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  • I love programs like freecad despite the really hard/unintuitive gui. 95% of all the modelling i need to do (as an amateur) can be done easily in a python script.

    The finishing touches like adding filets and chamfers are the annoying part were gui is easier, due to the way edges are referenced.

    Likewise at work, we have to produce a lot of regular reports in excel. All done via python / sql.






  • you’re not alone. Ours did that about 3 years ago. Still fucked.

    and now they’re gladly moving more and more business critical data into things like ms dynamics, or ms reporting databases into fabric.

    We cant even acess half of our own workflow data because of not having enough the right dynamics licenses.

    Yes a fucking shared excel file with a task log linking to local network folders was better. It was our fucking data , our data model and our fucking filing system. and all the staff knew how too use it. so much more time was spent actually doing work. we ever used to haveto trawl through version histories looking for the magic file version that would not flip to 0kb as soon as you open it. And we used to have fucking locale timestamps, not random bullshit cloud-o’clock, and dumbfuck US mm/dd/yyyy sorted in literal order bullshit.

    fuck ms, and fuck my employer for keeping on paying them.