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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
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      One glaringly obvious problem...it's AutoDesk

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      • JQLJ Offline
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        Meaning you won't join the darkside?

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        • D Offline
          DOD3R
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          I dont believe that touch application will be faster or better in any way compared to mouse keaybord based aplications any time soon.

          Dark side nowadays is making big progress compared to the previous years. And from version 2010 and 2011 autocad LT started to be a somewhat berable product. And now that with 2015 and 2016 versions supporting graphiccard accelerated viewport rendering ( it doesnt have jaggy lines anymore ) it is quite ok.
          And autodesk is going to become subscription only from 1st of February. Before that it is possible to buy last propritary licences. In my opinion it is the last chance to buy. After 31.1.2016 you can only subscribe.

          regards,
          T.

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
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            @jql said:

            Meaning you won't join the darkside?

            You mean re-join?

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            • KrisidiousK Offline
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              and look at this range of products they offer... Each capable of absolute professional work in their respective fields with even more specialized software beneath.

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              • G Offline
                Glenn at home
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                Meh, I have no issue with AutoDesk products. They work for me and have kept me employed for well over 20 years in various companies ranging from a teaching hospital, corporate offices of a doughnut shop, home builder, 2 different modular casework shops and now at a university. Never had a problem finding a job with my AutoDesk knowledge. Haters gonna hate I guess, as the kids say. We currently have Building Design Suite Premium and it has a bundle of good products for the price.
                Good thing that there is an option for others out there to use.

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                • pbacotP Offline
                  pbacot
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                  I don't use them (and I live right up the road, even gone to demos at HQ). But I am confused by how many products they have. I guess you can choose the approach that is nice for you? It appears that Formit leads to Revit? Is this a new scheme? "CAD it" "Form it" "Revise it?"

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                  • JQLJ Offline
                    JQL
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                    Formit seems to fit on very precise jobs on the range an architectural position offers. Sketchup can do what formit does in a better way and doesn't necessarly need other software. (I know I don't)

                    I don't believe Formit will grow to compete against Revit itself. As my guess is that Sketchup will eventually want to take a share at Revit's market and expand it's use within arch offices using Revit, I think we (architects using sketchup in an expanded way) are still on track.

                    The thing that seems interesting to me, is that there are already people (maybe Formit is not the best example but there are others) that are tackling Sketchup's space.

                    Usually they still don't have it all, but they have a lot of features that are much better and less burdenned by old code.

                    If they manage to grow up (community wise, plugins available, wider user base) sketchup will be really in danger.

                    I imagine the following scenario:

                    • MOI;
                    • Layout for MOI;
                    • Thea render inside MOI...

                    I'd probably wouldn't need anything more to have a great alternative to SU in terms of price/features.

                    Rhino + Grasshopper + Thea for Rhino always felt like a very nice bundle. A little pricey for me to have in my office but tempting.

                    I just feel that sketchup is still faster when it comes to doing my stuff and finding connections to other things...

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                      On WEB πŸ˜‰ (can load obj, STL)

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                      • C Offline
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                        It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better says G. Versace.. Every single sketchup releases, we all itch to recompose our wishlist to a point we give up wishing. I think these developments will propel Trimble to act faster than all of our wishlists combined would.. Many of us who started who from early stages of SU (free version) couldnt see much difference as far as native tools is concerned now that we are paying every release. SU owes its milestones to its users (and of course to loyal code writers). One of the ways SU could stay in the game is to consider "interoperability" with other 3d apps which is the strength of Autodesk. Why do i need 3rd party or a special plugin to import industry standard 3d formats?

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