Back in school pdfs would circulate that had a bunch of flash games on them. I have no idea how or who made them, but they let us play dolphin olympics on lab computers with no internet connection.
Excel for games and PowerPoint for stick animations. You'd spend hours in CAD class just creating PowerPoint animations and not doing any CAD.
I regret this decision now and wish that I had paid some attention. 3D printers are cool and I have no idea how to design objects for it.
>> I do wish I did pay some attention to CAD now. I want a 3D printer and have no idea how to design objects for it.
Get Solvespace: https://solvespace.com/index.pl
Do the tutorials. If/when you outgrow it, the concepts will carry over to FreeCAD which otherwise has a steeper learning curve but has more capabilities.
An aside, but I found FreeCAD to be a real pain. The dependency tracking across sketches is really quite horrid. If I have sketch2 linked to sketch1, and I delete a line in sketch1, it will arbitrarily reassign all the sketch2->sketch1 dependencies. Maybe they fixed that since I've used it, but I've transferred over to Onshape for all my hobby stuff...
EDIT: looks like they finally addressed the topological naming problem, I guess I better give it a second chance!
Solvespace handles topological naming almost flawlessly. Even in a repeat group, the first and last copies of a sketch are "named" first and last rather than given a number. This is because constraints are often applied to those copies. This way they won't break if you go back and change the number of copies.
I'm not sure, but I think it may have been that Adobe Viewer (or whatever it was) could run Flash?
Maybe, but PDF can contain Flash Applets, too.
However, modern version of Acrobat Reader do not support that anymore. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/flash-format-support-in-p...:
“Flash Player end-of-life (EOL) impacts playback and authoring of rich media having Flash content (.flv and .swf) in PDFs:
• Playback of Flash media (.flv and .swf) content in existing PDFs will not be supported.”