The future of AutoCAD

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Post by sergioramos » Wed, May 09, 2018, 4:47 PM UTC

The future of AutoCAD
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Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by Jamerson » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by chx » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

Jamerson wrote: post #2

AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.

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?

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by casylum » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

Jamerson wrote: post #2

AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.

BricsCAD is pretty popular.

https://www.bricsys.com/en-us/bricscad/

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by f2n » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

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Whelp, I guess I didn't care that much.

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by Jamerson » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

chx wrote: post #3

Jamerson wrote: post #2

AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.

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?

It would be a long shot. But until something changes, Autodesk is just going to keep layering tools, buttons, and menus on top of each other. It's such a rubber band ball now, they would have to start over to make something efficient. But there's no real competition, because even though it's incredibly cludgy, it will work if you learn it's labyrinth.

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by haberman » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:14 PM UTC

SketchUp has been running in the brower for the better part of a year (or at least their free version does): https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000315

I wasn't able to find any technical information about whether SketchUp takes the same approach of compiling their desktop code to Emscripten.

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by haberman » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

Jamerson wrote: post #2

AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.

What about SketchUp? I'm very new to 3d modeling, but I've been modeling my house over the last week or so in SketchUp and it seems pretty nice.

Are 2d CAD and 3d modeling different kettles of fish?

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by LeoPanthera » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:23 PM UTC

Jamerson wrote: post #2

AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.

Someone taught me recently that if you type " vs " into Google, all the suggested autocompletes will tell you what the competition is.

It works amazingly well.

Re: The future of AutoCAD

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Post by phkahler » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

haberman wrote: post #7

SketchUp has been running in the brower for the better part of a year (or at least their free version does): https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000315 I wasn't able to find any technical information about whether SketchUp takes the same approach of compiling their desktop code to Emscripten.

SketchUp is very cool, but it does not have a constraint solver. If you want to know what that means, try SolveSpace for an easy-to-use CAD program that has one. When you reach its limits switch to FreeCAD which is far more feature complete but harder to learn and use (IMHO).