For folks who are curious, the product in question here is physical objects and Onshape is a CAD program. Their licensing kerfuffle was a bit more subdued than

For folks who are curious, the product in question here is physical objects and Onshape is a CAD program. Their licensing kerfuffle was a bit more subdued than Autdesk's on-going slow motion crash (maybe AD has finally come to a rest) --- as noted elsethread, all documents on a free account are public. The opensource alternatives are a wide-ranging lot: - BRL CAD --- intensely old-school, it is one of the oldest opensource codebases - FreeCAD --- exactly what it says on the tin, the recent fixes and UI updates have put it back on the radar for a lot of folks - Solvespace --- small/light-weight and nimble (a single downloadable executable on Windows last I checked) it has a UI which I never found comfortable - Dune 3D --- the new kid on the block, it has a remarkably polished UI (it's the only interactive CAD program whose tutorial I made it through more-or-less successfully) --- it's had a number of previous discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37979758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37979758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975958 Or, of course, one can just code a design using OpenSCAD (and for the Python folks there's https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ and so forth).