My attempts to draw anything in Fusion 360 caused me to try and use FreeCAD. There is a tutorial but after drawing a rectangle in X-Y view, it says to click on a line of the rectangle to set constraints. Click or double-click makes no difference, it starts making another rectangle. Is there any CAD program that is obvious to use for drawing simple parts?
Constraints are not 100% required, although they can help with editing to make sure things stay in position relative to where you want them in relation to other parts. But there are a lot of subtleties. If you drew a rectangle, you still had the rectangle tool selected, and need to hit escape to get back to the pointer. It's such a common action the guy doing the video might not have mentioned it.
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