They're mostly not. Guntubers have given a lot of people that didn't grow up with/around firearms basic knowledge and safety info. It's a pretty sweet deal.
In most commercial software you can create a sketch, draw a shape, extrude it out, cut some holes in it and it stores it in an ordered tree. You can go back and change the first sketch and it'll go back through and update the resulting model. If you export that as an open format you only get the result of all those steps - you lose the instructions the software uses to create them.
You can do other things like have parameters. You could make a sketch and have dimensions defined by a statement dim2 = dim1 * 5 sort of thing. When you update dim1, it would also update dim2.
I don't know where OpenSCAD fits in here. I should play with it a bit. I suspect scripts can be written to behave very similarly.
There's also a lot of other shit crammed into commercial formats - materials, drawings, stress analysis and other shit we wouldn't normally need.
Most of it is focused on corporate shit. Integration with ERP packages and full manufacturing data. They also host a lot of plugins that sometimes work out mostly okay lol. NX has python scripting which I'm a fan of at work, but I mostly use models at work so I'm just using it to get access to a python interpreter.
If you look up the release group solidworks (if they're still around, ru cad focused) they release a lot of random modules for the different CAD packages.
I (well, supposedly) knew the guy who unleashed SQL Slammer and a small group of friends (into Ragnarok Online hacking/botting) sat around on IRC watching backbone router pings go apeshit until ISPs started blocking it. It was also amusing checking firewall logs to see whose servers were vulnerable.
I have piracy accounts older than my niece and nephew.
Had to call rackspace and get new credentials for a friend in Iraq after that massive raid.
Libertarians see government as inherently prone to corruption and thus want to limit their power as much as possible.
I prefer voluntary interaction to using force or violence. Personally I believe we're obligated to help each other and our community and would voluntarily be a collectivist - I'm just not willing to force everyone else to.
We still need to modify liability and IP law to disincentivize megacorps and not use violence to benefit the wealthy.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....
Breakfast cereal served the standard way, in a bowl with cold milk poured on and eaten with a spoon. Does this count as a soup, why or why not? Defend your answer with logic (or emotion, whatever I'm not your dad)
My limit is basically -18C (0F). But I don't spend any time outside in that state. Parking lot to work entrance. I've gone an entire year no long pants.
Any serious issue should have a paper trail of some sort. Emails, meetings, part rejections, that sort of thing. There are processes in place to allow anonymous reporting of some of these things.
Time to move ( lemmy.world )
Pity, really.
Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined ( variety.com )
YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy ( gizmodo.com )
Israeli military rescues four hostages alive from Gaza, including Noa Argamani ( www.nbcnews.com )
Which company is more aggressive toward pirates? Autodesk or Dassault?
Lets say you pirate CAD software like Autodesk Inventor or Dassault Solidworks....
we love open source!!1! ( lemmy.ca )
Every time I hear news from the tech industry lately ( lemmy.world )
Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)
What "I was there!" stories are you impatient to brag about to the next generations?
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
UN says 800,000 people have fled Rafah as Israel kills dozens in Gaza ( www.aljazeera.com )
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Detroit just had it's first population growth in 66 years. Huzzah!
Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies ( townflex.com )
Richard "Rick" Slayman: Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies, his death came just two weeks after his surgery. latest news on townflex
As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?
As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....
E-Bikes Should Not Require Pedaling, Proposes U.K. Government, Diverging From E.U. ( www.forbes.com )
E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.
Is Cereal a Soup?
Breakfast cereal served the standard way, in a bowl with cold milk poured on and eaten with a spoon. Does this count as a soup, why or why not? Defend your answer with logic (or emotion, whatever I'm not your dad)
Front of Boeing 767 scrapes along Istanbul runway after front landing gear failure ( www.independent.co.uk )
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )
Temperatur ( sh.itjust.works )
Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident ( www.arktrek.shop )
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two ( www.hindustantimes.com )
Drew Barrymore Reveals She Accidentally Left Her "Sex List" at Danny DeVito's House ( www.marieclaire.com )