What new features are necessary, which are possible, won't cost too much to introduce but will attract enough new buyer or upgrade attention to justify the spend and keep faith with supporters. We long-termers on this and TC forum are talking in an echo chamber, while the publishers and developers are faced with trying to find a viable commercial future in a changing marketplace, ie new features cost money. All of this is speculation pieced together from snippets that I've come across on TC forum and elsewhere, but I still work comfortably and profitably with Shark Pro V12 and TC together. However, IMSI's new ownership has reputedly outsourced some or all of SW development work to Pakistan or India, and I was pleased and reassured that some of the suggestions posted over the past couple of years have been introduced. Petersburg, Russia, and that country's adventures might have had a bearing on their ability to contribute now. Tim might also have new resources to call on - or not: TC was largely developed by SW development company in St. sat V32, however that fits into Spatial's naming regime. ACIS has also moved from version identification in numeric succession to annual identification, but for the moment, Shark Pro is using V26, TC Platinum 2022 will save to. I'm also reminded of when Apple abandoned PowerPC RISC for Intel processors with Rosetta for translation, at the time Tim spoke of binaries that didn't have to be redeveloped between Mac and PC, but now there are Windows ARM PCs that can run rewritten X86/X64, and when you think of the translators and particular ACIS routines that won't run on MacOS that might or might not be applicable in the new environment, I think that Tim might be very busy. He's obviously been busy because TurboCAD has given up LightWorks, which it's used since before the turn of the century, in favour of open-source LuxCoreRender, which obviously saves them the license cost, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the same is in store for PunchCAD. TurboCAD's owner, IMSI, bought PunchCAD and Tim is IMSI's Director of CAD. I use Shark Pro and TurboCAD Platinum because they each do things the other won't. TurboCAD Mac IS PunchCAD, change their file attachment and they open in VC and Shark, the other way too, and the thing about that that's interesting and useful to me is that model history and associations are carried they're not dumb solids.
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