Oh, AutoDesk…you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.

  • Ace0fBlades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I greatly miss the ability to simply purchase a program on a disk for a given year and just have access to that tool.

    • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      otoh you have stuff like FreeCAD or OpenSCAD completely free and usable AND you could modify it as you please.

      Back then FOSS CAD was barely usable.

      • ByteWelder@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’ve used FreeCAD for a few months for small/medium-sized projects and it crashes way too often. It’s pretty much unusable for me. I only use it for CAM these days and do my CAD with OnShape.

      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think the thing people wish for was a little bit of polish in their open source tools.

        I love kicad, but it used to have some really rough edges in spite of being simpler compared to something like Altium.

          • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            The FOSS stuff can do the job. You just need to tweak these 10 config files because it doesn’t come with sensible defaults. Oh, and it’s built against a different version of those libraries. Better downgrade two and upgrade that third one. Actually, just fork and modify the source. Much easier. What were we trying to do again?

              • snowe@programming.devEnglish
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                1 year ago

                What’s flatpak and why in the world would I need to know about it in order to use a cad program? Do you see why people don’t use this stuff?

                • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  You mean when people just ask someone else instead of heading to the single best information resource that’s ever existed in human history for an immediate answer?

                  No. I don’t see why people do that.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So if you have $1001 in annual revenue, you have to pay $680? So if your business has a running cost of %50, you need to go into the red by $180 to continue running your business?

    Someone over in marketing is an idiot.

    • carbrewr84@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      When I was working as an engineer I used both autocad and revit, autodesk has been a piece of removed company for a long, long time. Their greed knows no limits and unfortunately they have convinced their markets that the cost of working with them is just “the cost of doing business”.

      I’d love to see the day they crash and burn as a company, but I have a feeling that’s just a far fetched dream.