![]() ![]() There is a similar situation in the world of Pokemons. They would hire lawyers to overview the whole process, in case (once more, Halt and catch fire) without looking at what Fredo6 did, because they don’t want to be sued. they could just design it from scratch.Problem is, Fredo6 could then sue, and if they can prove it, they would get even more money (look at season 1 of Halt and Catch Fire, it’s mostly about that) They could simply look at the extension, retro-engeneer it, and BAM. This is why tech companies buy each other all the time, it’s quicker to buy a startup with the tech you need ![]() THey could simply buy the tool from Fredo6. There are three solutions ahead of them : Now, next dev meeting, Trimble says “yeah, good stuff, let’s put it in our standard SU” Let’s say tomorrow Fredo6 designs from scratch a brand new solution that will allow you to import PDFs as vector with layers as tags. In addition, there is a risk for companies like trimble to absorb outside solutions. General rule in computers and softwares, just because an individual can do something doesn’t mean a company can. Therefore Trimble cannot (anymore) include Google Map in the geo-localisation system. But Google doesn’t not support licencing google map to external companies. I mean, it used to work that way during the google years. it’s not brain surgery, I’m sure a dev could work something out of google earth and export straight from it into SU. I’m using Qcad, the free version had DXF only, the paid opens DWG, part of the fee pays for the licence.įinally, you’ll find the same idea with google map. But DWG are proprietary files, and therefore, you can’t just open them as you want. you’ll find a lot of free CAD programs that can open DXF, the free version of a 2Dcad file. We had several export formats, and now we have only mp4, because of licensing fees (that was the consensus at the time)Īutodesk has the same system with DWG. Same thing happened a few years ago with video export. or at least, can’t unless trimble pays a shitload of money. So a random developer can take one of these tools, fork it a bit, make it work, and release an extension.īut a sketchup developer can’t. some will allow you to use them as long as you make no money reselling it. There are tools existing out there on the web to do that.
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