The other CAD software I use is 'DesignSpark Mechanical', and while it has some functional drawbacks and irritations, the direct modeling works fine there. Compared to this I found Nanocad (probably similar to AD Inventor and others) un-intuitive and cumbersome.
Nanocad, like Autocad, Inventor and seemingly all other CAD software relies on a sketch-oriented approach, typical for technicians and engineers with classical experience - always thinking in 'technische Zeichnung', 2D sketches with measurements etc.
As I dont have this background I found the Designspark approach right for me - you can always select any surface or facet and move, change, project, scale it. Downside is, there is no detailed history - you can undo steps, but only one after another, so any other (correct) changes are drawn back if you want ro revert an older (faulty) one.
So there are pros and cons of both approaches.
So, my wishes for Nanocad 21:
- Option for direct (3D) modeling of all surfaces, facets, objects etc.
- Secondly, a smoother rendering of 3D views would be fine (compare Designspark 5 with the 'WARP' renderer option).