There’s also the fact that Autodesk say they need to recoup the costs of that computation. (It’s unlikely to be made available in Fusion Educational licenses.)

The issue is that this is going to restrict experimentation - experimentation that’s vital in both an industrial and an educational context.

Autodesk’s Generative Design tools run in the cloud, its rationalization being that it needs parallel computation and it needs collaboration.

With the 9.0 release, solidThinking became Evolve and solidThinking Inspired became Inspire, both sold under the solidThinking brand.On Twitter, DEVELOP3D co-founder Al Dean explains why it is a mistake for Autodesk to limit running its generative design software on a cloud service: SolidThinking version 8.0 and solidThinking Inspired 8.0, introducing the morphogenesis form-generation technology, were released in September 2009. Today all releases of solidThinking are simultaneously developed for both Windows and Mac OS X. One year later solidThinking for Mac OS X was also released. The Construction History and an extensive NURBS modeling toolset were the main additions. The design software was originally developed for NEXTSTEP, the operating system developed by NeXT, and it was soon awarded as the best new application in the 'CAD and 3D' category at NeXTWORLD EXPO held in San Francisco in June 1993.Ī complete re-write of the application for the Windows platform was completed in 1998 with the release of solidThinking 3.0 for Windows. SolidThinking is a software company developing Evolve, a 3D modeling and rendering software and Inspire, a concept generation tool.īrothers Alex Mazzardo and Mario Mazzardo started the solidThinking project in 1991 with Guido Quaroni, today Vice President of Software R&D at Pixar Animation Studios.

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