![]() ![]() We lacked the free space and he'd come home with a full height 20MB drive. He'd dropped $4,000 on an 8088 clone (built by a local shop) with a 10MB hard drive. It started when he brought it home the first time. Generally speaking I don't think a single piece of software generated more profanity in my home than AutoCAD did. Before I was old enough to "step in and solve the problem", my Dad would just take the dongle home with him on the weekends. But much like Adobe's products, AutoCAD was somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000-$1,500 and because a price tag like that means "a lot of people will pirate it", they required attaching a special device to the parallel port (a "License Dongle") in order to start the application. I'm not sure how AutoCAD was actually licensed. For the kind of catalogues they printed, they were required to provide the files in some format only PageMaker could produce and for their plays. Both were ridiculously expensive large applications with a pretty solid lock on their respective industries. They used Aldus (eventually Adobe) PageMaker to design their catalogues. They used AutoCAD for various things and my dad became proficient enough that he started wanting to use it for various projects at home. My dad's company was light manufacturing. I don't have a lot of direct exposure to Oracle, but I remember grief with Adobe and Autodesk products dating back to the 80s. So many things come to mind with that one sentence, it's mesmerizing. > Autodesk is the oracle/adobe of the CAD world If you mentioned what you wanted to make I can point you further. ![]() Those are different yet still you're making things. Try openscad if you're more of a mathematical mind. Pick one your friends are using and design things. It took me 50 hours to learn solid works, my first tool so I could kinda make what I wanted. But they all let you make stls which are a pita to reverse int drawings but you can. F360 let's you export more complicated formats. The hard part is if you build real ip up in these things that you lose when you get rug pulled. Another analogy is that it's a lot easier to learn to ski or snowboard when you can do the other one already than when you can do neither (even if you feel worse cause you know you can do better). Annotations, lambdas, record types, functors they all have different names in different languages and commas and parens are used differently but when you learn one you get better at learning others. Basically There's a way of thinking about and solving problems in these tools which is common, same as solving things in programming languages is similar but different and maybe different names. The skills in these tools are transferrable. ![]()
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