Autodesk Inventor: Tool of satan
further proof
I was asked to be part of a 3D software focus group. Sure, why not, I said! I do a lot of 3d design work, and I love it.
“So how long have you been using autodesk Inventor?”
“I don’t.”
“But Autodesk is the premier product for 3d design!!”
“No, it’s not. It’s an also ran at best, and the only way they stay in business is to give the software away”
Click.
Guess they didn’t want me to be a part of their focus group after all.
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Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke. That’s what I always say.
I like 3DS Max. Sometimes. But I’ve played with Inventor and wouldn’t touch it with your three-meter pole.
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Shit, if I had a 3 meter pole I wouldn’t let you touch it. I’d have a glass case for it and neon lights.
Heh…AutoDesk sucks. I run AutoCAD as-is. None of that automated frilly shit. The more you let the program do your job for you, the more complacent you become. And the more complacent you become, the more mistakes you…er, I mean, the program makes.
Heh, I remember Autodesk back in 1989 sucked and cost a freaking fortune, you could buy a completely tricked-out BMW for a user-license. Bunch of Marin-county rich-pants vultures, screw ’em.
I think that ACAD14 was their best product. I still use my copy. Worked for a few years at an engineering company doing IT work and they always upgraded to the latest and a lot of them thought the same thing…
MS Office 2003 is the same way.
So what is the best? I have AutoCad 2000 that I just mess around with.
I’ve been using Solidworks. it’s spendy but it’s by far the best for good work. Will be doing more posts soon.
We could not get our excellent wide format printers to work right with AutoDesk. No problem with Autocad.
We resisted the switch away from AutoCAD R14 for years at my place of employ. But these days I’m using Civil 3D 2008. (I never learned Land Desktop–I jumped straight from plain vanilla AutoCAD to Civil 3D, and have been going to AutoDesk University every year since, trying to catch up.)
There are times when I wonder if the learning curve is worth it. But I do find a lot of the features to be tremendously convenient and time-saving. (Other features need a few more releases to be worth a shit.)
If time is *not* a factor (and that rarely is the case), then R14 can do anything you really need it to.
Problem is r14 is really only a 2d piece of software. No matter how you deal with it.
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