Just close your eyes and imagine how much creativity and productivity could be unleashed if basic CAD was as accessible as a document editor.
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Been thinking about that as analogous to
@Glitch. The time for this *has* to be coming.
I keep thinking about this too. For every 20 teams working on better programming tools I know of 0.2 trying to make life better for other engineers.
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I used to think this was bottlenecked by the difficulty of mastering 3D programming, perhaps.
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I now think that two cultural factors are likely just as big an issue: vendor lock-in taking air out of the room for innovation and the assumption that all engineers can improve their own tools, so “other engineering” gets little love from the software world. Maybe.
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Until it's possible to make it truly collaborative it's tough to make a case for starting from scratch on a tool for an expert audience. I've been watching
@figmadesign slowly take over. Users compromise on features and switch their habits only if they're getting something better -
Yeah! I was kind of thinking
@figmadesign but for designing in the physical world.
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