When you're producing a physical item, Solidworks, or a solid geometry cad tool with CAE support is the best choice. I can't simulate the strength of a object or jewelry item with Rhino or evaluate how elastic a shoe needs to be, or any of that.

As the founder of Unlimit3d I already studied every single 3d modeling tool to see which is best for designers who make real objects, not just game assets, and arrived at this conclusion.

As a professional I would probably resell SW and Keyshot to people as a VAR or buy them to use for client modeling and rendering services.

For the open source community, I hope Blender's parametric mode and UI can get cleaned up and simplified with cleaner icons and tooltips that actually explain whats happening.

I think the Blender parametric mode should essentially become Libreworks. It may not do all the CAE but it should at least produce a clean solid geometry that can be exported to other open source CAE for example insight cae for cfd openfoam analysis.

Just like how we have Microsoft Office and Libre Office, we should have Solidworks and LibreWorks.

Libreworks would allow me to finally go full Linux as a 3d modeler, like I would as a software developer.

I once had a software dev interview and the dev judged me for having windows operating system, because they never did 3d modeling and saw no need for a developer to have windows -- they rightfully pointed out that it was a highly insecure operating system.

The issue is Solidworks isnt even made for any other operating system and Onshape is inaccessible without wifi.

Thus we need Libreworks in order for engineers to not have all their IP stolen or exposed.