I am not a professional architect or engineer (in the construction space), so I haven’t tried it. The subscription pricing turns me away.
Seems like it has most of the same offerings as Bonsai just by browsing the marketing materials (support for IFC). Not sure if it’s native IFC or translated to their proprietary format, likely the latter.
With that said, seems like it’s more or less the same learning curve (ignoring price)
Generally I think modeling in the computer without proper detail in measurements and geometry is error prone.
I will normally capture a 3D point cloud (can use a Kinect for this) and perform a geometry scaling, then use AI to map it into 3D surfaces compatible with CAD. This will take 1-2 days to model. Then I manually model all the elements in minute and exactly detail. Finally, after all the work is done, I assess the coloring of the cabinets to see how I feel about green vs. chartreuse paint, on a high-end monitor typically used by radiologists to assess human disease. Some people ask why not just hold a color ribbon up to it to get an idea, I say that's a waste of time, not enough.
Yeah, people underestimate the value of “finished” software: in an ecosystem with lots of stable dependencies, there’s very little reason for useful software to change constantly.
Even "finished" software needs maintenance. Nothing is ever bug-free so needs fixes. And it doesn't live in a vacuum, the ecosystem evolves and continuous adjustments are needed when APIs evolve or libraries change.
In well-written software, the maintenance burden is low, but it's not zero. Without any maintenance, you can maybe run some piece of software in some closed-off container for a while, but it will keep rotting away and eventually you won't even be able to compile it anymore.
What about "GNU Hello", never finished? Clearly this isn't true for 100% of all software, so the only thing we can conclude is that it either "depends" and/or is very subjective.
> when APIs evolve or libraries change.
If you live/work inside an ecosystem that favor stability over "evolving APIs", you can actually be able to use libraries that are decades old, that doesn't have any bugs for the stuff they expose and things just work. I mostly experience this in the Clojure ecosystem, but I'm sure it's true for other ecosystems too.
Does "small burst of activity and dependency updates twice a year" seem inadequate to you? That's the scale of maintenance that the project in question seems to exhibit, which is what we're apparently calling not maintained.
Time goes by fast. It's interesting to think how authors son is now 20 as well.
Another interesting thing is little popup form at the end of post asking me if my opinion of Google changed for the better after reading the post. I mean maybe a bit, b the form definitely knocked the score back down.
From a quick visit to his profile (linked website), he is a physicist. This technology setup is very complicated and against the eternal usage of blackboard in a typical physics department. And to be honest this applies to his suggestion as well but you still at least get the feeling on writing on a board.
You also need the skill of lightning-fast LaTeX typing, and the skill of drawing and drafting with a speed comparable to that of a chalk. You need a canvas-driven tool for that, and your eyes would be on the screen for long periods of time, not contacting the audience.
There are regular white/blackboards that you write on with regular marker that just has a tracker on it, so content appears on the canvas on screen for those who are remote. More advanced versions also have laser projector that can project animations, moving diagrams and text on the same board. My suggestion is to tap the board on the place he wants to write and just type it on regular keyboard, hardly a distraction!
FUSE does local filesystems, and there are also HTTP remote
VFS for sqlite.
sqlite-wasm-http is based on phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs, "a read-only HTTP-Range-request based virtual file system for SQLite. It allows hosting an SQLite database on a static file hoster and querying that database from the browser without fully downloading it." "but uses the new official SQLite WASM distribution." [1][2]
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