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Will autodesk Propose to Buy mcneel Will mcneel Want to Do It or Will It Accept It?
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Good question 
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This has been discussed many times before. If McNeel wanted to sell out, it would have been a done deal a long time ago. But fortunately for all of us, the answer is no. End of story.
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Yes, I hope that doesn’t happen
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I agree and hope as well that does not happen. The personal level experience with Rhino that I have enjoyed since downloading the free beta back in the 90’s has been a joy. Is there something we as Rhino users need? We can find it daily right here. Is Rhino perfect? I don’t know but I sure have done well with Rhino and enjoy the fact that it’s layout and tools was something I fell in line with immediately. Rhino is the most natural of 3D programs that I’ve ever tried. Autodesk would know the heck out of Rhino and I’d have to look elsewhere.
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May God help us! They would destroy this amazing software…
I’d probably go back to making everything by hand.
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Do you have any links available for reference? Rhino is a perfect platform for architects, who want to escape autodesk’s walled garden, but can’t yet use blenderbim. Still though it’s a proprietary software, so the phantom of a sell out will always menacingly loom over the users 
The only reason Autodesk would want Rhino is to shut it down. We embrace being nimble and responsive to users, selling the software vs renting it out & being a platform that allows the seeds of innovation to grow.
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Sadly true 
Autodesk always kill softwares, if they buy anything that means its end.
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What about PowerMill? It’s still around. What about Camplete? It’s still around. What about FeatureCAM? It’s still around. The idea that Autodesk kills everything it acquires is simply not true. Yeah, we know what happened to T-splines and VSR, and that impacted us Rhino users, but they don’t kill everything they acquire.
Nope, they cherry-pick the best parts and integrate them into Fusion… 
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That’s true in a lot of cases. I wouldn’t be surprised if Camplete ends up in Fusion eventually. But PowerMill isn’t going away in the foreseeable future. We are in the midst of switching from WorkNC to PowerMill right now, and Autodesk has addressed the future of PowerMill with us. It’s not going to disappear. Interestingly though, you subscribe to “Fusion 360 with PowerMill” not just PowerMill. So this subscription is really for two products. Fusion 360 with the machining extensions fully open, and PowerMill. Not a bad thing, IMHO.
what about delcam artcam ? And delcam Powershape? delcam dental ?
And delcam crispin ?
Autodesk is only developing powermill.
I moved to Rhino when Autodesk acquired Delcam. I was using Powershape + artcam.
I have PowerShape 2023 installed.
How much it’s being developed I couldn’t say. I don’t know about the others. But my point was that Autodesk doesn’t kill off everything they acquire. Most… yeah, I’d agree with that. 
There has been no development since the 2018 release, only the version number and logo have changed, while delcam has two releases every year, R1 and R2.
current sale price is 900 billion billion dollars.
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I’ll take two.
-Pascal
I still have faith in humanity until Elon decides to do so, it is going to be a while.
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