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

  • 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?