Oh, AutoDesk…you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.
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.
Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 11 months 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.de 11 months 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.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
equidamoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Freecad is… rough. But, it has python API, and that’s what I ended up using for almost all my stuff (there also was a period of using cadquery, but installing it is a horrible pain, so I gve up).
Also using onshape every now and then, but many things are just too annoying to do with a gui.
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
They exist, but you have to look harder. And they often cost a lot more too