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I just sent in a request for a refund of the balance on my one-year subscription that I just purchased a month ago. Unfortunately it is over the 30-days in thei

by eggy 4y ago

I just sent in a request for a refund of the balance on my one-year subscription that I just purchased a month ago. Unfortunately it is over the 30-days in their purchase refund policy by just one day. Hopefully they honor it, and then I am purchasing Rhino, and I will use my free FEA options (Calculix, openFoam, Lisa 8.0 (I bought this for less than $100USD. Demo is free for 1000 nodes perpetually), and believe it or not, Mathematica has some cool ways of FEM/FEA techniques. This is such a creepy way of making money by pissing your customer off. I am getting sick of Autodesk. I once sold Autodesk products (Inventor, Mechanical) in the NYC Tri-state area for six months. My only real true sales job. I was told I was too technical, and to upsell the client! EDIT: I know nTopology is expensive, but has anyone tried it or have experience with it? I am willing to spend money on products that are truly productive and innovative.

carterschonwald 4y ago
I’m actually wanting to build my own nTop adjacent tool because I’ve been wanting a programmatic style design tool that uses a similar internal rep (signed distance function), but with a programming sort of Ux to build up shapes on top.
daniel-cussen 4y ago
Autodesk, what I liked, is it supported Lisp. Once upon a time, and even then no macros, so it's like...now it's C++... I talked to some Autodesk guys on a ferry, it's all about like getting the building designed correctly the first time to code. Fixing stuff is expensive. It actually makes sense from that perspective there would only be one company encompassing the problem. But why tighten the internet leash? Internet access is a leash.
danwills 4y ago
There's SideFX Houdini. It's a VFX software mainly but it's also like an amazingly powerful CG/simulations OS and tools-collection. It can be tried out for free (the full software with only some fairly reasonable limits in my opinion) With a bit of hacker elbow-grease it can be made to read and write things in wildly different formats fairly easily. It can be hard to learn initially! but I would certainly recommend it!
- eggy 4y ago
  I was using Houdini when it was called Prisms on an SGI Irix machine. It is for 3D graphics and effects, not CAD or FEM/FEA. Autodesk Fusion is for creating 3D geometry and testing your design with an FEA analysis. Houdini uses a physics engine for graphics, not engineering results or stress analysis. Autodesk have now made the FEA simulation portion fee and cloud-based, when it was free before if you ran it locally on your computer. I have Houdini installed for fun, but I also use Blender (since 2000). Two different uses entirely between Houdini and Autodesk Fusion 360.

by eggy 4y ago

carterschonwald 4y ago

I’m actually wanting to build my own nTop adjacent tool because I’ve been wanting a programmatic style design tool that uses a similar internal rep (signed distance function), but with a programming sort of Ux to build up shapes on top.

daniel-cussen 4y ago

Autodesk, what I liked, is it supported Lisp. Once upon a time, and even then no macros, so it's like...now it's C++... I talked to some Autodesk guys on a ferry, it's all about like getting the building designed correctly the first time to code. Fixing stuff is expensive. It actually makes sense from that perspective there would only be one company encompassing the problem. But why tighten the internet leash? Internet access is a leash.

danwills 4y ago

There's SideFX Houdini. It's a VFX software mainly but it's also like an amazingly powerful CG/simulations OS and tools-collection. It can be tried out for free (the full software with only some fairly reasonable limits in my opinion) With a bit of hacker elbow-grease it can be made to read and write things in wildly different formats fairly easily. It can be hard to learn initially! but I would certainly recommend it!

eggy 4y ago
I was using Houdini when it was called Prisms on an SGI Irix machine. It is for 3D graphics and effects, not CAD or FEM/FEA. Autodesk Fusion is for creating 3D geometry and testing your design with an FEA analysis. Houdini uses a physics engine for graphics, not engineering results or stress analysis. Autodesk have now made the FEA simulation portion fee and cloud-based, when it was free before if you ran it locally on your computer. I have Houdini installed for fun, but I also use Blender (since 2000). Two different uses entirely between Houdini and Autodesk Fusion 360.