Thats great to hear! I’ll muster up the guts to check it out again, next time I need to model something.

Now if only I were a trained engineer…

There are some CAD-focused plug-ins available, but even with that, you are absolutely correct.

I feel so much less alone after reading this. I don’t thing I’m completely absolved of responsibility, but maybe Freecad is also part of the issue.

Mostly the latter. I taught myself to model by roughing out a shape with cubes and cylinders in the correct dimensions, then refining everything as needed. Freecad seems to require a fully baked 2D sketch before I can extruded anything into 3D. I’ve succeeded in that a couple of times, but its always been a struggle.

Honestly, the biggest hurdle is probably just immersing myself in the learning curve. I was regularly modeling stuff for work when I learned DesignSpark, but I don’t have much call for the skill lately.

Your question has already been answered, but I’m chiming in anyway, just to express my disappointment that this is not a viable alternative. Freecad is such a struggle for me to use; I used DesignSpark for 3d modeling and conceptualizing large builds, and I lost it when I migrated to Linux (wasn’t much of a loss, they were only making the free version worse). Freecad’s workflow is so foreign to me, and Blender doesn’t seem great for 3d modeling practical parts.

I think its intended to line up with the iOS and iPadOS naming scheme. They pooped out an update earlier this year to bring all three OS’s up to the same version number as well.

When I was growing up, my dad had some sort of email server or ftp server or something for the university he taught at. I have childhood memories of trying in odin@[university].edu. My first fileserver at home was just called The Vault, but when I put together a dedicated VM server, it became Odin. The long term VMs that I host on there are named after some of the lesser Nordic gods. I also have a Pi running NginX for reverse proxy passing, so after the latest season finale of Loki, that seemed like an appropriate name for that device.