Is there anything as easy to use as Fusion 360 which is possible to install and use totally offline? Something which you can own?
Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
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Seimens Solid Edge is free and fantastic https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/free-software/overview/
Does that include CAM? Much of what I pay for is the CAM functionality.
I believe the student personal version has all functionality, but that may have changed.
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I have this picture in my head of you holding a worklight above an open CPU case while your dad works to connect the drive.
Why not use a decent headlamp? So much more comfortable.
There was a time where lights were too big to be on headlamps. Many of us of a certain vintage grew up holding what were essentially metal cages around regular household light bulbs attached to a power cable for our parents and grandparents while they worked on carburetors or whatnot.
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I saw this described as the conflict between business and industry. Industry is making things. Books, food, video games, computers, petrochemicals. Business is getting money. Business strangles industry to death all the time. The only thing we can do about it is make things that can't possibly be monetized. This is relatively easy in software - but still hard. Linux succeeded, and nobody pays for Solaris. Git succeed…
> One day there will be an open source equivalent to Autodesk and nobody will make money selling Autodesk equivalents The biggest trouble (after making a CAD software itself) is to keep it in line with a current regulations. I'm not familiar if A. even does that, but some regional alternatives are making money not only on the SW itself, but by providing services related to be in the compliance of regulations.
Do you mean that CAD software itself has to comply with certain regulations? Or that it helps engineers comply with regulations regarding their designs?
Not a professional CAD user myself, but as a hobbyist with an interest in this space I've never heard of the former case, so I'm curious.
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#196Just a reminder that Autodesk is the oracle/adobe of the CAD world, and this is just the way they always operated.
I just got into 3d printing as a hobby a few months ago and this has been my take away from their offerings as well. I use TinkerCad for most things; I'd like to get into Fusion 360, but I'd be a little afraid of learning a bunch about that software only to have more and more of it become out of reach behind licenses that don't make a lot of sense to buy as a hobbyist. That said, the products look great and seem to h…
The skills in these tools are transferrable. The designs not so much. Basically There's a way of thinking about and solving problems in these tools which is common, same as solving things in programming languages is similar but different and maybe different names. Annotations, lambdas, record types, functors they all have different names in different languages and commas and parens are used differently but when you learn one you get better at learning others. Another analogy is that it's a lot easier to learn to ski or snowboard when you can do the other one already than when you can do neither (even if you feel worse cause you know you can do better).
The hard part is if you build real ip up in these things that you lose when you get rug pulled. Or have no way to backup. F360 let's you export more complicated formats. But they all let you make stls which are a pita to reverse int drawings but you can.
It took me 50 hours to learn solid works, my first tool so I could kinda make what I wanted. Inventor took 3 to get used to. F360 an hour. The cost goes down.
Pick one your friends are using and design things.
Try openscad if you're more of a mathematical mind. Try blender if your an artist. Those are different yet still you're making things.
If you mentioned what you wanted to make I can point you further. There's many options.
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I just got into 3d printing as a hobby a few months ago and this has been my take away from their offerings as well. I use TinkerCad for most things; I'd like to get into Fusion 360, but I'd be a little afraid of learning a bunch about that software only to have more and more of it become out of reach behind licenses that don't make a lot of sense to buy as a hobbyist. That said, the products look great and seem to h…
Not to condone any illegal activity from my point, but my personal approach to deceptive and consumer hostile business practices is using the software but not paying for it.
I used to think that way regarding Windows/VB6/Photoshop/Lightroom. It's like expressing your hatred for the Ku Klux Klan by signing up for their newsletter. That'll show them!
Looking back, it would have been more productive to develop proficiency in and give money/support to any underdog competitor.
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I try to use freeCAD whenever possible. I'm not a professional level, and assemblies are a bit scary, but its overall a nice tool. Just the other day I cloned one of these[1] in freecad using the image importing and scaling, quickly made a trace, added a pad and some chamfers, and had it on the 3d printer in about 25 minutes. I'd love if FreeCAD got a benefactor like you mention. [1] https://www.amazon.com/TILISMA-Bo…
I tried FreeCAD but all versions crash within minutes of using it, making it unusable.
Have you checked the logs or tried submitting the issue? If you haven't they won't probably even know about such an issue and this won't be fixed.
To put this in context if you would be paying for this, and have such a problem, you would for sure either submit the issue or cancel/refund the license and maybe put some feedback somewhere.
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Yet...
Fun joke aside, I don't think that's really possible anymore since there are high quality opensource alternatives such as KVM (for server deployments) and Virtual Box (for end users). But in the CAD field, Autodesk is the clear winner here with no good alternatives, even you count in FreeCAD. It makes business sense for Autodesk to keep grabbing as much money as they could, so they can: 1) earn money, 2) add more fea…
> But in the CAD field, Autodesk is the clear winner here with no good alternatives
I’m an EE who only needs to use 2D CAD occasionally. Back in the early days I got myself a copy of AutoCAD LT (my company used AutoCAD so it made sense to learn the same tools that out draftsmen used). I developed strong muscle memory for the AutoCAD commands, and it’s not really worth my time and hassle to learn a new tool given how infrequently I need it. Some years back I stumbled on DraftSight which was free / low-cost and was a UI clone of AutoCAD. They eventually switched to a subscription model. I’m not a big fan of SASS, but when it’s not an exorbitant price, needed for my professional work, and the software generates industry standard files that I can use with other packages if I want to get off the SASS merry-go-round, I’m not strongly opposed, either.
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#200Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
I've been learning it thanks to this amazing tutorial series by a guy named mangojelly. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuyJLVUNtc0UszswD0oD... freeCAD had a critical issue in topological naming (they are working on a fix as we speak and it's going to be out "soon"), and it's hideously clunky. Basically, when you resize a sketch and that causes more faces to be created it makes all your other stuff go crazy.…
Do you know if any of the official FreeCAD tutorials go through using data planes instead of sketch on face?