Comment on Blender 5.2: Coming Soon With Improved Simulations by paulvdh

In reply to Iman.

Yes, Neogeo, and it started in 1994. The "Free Blender" campaign was in 2002 and collected (over) EUR 100k in donations. More about Blender's history in:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

I once tried to use Blender. Spent a bunch of free hours on it over the course of a few weeks. It's setup is very much "different" from most other software and it takes some getting used to. I was beginning to see the beauty of Blender and it's interface, but my main goal was technical drawings, and Blender really had to be forced into doing technical things. Because of that I did not go further with Blender, and later settled on FreeCAD, which has quite powerful sides, but is also still struggling to become a "good" program.

If back then there were already projects like cadsketcher.com I might have kept with Blender.