On Saturday 30 May 2020 20:34:39 Chris Albertson wrote: > I think you have confused OnShape and SolidWorks. > > OnShape and SolidWorks are completely separate products. One did not > transition to the other and both are big-league players now. OK, > there is a connection. Some executives quit Dassault Systèmes SE (the > makers of SolidWorks) to found this new start-up called OnShape. The > two companies are competitors.
Today maybe... > OnShape does not offer a trial period. And you never "install" it so > you would not have needed to delete it. OnShape is web-based and can > be used on any computer with an Internet connection with no "install" > required. > > It sounds like your licensing problems must have been with SolidWorks. > They were. And regardless of the path those people took to get to Onshape from Dassault, we are faced with the fact that a leopard cannot change his spot pattern. > I would not recommend SolidWorks to any hobby user. The cost is "mid > four digits" which puts it out of reach. They have certainly gotten hungry in the decade since I encountered them so unpleasantly. > As for learning, Fusion and OnShape both have very good tutorials that > were produced by the companies themselves and I've gotten good tech > support even without paying for the products. > > About design files. Keep backups in STEP format. Then do the normal > such that at all times you date lives on three different physical > media and at two different geographical locations. > > > Funny you should mention Onshape though, formerly Solidworks. I made > > the mistake years ago of downloading their so called freebie that > > had a 30 day free trial, then found it had zero help unless you had > > paid for it, and I was totally lost, never having dealt with any CAD > > like program before. So I deleted it, then spent the next year > > feeding their legal threats to spamassassin and replying to them by > > denying that a copy of it existed on any system I owned. To say > > they were insistent assholes about it is being way nicer than they > > deserved. They did every threat in the book short of sending it to > > a bill collector. I half expected to get a registered letter at > > anytime, demanding I cough up the $600 they wanted, but eventually > > they gave up. So you can guess how fat the chance is that I'll ever > > deal with those people again. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > > respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
