After college I got a Pyrex 5L erlenmeyer flask as a wine decanter and it's served me well two and a half decades later. Always a fun topic when people see it for the first time.
I got a set of 25ml Erlenmeyer flasks to use as shot glasses. Also fun, and with the bonus feature that if you can't pour into the very narrow neck, you probably don't need a shot.
I never understood why this is such a deal breaker. I just export The stl from Openscad then do fillets in Fusion. It's another step but usually only a few mins of clicking.
Let me translate this to software engineering: "I never understood why people have such a problem with Windoze".
The answer to your question in the context of CAD modeling:
Fusion is closed-source.
Their model files are closed-source (specs aren't public)
AutoDesk is one of the worst company in the world when it comes to inter-operability, and this by design. It's just in the DNA of that company.
Their customers is their enemy, they know it full well, but they don't care because the walls of the prison are made of steel and one meter thick.
Your object construction pipeline is guaranteed to become obsolete at some point in the future.
Good luck grabbing an object you built 10 years ago and doing some light editing on it.
Good luck grabbing a parametric design and exporting it to something else, either another CAD package or something to do visualization and do further work on the model in there.
Fusion is a real nice tool. First taste is free. Then you're on the AutoDesk hook for ever.
You may not care about these things, especially in a commercial setup.
I don't know I'm the same and find being in the valley more stressful than the drive to wembley from central London. More taxing mentally to have insane people passing you at 100mph. The licensing is harder but still was a one shot 5 hour prep thing for me.
Partly. But it isn't necessarily Xenophobia. Those who have different cultures happen to be typically immigrants, but not always.
e.g. In Northern Ireland (and parts of Scotland) there were clashes between Protestants and Catholics. I used to see them all the time on the news when I was a kid. There are two distinct groups (both Christian) that have not co-existed very well historically. I don't know if you would call them different cultures but they are distinct enough to cause a schism.
If you have immigration into one country. These people with different cultures, have different values. That creates a schism between them and the natives.
e.g. You can see this in Spain between British Expats and Spanish Nationals. The British Expats essentially live in particular areas and they are their own subculture in Spain (I know I was one). I lived the entire time in Spain learning nothing more than being able to order Beer, Lunch, Taxi and working out how to use the automated bill payment machine at the BBVA.
Sure. That's a very generous interpretation. But I am quite certain OP does not mean "priviliged white dudes" as the issue with "multiculturalism". May OP can expand on what they mean exactly.
No it isn't a "generous interpretation". You seem to be taking very uncharitable interpretation while insinuating they are some sort of unrepentant racist. I am not sure why you are doing that. I find it extremely tiresome.
I deliberately gave examples where both groups were White Europeans so to avoid any conflation with racism. Otherwise the conversation is guaranteed to go nowhere as it ends up in accusations of people being secretly racist.
The problem is simply a clash of values between two disparate groups of people as they come from different cultures. The ethnicity of the groups is often irrelevant.
