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Re: Autodesk to acquire PTC
From a business standpoint it makes sense for Autodesk to absorb (or kill) the competition to collect on more Fusion (or whatever) subscriptions.
MDesign
Re: Autodesk to acquire PTC
This seems like it would lead to something, likely not very beneficial to onshape users.
Re: Autodesk to acquire PTC
An acquisition from Autodesk would be my worst nightmare. I've never really had a lasting positive experience with Autodesk on anything…ever.
Re: how do you make a drawing of a part of a part studio?
Make an open composite of the set of parts in that part studio. Then make a drawing of the open composite.
Re: Question on Thread Creator
If you are 3D printing both bolt and nut, is better not to use threadcreator for nut. better subtract the bolt form a full nut with boolean using offset all parameter with a 0.2 offset or similar.
Re: NEW Custom Features for Mesh
@romeograham in other software packages these kinds of approximation functions tend to run on face normals and angles and not vertex clouds. Featurescript only has mesh vertices exposed to it and not individual mesh triangles and face normals to my knowledge, so this would be more difficult to achieve with purely vertex logic alone. I've seen others suggest reconstructing the triangles from the vertex data but I would expect that to be challenging because a group of vertices has many different ways it could be triangulated.
Re: Autodesk to acquire PTC
It's hard to see news like this in an optimistic lens because even if I acknowledge the breadth of tools Autodesk offers and some of the generative design or reverse engineering suite they could bring to the table for a product like Onshape, their whole pricing model compartmentalizes everything in a way that you never have access to the full suite of tools. That's a lesson that game devs learned years ago is that you do not want to segment your live userbase into sub-chunks of pay-to-play tiers with different access levels to the product because you'll hemorrhage players to your competitors who aren't doing so.