> 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.
Payed around $2,000 for a CNC machine so Software for $4,000 is relatively expensive. > I'm a very happy FreeCAD user. It's not as polished nor as feature rich > as Solidworks, Fusion360, etc., ... Same as I concluded, as is now it's not worth spending $4,000 but for others it might be. > ... > 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
