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What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
One of my clients has recently switched to BricsCAD. Cheaper than AutoDesk but not super cheap.
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
It depends what you want to do. If you want to make stuff for 3D printing, it will be great. If you want to machine things on a CNC mill, you will also need CAM software which can be expensive. madCAM ($1K to own it) works well, but it is unclear whether that has been abandoned.
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
Solidworks is good but not affordable.
Just a reminder that Autodesk is the oracle/adobe of the CAD world, and this is just the way they always operated.
I am surprised VMWare didn’t do the same thing tbh.
I switched to Parallels because of some shenanigans a while back...
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
FreeCAD. Free and open source. I use it all of the time for 3D modelling and 3D printing. One of my clients has recently switched to BricsCAD. Cheaper than AutoDesk but not super cheap.
This reminds me of a café in Lausanne that started operations by selling lifetime, three-coffees-per-month subscriptions, and then after a year or so "management changed" and they annulled all subscriptions:D
I mean often “management changed” often means the company went out of business and someone bought it and is giving it a go themselves. This is a bit deceptive, but it’s really a new company often.