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There's an interesting cultural divide here. Probably a majority of mechanical and electrical designers still think it's risky and weird to use software that do
by analog31 2y ago
There's an interesting cultural divide here. Probably a majority of mechanical and electrical designers still think it's risky and weird to use software that doesn't come from a vendor. Even though they experience occasional outages when something goes wrong with the license billing and payment. The electricals are a bit further along, I think because they're closer to the programming world.
- jwagenet 2y agoI think it’s more that management in this space is very traditional and from a business perspective there’s not much downside to a subscription. The individual engineers don’t really have a choice in cad package anyway and frankly, the alternatives still suck in mechanical space. Not to mention, file formats between packages are sort of interoperable, but often the design history cannot be transferred. It’s not like software land where if a vendor goes down (and the code is reasonably structured), an organization can mostly replace it with substitutes.