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> If only FreeCAD had a UI as approachable as Fusion 360... You could pay a random professional software company to improve the FreeCAD UI.

adventured 6y ago
> You could pay a random professional software company to improve the FreeCAD UI. Software develoment is of course quite difficult. Good software development is that much harder. Sure, you could pay a company to try to improve the FreeCAD UI - you could pay a company a lot of money to botch the effort, deliver a mediocre outcome, take a zillion years to finish, go far over budget it while still getting a mediocre outcome, and so on. If it's anything other than a good outcome, most likely you just stole resources from the rest of your business and now you're worse off. The odds are against you. It's one of the many reasons people stick with their 75% or 85% good enough present solution. They're busy running their own business. Trying to manage a software development endeavor on the side is a huge tax (that much more so if you're not in the software business).
- taneq 6y ago
  > It's one of the many reasons people stick with their 75% or 85% good enough present solution. 100% this. That's one thing many people don't realise until they run a business - there are so many things which MUST be done, all the time, just to keep the lights on. When you do get a rare gap in those, you're better off developing and improving your core product than indulging yourself by spending resources on some unrelated nice-to-have.
taneq 6y ago
This is true, but in a strange sort of tragedy of the commons, it's much cheaper for me personally to just fork out for Fusion and put up with their cloud shenanigans than it is to pay for improvements to FreeCAD. I'm edging closer to getting the source code and digging in in my spare time, though.

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> If only FreeCAD had a UI as approachable as Fusion 360... You could pay a random professional software company to improve the FreeCAD UI.

by david_draco 6y ago

adventured 6y ago
> You could pay a random professional software company to improve the FreeCAD UI. Software develoment is of course quite difficult. Good software development is that much harder. Sure, you could pay a company to try to improve the FreeCAD UI - you could pay a company a lot of money to botch the effort, deliver a mediocre outcome, take a zillion years to finish, go far over budget it while still getting a mediocre outcome, and so on. If it's anything other than a good outcome, most likely you just stole resources from the rest of your business and now you're worse off. The odds are against you. It's one of the many reasons people stick with their 75% or 85% good enough present solution. They're busy running their own business. Trying to manage a software development endeavor on the side is a huge tax (that much more so if you're not in the software business).
- taneq 6y ago
  > It's one of the many reasons people stick with their 75% or 85% good enough present solution. 100% this. That's one thing many people don't realise until they run a business - there are so many things which MUST be done, all the time, just to keep the lights on. When you do get a rare gap in those, you're better off developing and improving your core product than indulging yourself by spending resources on some unrelated nice-to-have.
taneq 6y ago
This is true, but in a strange sort of tragedy of the commons, it's much cheaper for me personally to just fork out for Fusion and put up with their cloud shenanigans than it is to pay for improvements to FreeCAD. I'm edging closer to getting the source code and digging in in my spare time, though.