Michael's Plasticity rants

 From:  pafurijaz
11865.26 In reply to 11865.24 
The whole "CAD for artists" thing could just be marketing hype or a branding strategy, everyone makes their own business choices. That doesn't automatically make it untrue, though. The idea behind a "CAD for artists" is that, unlike traditional CAD software, it uses a direct modeling approach. I don't think the Plasticity developer ever claimed to have invented the concept of CAD for artists; he just said that's the direction he's aiming for according to his roadmap.

If the issue is that people keep emailing you to complain about another program, maybe you should just redirect their complaints to the right place and avoid taking on the stress of replying to folks dumping their grievances on you. After all, FreeCAD and Blender are complicated too, and don't get me started on gCAD3D, it has a terrible UI as well.

The fact that you're especially annoyed by Plasticity, but not by the hundreds of other apps out there, makes me think you might see it as a potential competitor. Otherwise, you'd be making long threads about tons of other programs too.

I'm not saying your points about certain flaws are wrong, but focusing on a few minor issues while ignoring everything else that's good about it feels like a gratuitous attack.

There are plenty of programs that people around here don't like, Blender and FreeCAD especially, but that doesn't mean they're bad applications.

I hope in the future the competition focuses on the features offered, rather than pointing out the flaws in everyone else's software.

Greetings.