I'm sorry for bashing you, FreeCAD. My opinion has flipped after 1.1

I have been playing with FreeCAD since before 1.0, but I couldn't say when I started. I hated it. I come from Siemens NX, and the workflow made no sense at all. It couldn't do what I considered simple tasks I use all the time for work. I want to make one base sketch that I can make multiple features or bodies from, it was super frustrating not to be able to do that. Arrays didn't make sense. I needed to 3D print a replacement part for something of my daughter's, and didn't have my work computer with me. It took me 2 hours to make this part that would have taken about 10 minutes in NX. Or even SolidWorks (which I am also not a fan of, but used it professionally for several years). I could have driven to my office, picked up my laptop, come home, and designed it faster than FreeCAD 1.0.

I tried 1.1 yesterday after watching some videos on it recently, and most of the major problems I had with it seem to have been addressed. Sketching was better, making features from those sketches was better, things just seemed to make more sense. I made another rather simple part in about half an hour, and I think that time will come down as I get more familiar with it. I wish I had my SpacePilot Pro hooked up for it, it's been a while since I've had to rotate things with my mouse. But I have previously had the 3DConnexion driver working with FreeCAD, so I'll be doing that in the future. Fun fact, you can also do anaglyph 3D with FreeCAD if you want do design with those old-school red/blue glasses.

Anyway, here's what I made. It's a base for a Lundby doll house chair for my mom. Originally, it would have had an Eames style base, with a central metal post and legs coming out like a desk chair. I made a tulip-style base, and inserted a metal pin down the center for stability. It was super easy to design and modify in 1.1, with one main sketch revolved. Then, I created a second sketch for the angled top, extruded that, and did a boolean subtract. Super easy, and actually pretty fun to make. Completely different from my previous FreeCAD experiences. I will be coming back to it again, for sure.

Here's what the original would have looked. She doesn't have the footstool, so I figured I could take some design liberties. The Eames's work is fantastic, so is Eero Saarinen's. Why not mash them up?