Got one thing to say to this ex-CEO
Blender 2.8...
You can shove Subscription models up your robot's A$$....
Time to end Autodesk's oppressive Max/Maya dominance...
Departing Autodesk CEO says he became dumber and less funny the moment he quit
Carl Bass says quitting will mean people stop laughing at his jokes as we noted in passing yesterday, Autodesk's Carl Bass has stepped aside as CEO. And now he's penned an unusually sincere missive explaining why. Bass writes that “When I first became CEO, people asked me what it was like and I joked 'I immediately became …
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Thursday 9th February 2017 10:01 GMT Dave 126
Re: Got one thing to say to this ex-CEO
Just to clarify: I wasn't knocking the quality of Blender, but it a tool that serves a different purpose to things like AutoDesk Inventor (or D'Assault's Solidworks, Siemen's NX etc etc)- engineering and construction PLM software. The open-source equivalent to these isn't Blender but FreeCAD (though it doesn't look to be as developed). As the OP observed, Blender does the same sort of things as AutoDesk Maya - animation, game assets, special effects, product rendering etc. You might use Blender or Maya to create a CGI car for a movie, but you wouldn't use it to engineer a real car.
For may people's purposes ( modelling and a bit of light Compuer Aided Manufacture) the relatively low-cost Rhinoceros 3D is good enough, and it as some strengths of its own such as support for procedurally-generated geometry via a plug-in. For some people, it justifies its cost just as a file conversion utility.
One exciting trend in the last few years has been the integration of parametric CAD (a la Inventor) with free-form modelling (a la Maya) within the same environment.
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Thursday 9th February 2017 10:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Got one thing to say to this ex-CEO
Agree. If you make cars or industrial stuff then you can pay for industrial tools like Maya, but lots of users of Max and Maya, like me are on a budget and blender does everything 3d that's not real world exceptionally well.
I liked Maya but it was always a hacked copy, $10k + is not a universal price tag.
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Thursday 9th February 2017 10:28 GMT Dave 126
Re: Got one thing to say to this ex-CEO
Indeed, CAD has always had a high price tag, traditionally lost in the $100K cost of the hardware required to run it, or the millions invested in the car plant or oil rig being designed.
I've seen small manufacturing shops running happily on Rhinoceros 3D, more affordably priced at 'only' £700ish, especially considering the thousands that a modest CNC mill costs.
Here's the lovely thing though - these design tools allow for hardware to be made less expensively. We're used to the idea of silicon becoming cheaper every year, but advancements in manufacturing tools allow physical objects to be made at greater quality for the same price.
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Thursday 9th February 2017 09:44 GMT Potemkine
And don't forget your pills
I am not leaving to spend more time with my family [...] I will, however, be spending more time in my shop with my robots
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Thursday 9th February 2017 20:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
All careers end in failure. Remember that. You will never, ever, get all that you wanted done. And you can't please all the people all of the time. Or even some of the time.
With that in mind, this missive from the CEO sounds a lot better than the usual sterilized nonsense, and for those that point out that 21% of CEOs are nut jobs, well, 79% of them were not. So let's give the guy some credit for trying. Or would you prefer to sit in the peanut gallery, take potshots and encourage the next letter writer to spout pablum?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
