r/pcmasterrace • u/Away-Huckleberry9967 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro Let's check it out on Github

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u/C6500 7950X3D | 4090 | 32GB DDR5-6000 28-35-35-59 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/tangentandhyperbole 22h ago

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.

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u/PleiadesMechworks 17h ago

ZWCAD is literally a clone of Autocad

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

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u/AdLocal1490 14h ago

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 🤔

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u/dib1999 Ryzen 5 5600 // RX 7700XT // 32 gb DDR4 3600 MHz 13h ago

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