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I'm Kai, one of the founders of Tinkercad. If anyone has questions I'm happy to answer here.
by kaib 13y ago
I'm Kai, one of the founders of Tinkercad. If anyone has questions I'm happy to answer here.
- nraynaud 13y agoIt seems like tinkercad.com is dead, I am wrong?
- kaib 13y agoWe did a quick deploy to fix one account class that hadn't been moved to the new free plan. The site is back up again. Edit: The site was down for 3 min and 32 s.
- jtagen 13y agoMight still have problems with some accounts? I'm a former paid user, cancelled when you announced and I started teaching myself competing software. I still get a "your account is suspended" instead of access under the free plan.
- kaib 13y agoCan you please mail team@tinkercad.com with your login email and we will look into it. Sounds like a bug.
- iancarroll 13y agoIs AutoCAD going to offer a way to print to TinkerCAD?
- kaib 13y agoAre you talking about exporting model data or doing 3D printing from within AutoCAD?
- iancarroll 13y agoA print to tinkercad button that would offer printing in-app.
- kaib 13y agoI'm not privy to the AutoCAD roadmap but I would expect them to integrate with the consumer apps first.
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- chubot 13y agoWhat's happening to Airstone? Is the team now back working on Tinkercad instead?
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- kaib 13y agoAutodesk engineering will take over all Tinkercad development. We are working on transitioning everything over, Autodesk has built a very strong and dedicated team to support Tinkercad. Airstone development will continue as before.
- iancarroll 13y agoOops, didn't see your post. Deleting mine :)
- kaib 13y agoThis was a pure asset deal, no personnel moved to Autodesk. The team will continue working full time on Airstone.
- carterschonwald 13y agoCould you elaborate on the HPC elements of what you're doing? I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the simulation/modeling tooling ecosystem (beyond a fuzzy "mix of computational geometry, physics and numerical computing probably happens here" view point). What are some good starting points for understanding the landscape of such tools? Context: I'm a few months away from rolling out (from my company, Wellposed) some pretty interesting HPC grade numerical computing products/tools and it seems like the simulation/modelling ecosystem might be one segment that might find my Wellposed tools intriguing.
- kaib 13y agoI think we might have something out of interest for Wellposed. Fire me an email at kai@airstonelabs.com and lets talk more.
- davyjones 13y agoI don't have any questions per se but I was genuinely sorry when I heard TinkerCAD was shutting down. Very glad to know you guys have revived the project.
- bhouston 13y agoAny word on the price of the assets in terms of figures?
- kaib 13y agoDeal terms were not disclosed. That said Airstone is planning to fund development using the acquired funds.
- dirtyaura 13y agoCongrats Kai and team. Interested to know how this happened. Did you shopped Tinkercad before closing it down and Autocad approached only after shutdown?
- kaib 13y agoThe short answer is no, we only started selling the assets three weeks ago, a few months after announcing the shutdown. The longer answer is that selling part of your business while continuing in a business that is in any way related is usually very challenging from a legal standpoint. The lawyers call it the "spaghetti effect", basically the IP tends to be really tangled. We had serendipitous developments a few weeks back in how Airstone is built which let us create a hermetic barrier between the Airstone and Tinkercad IP's. Before that happened we had no way of selling the IP without taking an unacceptable risk.
- dirtyaura 13y agoKai, thanks for the straight answer, this is very educational. I hadn't thought about spaghetti effect ever before.