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Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has any tried SolveSpace? https://solvespace.com/index.pl I'm considering digging in.
They also provide the geometric constraint solving algorithm separately as a library. Incredible.
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I am surprised VMWare didn’t do the same thing tbh.
Didn't they change things so VMWare Fusion replaced the VMWare Player? I switched to Parallels because of some shenanigans a while back...
~~I know that LTT had such a license and made it a point to bring it up every time VMWare called them to turn it into a subscription.~~
I remembered wrong. :(
I'm on about year 7 of my supposedly 4 year Education License, so I get all of their product suite for free (or most of it...all the good stuff at least.)
I'm over 15 years out of University, and I never took any course that required an Autodesk product while I was there.
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That wasn't enough - I had to shut down the X server to install the driver properly. I make software that runs on Linux exclusively for a living. I know very well how Linux works. It is still necessary to run stuff from the terminal from time to time. Even on user-friendly distros like Steam OS - some games will require some tinkering - but they run flawlessly on Windows. And another thing. I could not get Thunderbol…
> I had to shut down the X server to install the driver properly. And you would have to reboot on Windows. Rebooting would also restart your display server on Linux, so that is at worst equally as painful as Windows. > I know very well how Linux works. It is still necessary to run stuff from the terminal from time to time. Even on user-friendly distros like Steam OS - some games will require some tinkering - but they…
Also, it doesn't really matter if 80-90% of games work if the one that you really want to play - doesn't. And some very popular games still don't work on Linux.
Yes - the USB-C standard is a mess. A USB-C port that supports Thunderbolt looks identical to any other USB-C port. In my case, I was trying to use a PCI-E enclosure, and it just refused to work on Linux - no matter what I tried.
I reckon industry of cracked/hacked both software and hardware will bloom in future.
It's not wise to use cracked software for business. Someone might talk, and your office could get raided by the cops. Yes - that happens in places like Eastern Europe too - some people that I know found this out the hard way.
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Sorry if I am missing something obvious, but the 10 editable files hasn't bothered me (very) much yet. Am I not using it as much? I'm I too inexperienced to notice other features that were previously there?
Perhaps the latter. Certain types of screw convolving are essential to a number of my parts. That feature is mostly now missing from the free version, though my existing files with it can change the parameters (though not add additional). The 10 editable thing is just weird. It’s like having n light switches in your house and only 10 can be on at any given time (mechanically interlocked), but in exchange you get free…
I agree on the 10 editable limit being idiotic as an incentive. They also have a quick button to flip it on and off in the sidebar. Like in your 10 switches example if you can activate any switch from anywhere in the house.
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.
I love Rhino ( https://www.rhino3d.com/); it's a pleasure to use. It's not parametric like SolidWorks, but you own it for $1K, there's a very helpful community, the company (McNeel) is great, they regularly improve the features (recently added SubD), and it's much easier to learn than SW. 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 CN…
Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has any tried SolveSpace? https://solvespace.com/index.pl I'm considering digging in.
It’s very lightweight and minimalistic, but it’s not the easiest to use and very bare bones. I often have to find new ways of building things to account for the lack of functions, such as filleting an edge. In a way it’s a good thing because it’s hard to over complicate a design with unnecessary features, which I tend to do, but my designs in solvespace aren’t as nice or pretty and everything takes longer than inventor or fusion, but it takes half a second to boot up, I love the UI, and I really don’t need a complicated CAD tool for the vast majority of my projects.
The other caveat is that like any FOSS CAD tool it’s not totally stable and certain actions may get you into a bad state and possibly crash the program, but eventually you get used to it and can work around them (so far as I’ve seen).
If you’re just doing simple hobby projects, I’d say it’s worth trying out but it does take a little time to get used to. For professional endeavors it’s probably not gonna do the job.
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Didn't they change things so VMWare Fusion replaced the VMWare Player? I switched to Parallels because of some shenanigans a while back...
~~They dropped the lifetime licensing but they didn’t force people into subscription.~~ ~~I know that LTT had such a license and made it a point to bring it up every time VMWare called them to turn it into a subscription.~~ I remembered wrong. :(
EDIT: Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30113513
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That wasn't enough - I had to shut down the X server to install the driver properly. I make software that runs on Linux exclusively for a living. I know very well how Linux works. It is still necessary to run stuff from the terminal from time to time. Even on user-friendly distros like Steam OS - some games will require some tinkering - but they run flawlessly on Windows. And another thing. I could not get Thunderbol…
> I had to shut down the X server to install the driver properly. And you would have to reboot on Windows. Rebooting would also restart your display server on Linux, so that is at worst equally as painful as Windows. > I know very well how Linux works. It is still necessary to run stuff from the terminal from time to time. Even on user-friendly distros like Steam OS - some games will require some tinkering - but they…