FreeCAD Legacy Migration
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Introduction
This page is meant to document the motivation of why OSE should migrate away from FreeCAD 16 or FreeCAD Legacy.
Motivation
The is motivation for migrating away from FreeCAD Legacy.
FreeCAD 17 Features
- Addon Manager - Vastly simplifies installing additional workbenches and macros
- Part: Attachment - Links, or attaches objects parameterically which means that if the attached-to object's placement changes, then the attached object will update it's position automatically.
FreeCAD 18 Features
- Part - Explode Compound - Explode a compound into it's individual parts
Python 2 Is No Longer Supported!!!
Python 2 was sun-setted on January 1, 2020. That means the Python Software Foundation will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can.