Adventures in proprietary software, Solidworks edition

[zaitcev]

Because FreeCAD was such a disaster for me, I started looking at crazy solutions, like exporting STEP from OpenSCAD. I even stooped to looking at proprietary alternatives. First on the runway was SolidWorks. If it's good for Mark Serbu, surely it's good for me, right?

The first thing I found, you cannot tap your card and download. You have to

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[b0p0h0k]

Fortunately, I used a one-time address

That needs to be de rigueur for everyone. Whenever I create a new account with a vendor or somesuch, they get a unique email addy for me. Currently, there are 345 of these.

[zaitcev]

I have 206.