BRL-CAD

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with BRL-CAD, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Interface is old-school and programming-like, so most users won't consider it2024-11-18
The interface is clunky, making the program awkward to use.2024-05-21
Collection of 400 command tools is hard for regular CAD users to use and understand2022-11-12
Achingly slow and riddled with bugs, making daily work miserable2022-08-16
Text-based coordinate entry feels unintuitive and hard to learn compared to visual CAD2015-06-30
Cannot print a drawing normally; requires multiple tools and conversion steps2010-09-11