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My OP was not intended to suggest that Blender and SolidWorks were somehow competitors, they fullfill very different roles, just like Word and Vim, the point wa
by knolan 6y ago
My OP was not intended to suggest that Blender and SolidWorks were somehow competitors, they fullfill very different roles, just like Word and Vim, the point was about the janky nature of SolidWords and also a lot of ribbon infested CAD packages.
The cynic in me would think they deliberately obfuscate their software to sell training courses when in reality it’s more likely that development resources are constrained and the audience for the tools is small.
- TylerE 6y agoHardly. They do a billion dollars a year in revenue.
- auxym 6y agoI think it's just the typical feature-based, got to have a reason to sell customers the new version, development. Every new version (multiple thousands upgrade cost) brings a bunch of new features I don't use and make the software bloated. Yet, some bugs that annoy me daily are still not fixed multiple years later. That's what makes SW feel janky to me. From what I heard, the original makers of SW left Dassault and founded OnShape which, despite being browser based, feels faster and less bloated. Or at least, so I've heard from people who've tried it out.