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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. That specialist interfaces make you productive? Sketchpad was just a cad tool, one of the first ones to be sure,

• zogrodea 2y ago
  I'm just putting this Alan Kay question (from Stack Overflow) here because of relevance. In that question, he's considered not with implementation or how good the execution of an idea is (which is certainly one type of progress), but in genuinely new ideas. I don't think I personally am qualified to say yes or no. There are new data structures since then for example, but those tend to be improvements over existing ideas rather than "fundamental new ideas" which I understand him (perhaps wrongly) to be asking for. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-inventions-in-computing-since-1980 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-i...
• agumonkey 2y ago
  this is awfully manual, does autocad have parametric topology tools ? programs like houdini are more reactive and mathematical (no need to create width/volume by hand and trim intersections by hand), i think mech engineering tools (memory fail here) have options like this
  • llm_trw 2y ago
    No idea, I mostly use freecad and I've been told autocad has more tools. In freecard there are parametric tools which are very much like what was shown in the demo but in 3d. I tend to use script which render to openscad for the parts that I want to be parametric.