I’m capable of giving alone and that didn’t bring about usable documentation. The definition of insanity is watching other people fail and then doing exactly what they did.