On 7/11/23 06:43PM, John Dammeyer wrote:
And the cost of the bait is very low compared to the number of fish they are catching with it. Once you have several years of drawings (all essentially free) throwing an upgrade that now costs on ly a tiny bit, hardly anything, but "Will enhance your user experience!" is in the works.
There is still a big problem - the most expensive part of the software is your time learning to use it. What if you get married to it, and they stop the free use deal? I'm still married to
I got burned with electronic-CAD software - the software quit unless you signed up for their new expensive support package..
I've been using FreeCAD - slowly getting better - steep learning curve, but they can't pull the plug -- AND it runs on linux. The new adaptive clearing bit is nice. Working around bugs is part of the deal.
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