Comment by geor9e
2 months ago
That's what they would have said about drafting tools in the 1880s, command line AutoCAD in the 1980s. Try to imagine the 2080s, or the most visionary sci-fi movie about that future - one of those movies where people look back and says "wow they were close!". Suppose a character wanted to get an idea for a three-dimensional form from their brain onto some medium. They're not going to be clicking a plane, clicking sketch, clicking some lines, tapping the dimension hotkey, twisting their spacemouse a bit with their left hand, clicking extrude, dragging, tapping into their numpad the height, etc etc. We use the clunky interface of our age.
Perhaps, but the hard part about CAD to me isn’t the interference, but rather the specification of the geometries and the dependency structure. That’s the hard part that’s hiding in the background. It’s kind of like getting stuck on the syntax of a programming language instead of being worried about the semantics