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How user-hostile. With all this cloud nonsense the need for effort and funding in open-source CAD is greater than ever.
by blt 4y ago
How user-hostile. With all this cloud nonsense the need for effort and funding in open-source CAD is greater than ever.
- skykooler 4y agoI wish FreeCAD could get the sort of performance and UI overhauls Blender got.
- stavros 4y agoMaybe FreeCAD should start charging businesses for compiled executables.
- blt 4y agoI'm not even a CAD user and I'd contribute to some large-scale fundraiser to improve open-source CAD. Hopefully plenty of mechanical engineering shops will see the value in contributing. Expensive specialist developers are needed, but it'll be worth it.
- alkonaut 4y agoDoes FreeCAD have a foundation that allows for at least a handful of paid enployees to work on it? I think that’s the key to a successful open source desktop app, it has to have long term full time contributors. That requires buy in from industry.
- jimmaswell 4y agoI'm starting to think we need laws saying that functionality that can be done without a cloud subscription must be offered to be allowed to run locally for a reasonable one time payment. No heated seat subscriptions, no photoshop as a service. The future is bleak if this is allowed to continue.
- jjeaff 4y agoAs long as good competition can be fostered, it doesn't have to be bleak. As much as people complain about the adobe packages, it receives updates frequently and new features all the time and I think the monthly fee is reasonable considering what the old one time fees were.
- 1-6 4y agoCadQuery with a GUI sounds really good right now.