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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    2 years 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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      2 years 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.worldEnglish
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        2 years 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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            2 years 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?