Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
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Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
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Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#2I'd rather see firms chuck some money to perhaps Blender or something to get a viable alternative developed than send angry letters to the featureless monolith that is Autodesk. They're the market leader. They don't care. They already have firms by the metaphorical balls with astronomical licensing fees and know people will pay because they set the standards across many industries.
In architecture, anyway, the problem seems to be that generally BIM programs just suck. Nobody I know likes Revit, although they admit it's powerful, and a lot of firms think Archicad isn't industry ready.
I've used Archicad myself, at least, and it's very painful. The workflow flows poorly, and there's not much consideration for what people are going to be doing a lot of, so you're constantly wrestling with it to get the function you want. It's got a lot of good and interesting ideas in it, but sadly they're just hampered by feeling bolted on and not well integrated.
Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#3I'd rather see firms chuck some money to perhaps Blender or something to get a viable alternative developed than send angry letters to the featureless monolith that is Autodesk. They're the market leader. They don't care. They already have firms by the metaphorical balls with astronomical licensing fees and know people will pay because they set the standards across many industries. In architecture, anyway, the proble…
Blender is really nice but it isn't super easy to always get non-destructive/permanent modifications (but there might always be a way).
Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
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Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#6I'd rather see firms chuck some money to perhaps Blender or something to get a viable alternative developed than send angry letters to the featureless monolith that is Autodesk. They're the market leader. They don't care. They already have firms by the metaphorical balls with astronomical licensing fees and know people will pay because they set the standards across many industries. In architecture, anyway, the proble…
Try Vectorworks. They had BIM years before Revit was a twinkle in AutoCAD's eye. Perhaps they fell behind for a few years but now but now more than viable and so much more stable code.
Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#7Autodesk's behavior has long been acknowledged as despicable, marked by such offenses as attacking instructional fan sites and managing to get some ignorant judge to rule in favor of their rip-off licensing scam. They claim that when you buy their software, you only buy a "perpetual license"; so if you find that you can't use the software, you can't sell it to someone else. If you tried to sell an unopened, new copy of their software on eBay, for example, their lawyers would threaten eBay and have your auction canceled. Yes, they did this for ONE copy.
Can't innovate anymore? Just behave like assholes.
Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#8I'd rather see firms chuck some money to perhaps Blender or something to get a viable alternative developed than send angry letters to the featureless monolith that is Autodesk. They're the market leader. They don't care. They already have firms by the metaphorical balls with astronomical licensing fees and know people will pay because they set the standards across many industries. In architecture, anyway, the proble…
Supporting FreeCAD [1] would be IMHO the way to go as they already provide both interfaces to BIM [2] and Blender [3].
Would be great if there were more architects or structural engineering companies that invest in open source. Maybe then universities would follow instead on building on education licenses that after graduation become very expensive.
[1] https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Donate
[2] https://wiki.freecadweb.org/BIM_Workbench
[3] https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorial_Render_with_Blender
Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#9Autodesk's behavior has long been acknowledged as despicable, marked by such offenses as attacking instructional fan sites and managing to get some ignorant judge to rule in favor of their rip-off licensing scam. They claim that when you buy their software, you only buy a "perpetual license"; so if you find that you can't use the software, you can't sell it to someone else. If you tried to sell an unopened, new copy…
Really? Software sold in a box, can't resell it? Tell me more.
Re: Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)
#10Adobe should come up with a competitor. QuarkXpress abused its customers badly with high license fees and hardware dongles and all sorts of stuff like that. When Adobe came out with InDesign, everyone switched and Quark lost its dominant position. Same thing happened to Microsoft in Mobile. People were so sick of their monopolistic behavior that they lost totally to Apple and Google when they came out with a competitive product.