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en respuesta a: JDMather

I did not include the actual product name because I am not clear on the "rules" of the forum, and am certainly not advertising on behalf of some other company.

 

The "competitor" costs a lot less than ACAD and it works pretty well. It is definitely not in general more capable in the 3D world than ACAD, and I would say it positions itself merely as a more affordable and maybe easier to learn (debatable) alternative. In most respects I prefer ACAD.

 

In fact the only thing I really find superior so far is how having or not having solid history has absolutely no impact on working with the solid object in it's present state, and transforming it into a new state. The only time history comes to bear is if you want to (drum roll ...), change historical operations.

 

I also like the tree view of selected objects (which is available independent of solid history). It simply makes the properties of the selected objects all accessible at the same time. On the other hand, being able to set the "*VARIES*" value of a set to one thing in one step is nice as well. 

 

Have not looked at Inventor or Fusion 360 -- was keeping focused on AutoAD until I reach a level of competence to legitimately have an opinion as to whether or not it works for me. But definitely the only 2D I think about are in Layouts. Any pointers to a high level explanation of the overlaps and differences of these tools welcomed.

 

In summary, no agenda here other than:

  1. Is the current solid history behavior by design, or is it flaw, or just a bug introduced in v 2017 (I have no experience with earlier versions). If so, maybe it can get fixed or improved. Confess that I find the current behavior incredibly poor.
  2. It would be great if AutoDesk could adopt and improve on an idea or feature of a knock off,  rather than the flow always going the other way!
  3. Learn from the experience of others who have done a whole lot more drawing than I have. It is amazing how much time you can waste because you are not doing things the right way.