Oh, AutoDesk...you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.
I didn't know that "the future" is a synonym for "program" now
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I've been paying like 10/mo for solidworks.
This is the slow victory of open source. Why would you pay money to be told "no?" These industry-squatting products make tremendous strides in pissing off their customers, finding new ways to charge exorbitant prices to not own it.
When the grassroots alternatives cost zero dollars per seat, have no contractual restrictions, invite everyone to stone-soup their tiny fixes into constant progress, and do everything the majority of basic users need - the commercial default better be real fuckin' impressive.
SolidWorks is cheap for noncommercial and is the only package that I know of that still offers a permanent license for commercial work.
There is also Solid Edge noncommercial if you are doing 3D printing around the house.
It bugs me that I use tinkercad but nothing foss is nearly as friendly to use, and I tried (I think it's librecad the parametric 3d one?) But even though I understand the concept I didn't find any success modeling with it.