The Death of Autodesk Fusion 360 Version HistoryYou have a pile of vertices/edges/faces, you do some editing, and you have a different pile of verticies/edges/faces. There's some stuff doable with non-destructive modifiers, but they're for very limited specific tasks. Since blender is so easy to write add-ons for with their Python API, I'd be surprised if there wasn't already community effort around this. B) Your big corporate customers will independently finance the development of those open source platforms. Actually, blender supports many more basic objects than meshes, it's just that the basic shape must be convertible to a mesh eventually. Which is also the case in any other software, because GPUs only support mesh rasterization. On re-reading it, I think it is less clear than when I originally read it. Regardless, it's a bit of hair-splitting because he's clearly been using the free license for at least a portion of that time. Oh, and that's assuming it's a complaint about younger generations ruining things. Yes there is plenty of entitlement in software, mostly from folks who have never run a software business. Queue video-game enthusiasts that think the $60 price of the game somehow facilitates providing content updates, bug fixes, and hosting multiplayer servers until the heat death of the universe. I'm not a big fan of Autodesk for various reasons, but if you are a hobbyist, there are affordable alternatives. If they need the more advanced features Autodesk offers versus competition, you can pay for them. If you've been using a product for 30 years and never paid for it, it's really hard to complain. Yes, cloud bullshit, which is currently running the world based on the size and scale of the cloud providers. Yeah, because the people that wrote the software aren't worthy to be paid for their skills. You still pay for a library membership, or like you said tax dollars for community center. Free bikes on craigslist almost 90% of times needs investment. For anyone reading this who needs a bike, people sometimes give away free bikes on Craigslist. But they created an expectation by providing free features for years. The people are not talking about free software as their right. You don't raise your prices because you had to because, well, cloud. You might also argue that you move to cloud to reduce marginal costs of distribution, but that's arguable. For years companies tried to squeeze the enterprise customers more so that they can fund hobbies for others. And when finally they can't anymore and decide to charge for SOME FEATURES, while still keeping a freemium tier alive, everyone starts talking about the big evil corp. "Bikes are physical but software is not, therefore it doesn't cost significant resources and manpower to be used". F360 is not that- if Autodesk somehow magically knew whether an individual was willing to pay $500/year for a subscription, there'd be little reason for Autodesk not to give everybody who can't afford it F360 for free. I guess they are lucky that people can't just do what they did with Photoshop in the 90s; yay for the cloud. Software subscriptions for hobbies are crazy, because who knows if I'm even going to use it ever again, yet all my effort is lost if I'm not paying them. In my opinion, out of all of the CAD you listed, Solvespace is by far the best to teach someone starting out. The interface is not absolutely overwhelming unlike every other option, it is super fast and lightweight so you don't get frustrated, unlike every other option, and it is pretty amazingly reliable. FreeCAD lets you do parametric modelling. Well as seeing all of your changes while you're making them. It's an amazingly capable software, and you don't have to fear it will one day be bought by autodesk and ruined. Support free/open projects like FreeCAD. Let's boost it to Blender levels of incredible. Solidworks parent company just did the same thing with their 2D Autocad alternative DraftSight.
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