On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 2:04 PM Greg Bernard <marzetti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "The biggest problem with the beginners free trial is that its way too > short, and a couple of them are downright insulting in their insistence > to sell you a real licence when the 30 days has expired, Draftsight and > Solidworks are both guilty of the extreme hard sell." Fusion's is pretty fair. You get to use it for free untill you are making $50,000 per year. They just take you word for it. The idea is to be free fro students and hobby users ad small start up companies I think they learns a lot with Autocad. At one time Autocas was the single most pirates software. At first Autodesk throught they were beibg ripped off, then got smarter and figured none of the pirated copies represented lost sales. Those users lacked the means to pay. So it was FAR better to let then user a pirated copy of adutcad then to tell them to use a free competing program. Allowing everyone and his brohter to use the pirat copy made then the industry standard. I think they are tryig to replicate this with Fusion 360 by giving it away to all those who can't pay for it. Then later when you are making $50K you can certainly afford a licences and they say most do in fact pay. No one wants to base their company work flow aroubd perated software. Solid works does nt need a generous trial period because Soldworks in entrenced in the industry. why would anyone need to try it? What is so great is that even those of us at the low end with no budget can use truely profesional level design tools now. I can design a PCB that uses tiny SMD parts and have it made for $2 thenplace it inside a structure made of compound curesandhave all the screws line up and the procees costsnext to nothing. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
