Solidworks piracy fine

[RedViking]

Joke is on Solidworks...

What tech company in 2021 still need their potential customers to contact them for a quote just to get the pricing, instead of a "buy now" button with price that goes to a credit card checkout.

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Also, many enterprise software companies (eg Adobe, Autodesk) moved to a monthly or annual subscription based business model and that reduced piracy quite a lot.

Agree. Its an ancient practice that should be killed. And who still uses 'agents'. One of the biggest things that irritates me about Graphisoft as well and other professional software. Eventually they will die if they don't adapt and their greed is going to be their downfall.

 

[rietrot]

Just don't pay. What can they do.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

I heard someone who braai on Mondays

 

[RedViking]

I heard someone who braai on Mondays

What?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

What?

I thought it was the 'I heard of' thread

 

[charlieharper]

Agree. Its an ancient practice that should be killed. And who still uses 'agents'. One of the biggest things that irritates me about Graphisoft as well and other professional software. Eventually they will die if they don't adapt and their greed is going to be their downfall.

Same with companies who still want you to "schedule a call" to cancel a subscription, instead of just a cancel button.... I get anxiety just thinking about it.

 

[spiff]

It's good value bit not a shadow on Solidworks in production environments can even replace mastercam quite efficiently now.

No it's not SW but it's free and as I say to my students if you have a car licence then you can drive any brand of car - so get to know FREECAD and apply that knowledge to other software packages.

mastercam sux

 

[spiff]

Unfortunately Mastercam was the only thing that worked reliably and efficiently with certain hardware. This is the real issue in a production environment, it's all about getting the job done and theory counts for little. Sometimes you use crap and ancient hardware with LPT or Com ports because you don't have (or cantnjstify) 8 mil to replace a single machine.

agreed, master what you have, but I wanted more so I decided in the early 90's to find jobs that had better software & machines. I wanted to know as many software packages and machines as possible.

LPT & COM - the not so good old days - try floppies!

 

[gregmcc]

The good old days of parallel port dongles. I think OrCAD had one back in the day. Was cracked in no time.

 

[wizardofid]

Iv heared of 3 people having to "buy"or face a fine. usually a single seat licence of R100k.

Pay your licences, its the right thing to do. I begrudgingly pay for 3dsmax, Corona renderer, vray, substance painter, adobe suite, forestpack and PTgui...

You do know you can get substance painter on steam, without having to deal with subscriptions, creative cloud and most of all you don't have to deal with adobe. The plus side is you can roll back to the 2020 version before the change and a lot of bugs that came. R819 bucks is a steal to be honest.

 

[Paul Kemp]

no need to hack / crack or pirate anymore when you can download FREECAD with all the features for free?

Thanks for that. Going to give it a try.
Just uninstalled Fusion 360 last week. I just play with the software and for some reason thought their licensing for hobbyists had changed. Reading their site now it seems I was wrong and the hobbyist version is still free just requires annual renewal.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Guys own fault for downloading a CAD program as crap as solidworks

 

[spiff]

Eish... and floppies are becoming pretty scarce! The tide is turning... dassault's corner of the market, though significant, is waning... no doubt old ways of licensing things is helping that along somewhat.

still have floppies & stiffies lying somewhere at home. Think I still have a usb stiffy drive as well.

 

[Paul Kemp]

No it's not SW but it's free and as I say to my students if you have a car licence then you can drive any brand of car - so get to know FREECAD and apply that knowledge to other software packages.

mastercam sux

Spent my evening following along to some FREECAD tutorials. Crashed on me once but once I got the hang of constraints it worked perfectly. Just about every free bit of software I’ve used sucks but this is really good so far. A1++ would recommend from a beginner perspective.

 

[spiff]

Can anyone tell me if freecad does automatic slot joints for laser cut models?

not sure if this is what you looking for

finger-joint tool - FreeCAD Forum

 

[PaulGherkin]

Guys own fault for downloading a CAD program as crap as solidworks

Its very good... actually.
Its always been expensive for no particularly good reason except its a French company and as I've learnt the French love to charge for things.

The crackdown by Dassault Systemes began in 2019 as far as I know. There's even mention of it on Reddit.

However, these calling home things, cannot happen easily in proper corporate networks as the "call home" would be blocked by the firewall and intrusion detection setup. That's how it works where I work. If your app calls home, you need to put in an IT support request to get that app whitelisted, not always an easy task.

I have also heard stories of Dassault Systemes coming after people who used evaluation/student versions.
The reality is their customer base is shrinking not due to piracy, but because better tools exist at a fraction of the price.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Its very good... actually.
Its always been expensive for no particularly good reason except its a French company and as I've learnt the French love to charge for things.

The crackdown by Dassault Systemes began in 2019 as far as I know. There's even mention of it on Reddit.

However, these calling home things, cannot happen easily in proper corporate networks as the "call home" would be blocked by the firewall and intrusion detection setup. That's how it works where I work. If your app calls home, you need to put in an IT support request to get that app whitelisted, not always an easy task.

I have also heard stories of Dassault Systemes coming after people who used evaluation/student versions.
The reality is their customer base is shrinking not due to piracy, but because better tools exist at a fraction of the price.

There is the biggest problem with that crap program, French.

Inventor or Solid Edge FTW, not that Solid Works k@k