Bruce, Yes and No. ASME, like EAA, would act as a distributor or reseller. ASME has a membership problem, declining badly over the years, and needs a way of attracting new blood especially the recent grads and independent consultants: many of whom are underemployed at this time. And SW pricing is aimed at the corporate world. The two- ASME and SW- can meet in the middle and both benefit..
Glenn On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:57 AM Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com> wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
