http://www.inventorfusion.com/

article here http://www.develop3d.com/

Note the User Interface,also radial menus at cursor. Ill keep an eye on inventorfusion even thought I said in the past never Autodesk again, I can now see they have been working hard to create some new cool tools...

direct modelling is not new but is the way forward IMO, SpaceClaim, CoCreate, Siemens, Catia... they all have it, So it seems to me is more than a trend.

Also Autodesk Sketch coming "also running on a Mac" http://vimeo.com/2419011?pg=embed&sec=2419011

Lets see, Autodesk Sketch + inventorfusion could be a dream come true workflow,

Note: a similar workflow is MoI + SpaceClaim and they are up and running not a tech preview.

Micheal is good to see you here http://www.spaceclaiming.com/forum/topics/spaceclaim-release-5-ideas?x=1&id=2118765%3ATopic%3A9821&page=2#comments SpaceClaim LTX for MoI could be great