What are our options though? I’m a mechanical engineer. Work pays $10k+ annually for my CAD subscription, but at home I use Fusion 360. FreeCAD and Open SCad are nice, but limiting compared to the big platforms.
If I only did my data analytics, maybe I could use Mono on Linux at home and distribute to my colleagues on Windows, but needing CAD means I’m probably stuck with Microsoft for a little while.
I think most of the ultra-expensive CAD platforms have Linux editions now, but our IT group doesn’t want to consider using Linux machines to the engineering group. I don’t blame them, half of our engineers can barely use Windows (and still regularly complain about moving away from blueprints and drafting 20 years ago).
Time to not buy from shitty OEMs that agree to do this
What are our options though? I’m a mechanical engineer. Work pays $10k+ annually for my CAD subscription, but at home I use Fusion 360. FreeCAD and Open SCad are nice, but limiting compared to the big platforms.
If I only did my data analytics, maybe I could use Mono on Linux at home and distribute to my colleagues on Windows, but needing CAD means I’m probably stuck with Microsoft for a little while.
I think most of the ultra-expensive CAD platforms have Linux editions now, but our IT group doesn’t want to consider using Linux machines to the engineering group. I don’t blame them, half of our engineers can barely use Windows (and still regularly complain about moving away from blueprints and drafting 20 years ago).