If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
@tj FreeCAD has come a very long way in the last couple of releases, I'm very impressed. Definitely what I'll be using for future work.
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
@tj real good advise and i have to agree that FreeCad and OpenScad are incredible pieces of Software. But both have a huge learning curve in contrast to Fusion 360 and Onshape with make them extremely hard to learn for people without engineering background. Also the bugs and inconsistencies in FreeCad are extremely annoying.
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
@tj @foosel I totally agree and would like to mention #solvespace as a third addition to the tools section. Often overlooked but still thriving
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
@tj Is there an open-source CAD program that has a GUI? That would help a lot, especially for kids transitioning from TinkerCAD to Fusion 360.
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
The conglomerate I work for has tens of thousands of Autodesk licences. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Good to know though
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
@tj The principals, without the expletive, apply to anything where you are investing your time in something . You simply need to ask, will I be able to continue work without the provider/service. If the answer is "no", then adopting an open source alternative is a serious contender.
For the institution/government/company where the person who has "tens of thousands of Autodesk licenses" -- investing in an in-house development team to take an open source to a higher level is money well spent.
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@Gustodon @tj Besides FreeCAD, which I use, for folks looking for the TinkerCAD experience, there is CaDoodle CAD, which is open source and explicitly intended to replace the TinkerCAD experience. I haven't used it because FreeCAD is more my style, but I've heard good things about it from others.
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If you use CAD software and care about properly owning what you make:
Do not use Onshape.
Do not use Fusion360 (or any other Autodesk product).
Using these tools binds your work to someone else's profit motives. You are a temporary guest in their house. They *will* fuck you over the moment they decide they can make more money by doing so.
#freecad and #openscad are incredible tools. Learn them and become free.
@tj do you have a story I can share around in my org about the specifics?
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