I recently decided to force myself to actually learn FreeCad. I’ve tried on and off for the past two years but just couldn’t get along with the UI and workflow…well, now I’m giving it an honest shot, and after a few weeks of misery, it is getting better.
But my laptop is not particularly powerful, and I frequently have performance issues when working with imported step-files. Lo and behold, you can run FreeCad in docker, so I can use my server which is significantly more powerful and just access via browser.
The catch is, it seems to run even worse than on my laptop. I can also see that it actually doesn’t use much of the available power of the server. Does anyone have experience with setting up a docker compose for FreeCad? I’ve looked at the docs and my GPU should be passed through and I’ve also allocated 32GB ram to the container. But it doesn’t actually use it it seems.
Not an answer to your question, but i’m more curious about how you started learning freeCAD. Was there a tutorial or something you followed?
I’m currently in the same boat as you, trying to learn but it’s not really intuitive.
I’ve used this tutorial series it’s pretty good, although he talks a bit too slow for my liking so I played it at 1.25 speed.
I liked this series. Dude is designing a bike in freecad and showing you how to follow along.
https://youtu.be/vLCZM0fDMX0