And, now that this is the current state, things are regressing to what they once were.San Rafael, Calif. It seems apparent now, that the majority of the impetus and direction was coming from a few, insightful, forward thinking people that are no longer involved.

Now, I am seeing things like the above ( I had not been paying attention for a while ) and it seems to start to make a whole lot more sense. And then a short while after, I started seeing the old AD I recognized and disliked. it all stopped and things seemed to actually go backwards to a point. There were a few bumps and stumbles in the beginning, but overall I was very pleasantly surprised with how responsive they were and how quickly things were being addressed.Īnd then almost suddenly. I actually believed what was being proffered, and the good things that were happening at the time made that easier to occur. Early on, against my judgement and previous experiences with AD spanning more than two decades ( almost three, now )and ranging from educational, hobbyist, and professional interactions, I drank the HSMWorks takeover / Fusion 360 introduction Kool-Aid and bought in. It's been much harder to walk away on the milling side, so I'm much more empathetic these days.ĮDIT - I should elaborate. When it no longer was capable of handling my needs, it was easy to walk away from, its not that powerful of a tool. To me, its never been something I NEEDED, just some extra tools that came in handy when I needed to program a turned part. I think he was one of a small handful of people who ACTUALLY paid for HSM turning module directly, and also directly contributed to its now free status.Īnyway, I think this really heavily influences how you view HSMworks turning. I think the vast majority of Autodesk CAM users fall into the opposite category, and turning was a free perk Autodesk decided to hand out. It's easy to forget that Lonnies work revolves heavily (almost exclusively, iirc) around turning, and that his HSMworks purchase was largely influenced by the then recent addition of turning coupled with promises and assumptions that it would be developed at a reasonable pace. I typed out a big long thing and deleted it.

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