Can't even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I'm switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.
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Fuck Autodesk. All my homies hate Autodesk.
Look, I'll happily admit that F360 is an excellent CAD program. It kinda sets the standard, but the constant shifting of the goal posts for the free personal use license, plus the Hotel California nature of cloud streaming the app, just pisses me off.
My brother's using it professionally and he's quite happy with it. But his business is paying for a full license for him, so he gets all the benefits, and very few of the annoyances. He's readily admitted that, were that not the case, he'd be looking at FOSS alternatives himself.
I was gonna say, I don't use them professionally and it's been a few years since I tried some alternatives, but being able to use F360 free version and export to usable filetypes, plus the ability to make designs editable and read-only as needed to bypass the document limit, are absolutely amazing.
Used 3ds from 1994-today, but stopped paying in 2015 when they stopped selling permanent licenses. Today I use 2015 and blender, and tho newer max has snazzy plugins like tyflow, it's not worth paying autodesk's ridiculous sub fees.
All the real ones yoho solidworks