Are you familiar with the watermark they are talking about? How does that express itself; does it show up on models or is it like metadata in a file?
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AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I am on my 7th or 8th year of it. I don’t use it for making money, but use it for making 3D printed things for around the house, then upload them to Thinginverse and Printables for everyone else to use.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t know exactly how it is implemented, but if I had to guess, it is probably just metadata in the file. I know that when I print out the 2D drawings I make, it puts text in the bottom corner with something to the effect of “This was made with the educational version of Solidworks, Not for commercial use” or something like that. I expect something similar if you tried to open a file made on the educational version on the commercial version, there would be something similar on the screen. Not sure though, since I only have the educational version.
VegaLyrae@kbin.social 9 months ago
It's a very sticky watermark. If you open and save a file in educational, the watermark cannot be removed even if you open it in paid commercial version later.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I’ve not heard anything good about 3DEXPERIENCE, I really wanted to get it but after reading what other people have said, I decided not to.
VegaLyrae@kbin.social 9 months ago
I tried it and made a few things for around the house.
It's fine, but it's Invasive, and so cloud connected that I got really fed up with it.
I would pay them the same price for an offline only version.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks for the tip, I use SW at work. This would work out well for me.
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I use CATIA at work, and it’s funny how both programs are made by Dassault, but have such different intefaces.
callcc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Probably bought by Dassaut and developed by different teams
shitescalates@midwest.social 9 months ago
I’ve searched for this and couldn’t find it. They must hide it well. How well does it run on Linux?
mrbaby@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Probably not well. Its drm does some weird shit where it (3dexperience) runs in the background and then launches a web page that has you log in and you launch and update from the browser. I think there’s a way to directly launch it with a shortcut but all in all it just does so much weird shit that i haven’t even tried.
I miss Autodesk Inventor but i can’t remotely justify the price for dicking around with personal projects and solidworks for makers is a pretty damn good deal. Plus SW seems like the industry standard so looks better on a resume? I’m a programmer so it doesn’t really matter but meh.
OnShape might be okay, probably runs just fine on Linux, but i hate that its cloud based. I just want to own my software goddamnit.
One day we’ll have a foss parametric non-destructive blender-level cad suite. FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are neat but not really what I’m looking for.
I’m ranting again…
shitescalates@midwest.social 9 months ago
Can’t say you own any 3d cad software anymore anyway since they all went to subscription only about 10 years ago.
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sorry, I don’t have the slightest idea.
canthidium@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh wow, thanks for this! I’m a veteran and $20 a year is awesome! I do the same, mostly just making things around the house. I don’t really upload them though, because most things I make are super custom to my needs.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
If that’s the case, you don’t need to be paying for Fusion. You should qualify for the free, personal license.
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, I make things for me and family, but you’d be surprised at how many other people would be interested in it as well. I certainly was. I looked at my Thingiverse analytics, and I’ve had 10’s of thousands of downloads of my things. I know those don’t directly translate into prints, but I was shocked at how many people downloaded my designs that were originally just for me to organize my sandpaper, or sift sand or hold my CNC collets and wrenches. . .