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The hardware is cheap nowadays compared to the software. Any sub-1k dollar/euro PC will handle most things one would use Autocad for. It's the software that is expensive.
Not if you’re doing 3D. ISV certified laptop with GPU and enough RAM is going to be $2,000
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BricsCAD is pretty popular. https://www.bricsys.com/en-us/bricscad/
Wow, $600.
I have been developing on Bricscad for years and it is far faster with a much less buggy API as well. Bootup times smash AutoCADs :)
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Isn't that like people wishing for a more lightweight Excel not realizing the "80% of people only 20% of the features" is true but it's not the same 20%? Could you even come up with a financially viable lightweight enough Autocad competitor?
"financially viable lightweight enough" That's the catch, I think. The market is not so large for 3D modeling tools. The second hurdle is the ridiculous amount of inertia DWG has in the AEC industry. Any solution that would topple Autocad would need to likely provide DWG and/or Revit interoperability to even have a shot at the market. There are no good options for Revit at the moment so, that's a deep vendor lock in.…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hardware is cheap nowadays compared to the software. Any sub-1k dollar/euro PC will handle most things one would use Autocad for. It's the software that is expensive.
Not if you’re doing 3D. ISV certified laptop with GPU and enough RAM is going to be $2,000
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hardware is cheap nowadays compared to the software. Any sub-1k dollar/euro PC will handle most things one would use Autocad for. It's the software that is expensive.
Not if you’re doing 3D. ISV certified laptop with GPU and enough RAM is going to be $2,000
For a lot of the workloads a sub 1000 PC is enough (I'm in the AEC software industry and am quite familiar what we are talking about).
Take into account that most software in the domain we are discussing is decades old. Some things would work just fine on the lowliest PC you can buy from the cheapest vendor. And yes, sometimes even the most beefiest machine is not enough.
I hate webapps. What will happen to scripting, application automation? Just have a look, how dumbed down most webapps are when compared to their desktop parts or similare programs as desktop version.
I hate desktop applications. They take a long time to install, they have local file storage that requires me to spend time backing the data up, they eat up disk space on my computer system, they aren't accessible to me if I need to use another computer system, they need to be manually patched and updated, and if I am dependent on them they could restrict my choice of operating system on my desktop. Web apps aren't pe…
I like to have my stuff on my computer.
Maybe some day you'll be able to set FACETRES above 10, or export your NURBS to something other than ACIS.
"export your NURBS to something other" NURBS does not define a single mathematical entity, like a Bezier curve for example does. You can't convert NURBS trivially from one kernel to another. If the implementation is not exactly the same, the transform is unlikely to be mathematically exactly equivalent.