Autodesk 123D (2011 - 2017)

autodesk sells CAD by the seat to people whose employer signs the purchase order. 123d was the opposite of that, a free suite aimed at anyone with a 3d printer and a saturday, and for six years it was the easiest way into modeling that existed. it could turn a ring of phone photos into a mesh and slice a model into cardboard sheets. autodesk shut the whole thing down on 31 march 2017, said it was…