Let's check it out on Github

[u/Away-Huckleberry9967]

[u/FoleyX90]

> Open source alternatives to Adobe software isn't exactly a new concept.

True but we haven't really had as much of an equalizer to big companies as we do now.

But whoever is the UX director for GIMP should be fired. I don't care of they're an organization of open source programmers, what they have done should be considered crimes against humanity.

GIMP and Blender (before 2.8) are honestly some of the most atroxious things I've seen regarding UX.. and I've even used a lot of Japanese software.

[u/C6500 → u/FoleyX90]

The UI thing is so important, yet a lot of open projects suffer from this.

There's also SolidCraft on Github now, it's a few days old and a decomp/rebuild of Fusion360.
Not the same devs, but the same concept.

Of course it's extremely new and a lot of stuff isn't working yet, but it's already more useable than FreeCAD ever was in 20(?) years of development because it's UI is so shit.

[u/tangentandhyperbole → u/C6500]

China is way ahead of us on this. ZWCAD is literally a clone of Autocad and offers a perpetual license. They have their own version of Revit I haven't messed with.

[u/PleiadesMechworks → u/tangentandhyperbole]

ZWCAD is literally a clone of Autocad

Turns out "development" is a lot easier when you just copy someone's homework

[u/AdLocal1490 → u/PleiadesMechworks]

Sounds very similar to american industrialists with things like the automobile and the train.

Nobody accuses Henry ford of being a thief despite all the theiving and copying he did.

I wonder what the difference is 🤔

[u/dib1999 → u/AdLocal1490]

Socialism bad. But also please Daddy Gubmint, restrict their ability to compete in a free marketplace! They're using my idea!!!