Good CAD programs

There’s some severe Stockholm syndrome going on with the command line in this thread… :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

I’ve used Alias for a decade, Solidworks for 20 years, NX for a couple of years and Rhino for a couple of years. I’m 110% convinced that if I would be given an option to hide and disable the command line in Rhino, and instead be able to map any tool of my desire to a single key, I’d work way faster than today.

One thing speaking against this advice is that I don’t belive you can be optimal in Alias without proper hands on training (or maybe that was just me… though then again, I began before there were Youtube people like for example this guy).

But speaking of working way faster, this Xform popup in Alias is what I mean by hyper efficient:

It’s so discouraging to see new tools from McNeel, like EdgeContinuity, RefitTrim and that new fillet thing in Rhino 8 get released as if nobody has done any UX testing or taken any feedback from a professional at all, and that so much low hanging fruit is still dangling and rotting away on so many tools. Rhino could be so much better yet it seems that (similar to Blender actually) if you want efficiency you have to look to plug-ins and user-developed tools.