It was a pleasure using it. I wanted to switch from Fusion to Ondsel and tried to learn it as an alternative.
Did you use Ondsel?
It is really sad to see them leave. They were one of the best open source citizens I know. We only have 1.0 today because of them (and many other contributors).
I was always sceptical about them having a valuable business model. And I thought they’d have bigger pockets. Becaue IMO FC/Ondsel is only now starting to get usable enough for anyone whose time is measured in $ per hour. Paying 1000 $ for a license is not much, if it saves your worker only 1 hour each week. Just yesterday I had troubles importing a step file into FC. Some worked two didn’t. Ondsel could import them. That’s when I read the sad news…
It was a cool project, but it never seemed like a good business model.
I reaaaly hoped they would have survived longer. I used it a few times and its a huge improvement to fc, and as far as I know the team contributed quite a lot to essential improvements to get fc to v1.0 Fc is still a difficult software to use, and I wished ondsel could continue to improve it in the correct direction. But well, maybe it will get better soon. I’m thankful for their work either way
I had tried FC a few times previously, and wasn’t able to make it work for me, but I’m actively using the newest release candidate now. I think it’s finally over the hump where a lot more people are going to start adopting it. That should fuel continued development.
