On 9/17/20 2:33 PM, Glenn Edwards wrote: > I am a member of ASME and they should be doing something like > this- I will contact my local chapter.
You're looking at this from the end user perspective. Yes, it would be very appreciated if the ASME included a $4000 software license as a benefit of membership. I think the correct perspective for analyzing this is the vendor's perspective as they decide who pays what for their software. The incremental price of software is nearly zero, so the price of software in the marketing world is whatever the customer will pay. Experimental Aircraft Association members aren't going to pay for Solidworks, so they can have it as a benefit of EAA membership. ASME members are the targeted market for Solidworks, so they're expected to pay the $4,000 or $8,000 up front and $1300 per year thereafter. I'm a very happy FreeCAD user. It's not as polished nor as feature rich as Solidworks, Fusion360, etc., but it does more than I need and I'm not worried about exporting all of my designs to non-proprietary file formats because I live in constant fear that my CAD vendor is going to unilaterally change the rules and the designs that I created will be held hostage and exorbitant sums will be extorted from me to continue using the tools I know to access the designs I created. Remember Darth Vader in Lando's cloud city? CAD User: We had an agreement! CAD Vendor: I'm altering our agreement. Pray I don't alter it further. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
