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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            11 months 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?

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                11 months 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?

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                  11 months 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.

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        11 months 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.