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A UI which seems a bit more in-line w/ contemporary expectations is Dune 3D:

https://dune3d.org/

which I find a little less confusing than the traditional 3D CAD packages I've tried (and failed to learn) --- at least for Dune 3D I've made it through the tutorial successfully.

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Dune 3D is OK — and is after all dependent on Solvespace.
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>> The Solvespace UI is a long, long way from being the sort of UI a contemporary kid has any kind of comfort with...

Respectfully, I disagree. Even adults have used the word "fun" to describe using solvespace. But I don't actually have feedback from kids, hence the question to OP.

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Don't get me wrong, I think Solvespace is really important and I am glad you are keeping it ticking over, but it is the least fun UI I have ever encountered, I'm afraid (kind of obtuse on a trackpad too)

Not saying any of this is easy — Shapr3D on an iPad, expensive and marketed on its extraordinary usability, is just utterly perplexing!

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>> kind of obtuse on a trackpad too

Oh, I actually hate trying to use solvespace with anything other than a 3-button mouse. Unfortunate because the web version can actually run on my phone but is unusable in practice.

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I guess this is, sort of, the filter through which I experience the frustrations; it may be magnifying them even.

I've not used a three button mouse in thirty years. Probably only used a mouse for a dozen hours in the last 15 years.

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