MP 7,1 What 'interesting' app have you used lately on your 7.1?

[OkiRun]

I'm interested to know about unique apps that 7.1 owners have used; regardless of field and if they worked or didn't work.

My office has contracted on a film project that the stupid director has nearly 200 cuts, the boom mic operator doesn't know how to stand still, and the actors don't know how to maintain voice volume levels! What a mess.

I'm not spending thousands for an audio production house to fix this and there is no time and no budget. So we downloaded ERA 4 Voice Leveler. Made a compound audio clip. Applied the ERA and leveled as best we could. Sent the project out. For a cheap app, it did fine. Downloaded easily and no issues with what it was supposed to do. Sometimes grunt work with a cheap app is all you can do.

What unique apps have you used lately? How did it go?

 

[straightMacin]

I’ve been using Autodesk Fusion360 for CAD. I was previously a fairly heavy Solidworks user and have really been wanting a comparable experience that runs natively on the Mac. This app has been outstanding for me. I do wish they supported multiple monitors though.

 

[Krevnik]

I’ve been using Autodesk Fusion360 for CAD. I was previously a fairly heavy Solidworks user and have really been wanting a comparable experience that runs natively on the Mac. This app has been outstanding for me. I do wish they supported multiple monitors though.

I'll be honest, I wish Autodesk didn't drop such crusty software on folks. It's a trip working with it for creating prototypes for my 3D printer to spit out. Either there is no keyboard modifier that temporarily puts you in the orbit or pan tools, or I can't find it. Also, the "hovering" UI elements that lag behind the main window are hilariously crusty.

It does the job, and it's free, but boy do I not have a fun time working with it. It feels like it actively tries to get in my way half the time. Especially because it seems built to add clicks to the UI rather than provide keyboard shortcuts.

Meanwhile, I've been playing with Shapr3D in free mode on my iPad, and holy crud does it make the first passes of a design super fast. It nails the experience perfectly (for me anyways), and I can kick out 3-4 variations of a simple design on it in the time that it took me to do one in Fusion. If only there was a paid tier on it between "free, but with crippled export" and "you make your living here, so we want a cut of your revenue". I can get Lightroom + Photoshop CC for less per year.

 

[straightMacin]

I'll be honest, I wish Autodesk didn't drop such crusty software on folks. It's a trip working with it for creating prototypes for my 3D printer to spit out. Either there is no keyboard modifier that temporarily puts you in the orbit or pan tools, or I can't find it. Also, the "hovering" UI elements that lag behind the main window are hilariously crusty.

It does the job, and it's free, but boy do I not have a fun time working with it. It feels like it actively tries to get in my way half the time. Especially because it seems built to add clicks to the UI rather than provide keyboard shortcuts.

Meanwhile, I've been playing with Shapr3D in free mode on my iPad, and holy crud does it make the first passes of a design super fast. It nails the experience perfectly (for me anyways), and I can kick out 3-4 variations of a simple design on it in the time that it took me to do one in Fusion. If only there was a paid tier on it between "free, but with crippled export" and "you make your living here, so we want a cut of your revenue". I can get Lightroom + Photoshop CC for less per year.

Hold Shift and press middle mouse button to enter orbit mode in Fusion.

Ill have to checkout Shapr3D, CAD on the Pad seems like it would be quite nice and convenient.