I hated freecad. It would constantly crash, forcing me to save my progress every minute, and Using the app at all was a task in itself because of its frustrating layout. I would get stuck on what should be an easy task for hours and be unable to accomplish what I wanted. Creating the item from the tutorial was annoying to me and took much longer than it should have, mostly because I mixed up certain tools when I was first using the app; for example, I failed to realize that the horizontal and vertical constraint were different from the distance constraint and was using the wrong feature for what I needed to do (changing the distance of a shape). I found the youtube tutorial video to be pretty helpful because it made it easier to eventually identify stupid mistakes like this. Making the cord holder was extremely frustrating and eventually I gave up after like the third time the app crashed, and realizing I had no idea how to create hooks that could go onto a desk. For the third part, I made a box with a hole through it and a screw that would fit in the hole.
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