Autodesk can just die at this point.
It's an anti-customer, anti-industry, anti-everyone succubus riding on tired legacy trash and incompetent court rulings that allow it (and other corporations) to steal from customers and creators of all kinds... even musicians.
That's why I took over the abandoned LibreDWG and revived it. The format must be freed. I was there since the 90ies.
I was there '90s-2000ish.
Meanwhile, kudos to you for working on LibreDWG. I use FreeCAD quite a bit; do you think your work will be incorporated there?
They changed their license, so probably yes. But so far they don't support that many objects, so their old solution is good enough, still.
Unfortunately, they have a monopoly on architectural, CAD, and BIM software with AutoCAD and Revit. You’re completely locked in with no choice, everyone uses it so you must also use it.
Trimble isn’t far behind in the ‘shitty and expensive construction software’ market, but they aren’t as ingrained as Autodesk.
I’m not familiar with Autodesk in other industries but I assume it’s just as bad as their AEC software offerings.
They're as bad as they can be; it's just that in others there's at least some competition.
- former employee