Common Complaints

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This page functions as repository for ad nauseum responses to common complaints against open source projects.

Why certain features are not present
There are many reasons for why you aren't seeing certain features in FreeCAD that you'd like to see. See the following reasons why:
 * 1) It's astounding to think of but a primary reason is that no one in the world has coded it yet for free and has submit it for review
 * 2) It's in the bug tracker as a feature request but (see reason 1)
 * 3) It's in the bug tracker as a feature request and assigned to someone and they haven't gotten around to it because It's done when it's done
 * 4) It's done when it's done.
 * 5) The FreeCAD community rejected integrating said feature.

Fear of Instability
Because of the long development cycle that FreeCAD uses, many bugs are often already fixed in the development version. Users are concerned about using development versions in general. The concern that using a development version is valid but it still may be in ones interest to try. Here are examples of why and how to do so:

Functional Assembly Module Please

 * 1) It's done when it's done.
 * 2) Explain the obstacles in the way of Assembly WB
 * 3) Explain the efforts of Assmebly2 and how it is stalled
 * 4) Explain the experimental effort of Assembly3

Other FAQs

 * What is the difference between FreeCAD v0.16.6707 and v0.16.6712? See https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26626&p=212313#p212195