Abhijit
Member
As a Generalist, working at the intersection of Art, Design and Engineering, unconstrained form/idea explorations has been an important and elementary part of my workflow.
Which was the reason I was pulled towards Moi as a complementary tool to my main MCAD, Alibre.
The freedom to ideate with no constraints, time consuming sketches and breaking features, proves to be a productivity and creativity multiplier.
Nick Allen, an artist and a developer understood all these pain points, and made his own CAD for Artists and Designers, Plasticity.
From a basic interface and commands, initially using C3D Geometry Kernel to pivoting to Parasolid, in 18 months he has managed to develop an amazing real-time direct modelling app that imo already gives a lot of CAD tools a run for the money they charge.
His goal is to make Plasticity, "The modern Alias".
What I am astonished by, is all this is done by one single man, updates every week, bug fixes in hours, implementing new features unbelievably fast.
The reason I brought this up, is because such Indie softwares are actually a reality check to all these behemoths moving at an Elephants pace and failing to empathise with a lot of what their users needs and wants are.
Alibre is my core MCAD and I love this software and the company.
I really wish the stakeholders see the potential of such markets and user segments, maybe as a way differentiating from the highly saturated MCAD market.
While I understand the pace and complexity of developement is different with an Industry grade Parametric Mechanical CAD vs a simple Direct Modeller, but it definitely can be a possible scenario having all those unconstrained shapeforming and high quality surfacing capabilities if one imagines.
Maybe, such a concept should have been the Alibre Atom, a hyper-powerful direct modelling core for creatives, hobbyists, newbies, and Pro and Expert with the added Parametric/Procedural capabilities?
Just food for thought, and apologies in advance for the off-topic thread.
Which was the reason I was pulled towards Moi as a complementary tool to my main MCAD, Alibre.
The freedom to ideate with no constraints, time consuming sketches and breaking features, proves to be a productivity and creativity multiplier.
Nick Allen, an artist and a developer understood all these pain points, and made his own CAD for Artists and Designers, Plasticity.
From a basic interface and commands, initially using C3D Geometry Kernel to pivoting to Parasolid, in 18 months he has managed to develop an amazing real-time direct modelling app that imo already gives a lot of CAD tools a run for the money they charge.
His goal is to make Plasticity, "The modern Alias".
What I am astonished by, is all this is done by one single man, updates every week, bug fixes in hours, implementing new features unbelievably fast.
The reason I brought this up, is because such Indie softwares are actually a reality check to all these behemoths moving at an Elephants pace and failing to empathise with a lot of what their users needs and wants are.
Alibre is my core MCAD and I love this software and the company.
I really wish the stakeholders see the potential of such markets and user segments, maybe as a way differentiating from the highly saturated MCAD market.
While I understand the pace and complexity of developement is different with an Industry grade Parametric Mechanical CAD vs a simple Direct Modeller, but it definitely can be a possible scenario having all those unconstrained shapeforming and high quality surfacing capabilities if one imagines.
Maybe, such a concept should have been the Alibre Atom, a hyper-powerful direct modelling core for creatives, hobbyists, newbies, and Pro and Expert with the added Parametric/Procedural capabilities?
Just food for thought, and apologies in advance for the off-topic thread.