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agreed!

take a look at https://Plasticity.xyz. It's not open-source, but it's got a small, highly dedicated team behind it. It's built on Solidworks' kernel, so it's quite robust.

Also take a look at solverspace, caligula, FreeCAD, ...

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* Node-locked (up to 2 machines)

Hard nope.

Reading the FAQ it doesn't seem to bad. The Indie license allows you to run it simultaneously on 2 machines and the Studio license increases that to 4. You can transfer installations to new computers (or the same computer if doing a reinstall) up to 10 times per year, so you're not locked in to those 2 specific computers for eternity.

Restrictions are always annoying but I think they're striking a reasonable balance.

The upgrade license pretty spendy at $175.

But a permanent license… that more than makes up for the node locked. I don’t have more than two machines I want to edit things like this on anyway. And even if I did I think it’s like 200$, which is like 1/6th of a month of Onshape.

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