How Will You Get Is Fusion 360 Free For Hobbyists Definition Of Woke Ideology?I've been using Fusion 360 for about a year for hobbyist projects. It's been intuitive, fresh, very capable and the learning curve was long-ish but not steep. A spacemouse makes it an absolute joy to work with once you get your motor skills adapted. I've used it many dozens of times for 3D printed parts which I expect will continue to work just fine to export STL files. I particularly disliked having to upload files to their 'cloud' for conversion between formats or even for slicing objects. Not really what I'm comfortable doing with client's assets. Never used it myself but there are some CAD tool addons you can try -- also they seem to have incorporated some 'hard modeling' features which, I would imagine, aren't that far from the CADiverse. I wonder how much work it would be to turn it into a proper CAD tool. I would donate a significant chunk of my paycheck to Blender if it supported parametric CAD.
You have a pile of vertices/edges/faces, you do some editing, and you have a different pile of verticies/edges/faces. There's some stuff doable with non-destructive modifiers, but they're for very limited specific tasks. Since blender is so easy to write add-ons for with their Python API, I'd be surprised if there wasn't already community effort around this. So the current Blender modeling options are isomorphic to those of a BREP modeller. Actually, blender supports many more basic objects than meshes, it's just that the basic shape must be convertible to a mesh eventually. Which is also the case in any other software, because GPUs only support mesh rasterization. On re-reading it, I think it is less clear than when I originally read it. Regardless, it's a bit of hair-splitting because he's clearly been using the free license for at least a portion of that time. The guy in the original story has been using Autodesk for 30+ years and is currently on a "Free" license. I guess the generation which refuses to pay for other's work is Generation X? As a Gen Xer, I don't appreciate that generalization. Same here, for some strange reason we have a generation that feels entitled to be paid for their work, while actively refusing to pay for the work of others. But he also mentions free licenses which are indeed "free". He also says in the next line "Are any other free users..." which means he's on a free license now. Yes, cloud bullshit, which is currently running the world based on the size and scale of the cloud providers. Yeah, because the people that wrote the software aren't worthy to be paid for their skills. All of those have incremental costs to reproduce. The variable cost for software is practically zero. The hidden subsidies of advertising monetization. Data collection have done an excellent job of this. In Autodesk's case, it was enterprise customers paying tens and hundreds of thousands for license seats, so that private parties could use it for free. The thing is there's some tools and technologies that humanity deserves to offer itself (a.k.a to develop a high quality OSS offering). Don't get scared by this statement, just bare with me for a second and assume it to be true. Humanity has offered itself OSS/copyfree/patent free technological gifts like an OS kernel, an SCM tool, an electronic CAD software, ML/data science packages, the wheel, etc. I posit that we need to produce long lasting artifacts that anyone, anywhere, can use and reproduce, especially if those artifacts are core to reaching our current technological level. This way, 50, 100 or 1000 years from now, we'll all have been the better for it. Your implication here seems to be that Autodesk can't possibly be doing something bad because they have "families to feed", get a grip man. The idea that a billion dollar company is somehow financially equivalent to a mom-and-pop grocery store just a few lost purchases away from ruin and going through hard times is insane. Pe
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