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You kind of can. What Autodesk charges per year for paid version of Fusion360 I feel is fair, the problem is the lock-in and that your files can be held hostage if you do not pay them every year. FreeCAD looks good except it doesn’t have Fusion 360’s hand-holding camera movement and color scheme is terrible. As they move away from well featured free options too it makes paying for one of their competitors software using a business model you prefer much more palatable. Thanks Autodesk, I’ll be sure to never recommend Fusion 360 to anybody. Fusion 331 Explore the 331. They thought they could earn easy money from all existing users, but most of us left like rats on a sinking ship (whilst keeping our older versions that still work! There are a LOT of great new features like fillet weighting, part-level revision milestones, PCB hole placement via references, and more but our favorite is the ability to create text on a path (an arc, spline, circle, etc.) Not my experience at all. Of course, a sufficiently “motivated” (funded or connected) party could easily get a court to interpret the law anyway they wish, but that’s an entirely different matter. You can still export DXF from sketches. I’ve had a MUCH faster learning curve with OpenSCAD than I’ve had with ANY mouse-based CAD software. I’ve had to go through a few (thankfully small) hoops to run it on Win10 but run it does, done a thousand drawings or more with it so far. Saving .f3d file offline is meaningless as Fusion has no real file format. With the latest Autodesk Fusion 360 May 2020 update, electronic libraries that are created or edited in Fusion 360 can be converted into a managed library, allowing Eagle and Fusion 360 users to access common libraries. But it suits the needs of a minority of people compared to how most naturally create physical objects. Give you the taste for free to get you hooked, then jack it up. It’s already useful in hobby shop and has some of quite advanced features, but we are looking for developers to push it even further… Especialy the UI and visualisation renderer needs vast improvements, since the python is slow. Works quite well and very little bullshit. I get your sentiment. Hows that for resale value? Really ATC isnt even present on DIY machines under 7k. Fusion 360 for personal use is a limited version that includes basic functionality, free for 1-year for non-commercial use. Yes, maybe you learned to use a software that will get some restrictions in the future. Realy? “I was never interested in learning to script models together. LEARN THE LESSON. I’m sad, a little frustrated, but it is what it is. You’re welcome for all the thought I put into suggestions for your product. Fusion360 being free is absurdly good value. I don’t need free, there is value here, but even $500/year (Fusion 360) is beyond the practical reach of hobbyists. Though having DXF out can have legit home use. “How much is your patience worth?” A pro version is available if you ever need it which has sheet metal and other things for $2K. The cloud is nothing but selective digital fiefdom for those with gullibility to trust a stranger’s storage, Selling people stuff that they can’t keep was the mantra of *every* strategic marketing course I attended since the late 90s. Also these things have re-sell value, unlike software. And 25% of its customers as “super heavy users” those who frequent the chain three to five times per week. That’s it. – 3D works quiet nice – I also use Altium for work, but personal projects I can recommend Kicad, Just get DipTrace, it’s better. Not everyone who uses it for their day job can justify the cost. That is just about the last thing that needs to happen. That current version is now yours, to keep forever. Lifetime license. Beginning September 14, 2020, Autodesk is adding PowerMill, PowerShape, and PowerInspect to the Fusion 360 family of solutions. Designers all over Europe use 2020 Fusion to create beautiful spaces for their clients. Install it from openscad.org and I am now going to give you two complete worked example lessons. Pushing people into renting/leasing and draining the 2nd hand market at the same time is the reason why you can’t “buy” a complete electric car (you are “renting” the battery – at a high monthly cost, at least in the EU), why LEGO bought BrickLink (to control the 2nd hand market) or why Volvo is trying to sell you “mobility” instead of a real car… If we don’t say NO to such bullcrap now, we will soon live in a society where private people can’t afford basic raw materials any more (the EU is heading in that direction at breakneck speed BTW…), where repairing becomes illegal (“to save the planet”) and where selling used stuff is effectively banned “because of safety reasons”…. It combines industrial and mechanical design, simulation, collaboration, and machining in a single package. Same. The word “intuitive” is thrown around a lot, but I thinknit is appropriate here. There’s a YouTube channel, Joko Engineering, that has many tutorials for FreeCAD, just because of this. You’re still on the hook for older software, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and start over. I’ve been and am both a professional and personal user of their software, but I cant jibe the hostage model so many software companies have “evolved” to. Thanks Autodesk for helping me to find Kicad instead of Eagle. I used DesignSpark Mechanical a lot and really liked it. Perfectly happy to pay for innovation. But if the software is open then there could be hosting providers just like there are today for websites. I mean, they can claim it is so, but I don’t think that would hold under any law in any country of the world. That may be a reach, but judging by the reaction of the Fusion 360 community to the announced changes to the personal use license, they’re pretty much hating life right now. The worst is what happened with Eagle. Don’t forget that AutoCAD was so expensive back in the day that even profitable companies found it expensive. The big problem with the constantly evolving Fusion- and I have discussed this with AD engineers several times over the last 7 years or so- is that the existing incomplete features stay incomplete, bugs don’t get fixed, yet new features are added with new bugs. It’s not worth paying a cent for this privilege. Solid Edge is easy-to-learn and easy-to-use, which makes it a perfect fit for self-taught learners, including makers and hobbyists practicing their craft. You can only run one tool through the post processor at a time. Tried switching to F360 fr modeling but can’t stand the interface compare tot Inventor. About 8, 16 and 20 years for the ones I could think of quickly. The other feature missing was extruding text – simple in Fusion, a messy hack in DSM. We use Fusion for CAM for our CNC lathe and that’s it. Solidworks education edition is free to download for members of Experimental Aircraft Association: Wow. (Maybe like the X3G that some printers use. That stops anyone producing new services – by nature they can neither be regulated or standardised. If someone pays you they get to choose what you work on. FreeCAD is really the only option that comes close. Kicad is adopted by CERN, libreoffice is adopted by many governmental organizations. Finally to any developers out there for any of this software- stop discounting the value of an intuitive and easy to learn user interface for your super awesome program. and then when they did they half-assed it. Get in touch and we'll be there to help. There are some frustrating limitations, like full 3d profiling can be difficult and it’s hard to do things like only 3d profile a small portion of an overall part. I guess this will be the right edition for most people here: ‘Whether you’re an engineer solving problems off the clock, or a maker looking to expand your skill set Solid Edge can help you turn your idea into a reality. Fusion 360 is a much newer program than Inventor, as Inventor has been on the market for over 20 years and Fusion 360 was released in 2013. Would you be willing to pay $5000 for a copy? Sadly Design Spark Mechanical doesn’t let you export to STEP. I am OK with saving my files locally, I never wanted to store them on the cloud in the first place. This has to be the most softball apologetic take on a blatantly anti-consumer, anti-community move by Autodesk. I assume that the protocol in the USB or Ethernet interface is something intermediate between the two. I am feeling a bit smug right now anyway, back in 2016 I looked for free cad software and there were alot of results for Autodesk’s offerings. Most of the problems I’ve seen people report have been related to GPU access (ie: the pass-through issue I *specifically* mentioned in my first post). I’m a Linux user and the only thing noone except people like FreeCAD have done has been to create a seriois version of these softwares not tied to Windows, that can actually run outside that ecosystem. Not that it matters in this context because it won’t work without a license and the data all passes through the cloud, but Fusion itself is a standalone app that can work offline. Just like democracy- FOSS depends on participation of people to work. ^ This. To their credit, Autodesk is offering a steep discount on the commercial license right now, which might take some of the sting out of the changes.”. I am not an expert, but this is just crap! I’m in one of the last few purchasable versions of Adobe creative suite. Congratulations, you have now done parametric CAD modelling. DSM allowed exporting a single component at a time, losing any hope of recreating relative positions of each part. It appears as if a hobbyist selling a few things on Etsy should spend 50% of their side-income on software. That said, it has no built in CAM tools, which sucks. Of course most users don’t want to run their own hosting. 430. CNCJS is great. There is also a community edition available which I did not about before: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/solid-edge/en_us/free-software/community. If will be support for DSM v4 disabled like for DSM v1.1 / v2 – licence server will be turned off you will be not able open program (DSM) David Fitton from Mill Town Kitchens & Interiors, 360° Panoramas Category 2019 This allowed a single export, conversion and import. I bought Eagle from CADSoft, was very ticked off when Autodesk bought them, that was only ever going to go one way. Since when? I’m grateful that Rhino hasn’t followed the subscription trend. Autosketch. I’ve worked with Autodesk software for 20 years and know how they run their “ship.” I happily paid big bucks for SolidWorks rather than get involved with that bait-and-switch game. And it seems that the export feature is rather prone to produce corrupted files. I even “Sailed the high seas” found a copy of SolidWorks 2017 and was trying to grind through the non-existant tutorials because it had integration with MasterCam. 20mm of Fusion 360 2020 T-Slot. Much as I never liked the business model when it was first free to use it was really the only good choice unless you like openscad (which is great but requires a very specific way of thinking) for free access. But really the main pain points for me are lack of simulations and 10 active drawings. Still not sure about Fusion 360? Even in 2020 (ugh…), there is no free lunch. No CAM, but everything else I needed up until now is there. Srinath Jonnalagadda, VP, Business Strategy & Marketing – Design and Manufacturing, will be speaking about this today during Autodesk’s virtual Advanced Manufacturing Summit, and we’ve shared an overview of the reasons for this evolution on … Or do you just wipe your brain as soon as they change some feature availability or access to the software? Remember when Twitter allowed third party clients, offered companies “fire hose” feeds, etc? QED. Cost me maybe $79 and I’m still using it after 15 years. Try check SprintLayouts v6 it cost only $50 and its much more intuitive and has many other features. Weather is fair and sailing is smooth at the pirate bay…. They will yet again, just like with Eagle, fail this cunning plan. Anyone use DSM and 360 who can compare them for us? When I tried using the text, I had disconnected the monitors. After I restarted Fusion 360, the text window started coming up. Whats the problem? Don’t think anyone thinks of it as a backup. Or, something odd has happened. They promised to never remove features from the entry tier. Elegance needs to mesh with intelligence more often. As it is I use it a handful of times a YEAR for CNC CAM for our lathe. I’ll take a “real” program, thanks.”, I was 13 years old. At least OSHPark still takes my older Eagle files direct. It has a decent tool library handler that can import/export from linuxcnc (and presumably other libraries.) It just seemed… clunky. Evangelism is contribution too when you can’t code. There’s some on youtube, but a good user base of video instructables would go a long way towards evangelizing the awesome software you guys have created. Keep the program itself local. Much of it seems to be rent-seeking. I’ll repeat what I left on another site about this: I’m going to get blasted for this, but most of the functionality they are removing I was surprised to see in a “personal” edition. Who’d want to use THAT when it’s obviously not set up for power users like me?” Every once in a while I manage to get two of them in an argument with each other about their respective assumptions, and that’s always a good time. Mach3 converts G-Code commands to step/dir controls, while bCNC just sends them over to GRBL. All that work done by hobbyists, for free, helping Autodesk dominate the market in low-end CAD/CAM software. – The number of editable documents. VM overhead pretty minimal these days with GPU pass-through being the only thing even a novice should struggle with. Here are the best answers to the question: Is there a free full version? FreeCAD, LibreCAD. Just so you know… if you right click on any body in the tree and use the “Save as STL” feature it saves it instantly locally and not through the cloud. Sorry- ignore above post. Personally, I don’t even look at the colors, I want to make 3D solids not look at purty pictures. Getting Started Check if you qualify for Fusion 360’s free Personal Use license. It’s just a shame there isn’t an hourly rate for access to the extra features for hobbyists. With FreeCAD it didn’t work that well. Beginners watch Fusion training videos to prepare for class projects, intermediate learners use them to build 3D design skills, and advanced students review them for a refresher. I think I am on the “startup” one, but then I seem to have 2.1 million cloud credits. Your day job can afford the SolidWorks license. I’m a subscriber to Autodesk Fusion 360 because it’s a powerful 3D modeling tool, and it gets better each and every month. Until THEY get smart and shut you out. Autodesk Fusion 360 – A look at what’s been added, from expansion of generative design, through machining, and into the realms of electronics design. For the pro version one must pay once and it includes free updates forever…, Autodesk makes plenty of money from the companies that use their products, especially 3DSMax, Maya and SolidWorks. Join us at https://github.com/vlachoudis/bCNC/. Thank you for this, I’ve liked the “idea” of openscad for years but never tried. And as shown multiple times, the cloud is just a way to get users locked in. Unfortunately my money has other things to do. Don’t get my hopes up that Autodesk finally decided to be somewhat, partially human and let people actually buy their software again. But not all projects accept funding. Try An MSDOS One, New Part Day: SD NAND Are Surface Mount Chips That Work Like An SD Card. Most everybody has migrated to some sort of subscription and I will not do that. Well, at the moment you can…. I _think_ that was Alibre, but the buy-outs and renames have confused the matter. Autodesk Fusion Crack is a cloud-based 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool for product design and development. I have a 3020 CNC machine that uses custom USB controller, it would be awesome to use it with bCNC…. You are paying over and over for a constantly evolving product. They did it before why would they not do it now? Personally I love my Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate version. Eh. We are developing bCNC, free opensource g-code sender for GRBL (and similar) with integrated CAM functionality (currently mostly 2D). Didn’t actually see very big improvements in changelog since then. What Autodesk has discovered is that THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. I use Fusion very occasionally, and only for hobby purposes. They wouldn’t open-source it in a million years, even though Autodesk earns no revenue from it. The only difference is upfront free is lower and maintenance is higher. In the past I just left my desktop running and my laptop was basically little more than a VNC client to me. Same story like Autodesk DSM is rebranded ANsys Direct Modeler with online licence server. Thanks for the training in 3d thinking. I am professionally trained in Inventor 2019, and for a short while I used Fusion 360. It can pocket and profile. DSM required you to name a file each time, not good and created a mess. I use Eagle 7 and it still does everything I need it to do. The subscription model lowers the barrier to entry and keeps you at the newest revision and feature set. Also has to be said Autodesk have put in lots of quality of life and manufacturing features to make it more than just a CAD package, which many of the other options I’m aware of don’t have. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases. But I don’t know enough about the internals of Mach or bCNC to know how much preprocessing Mach does to the G-code, nor what the intermediate stage in bCNC does. ProEngineer $9500 stripped down before they went Creo subscription…. I’d pay once to buy a valid perpetual licence of Inventor if I could get one, but they stopped doing that years ago. Oh Boy, Then next year both SolidWorks and MasterCAM they threw EVERYTHING out into the dumpster because it was close to impossible to get anything working right. Something like Solidworks and AutoCAD Inventor? And that, my children, is how you monetize the cloud. Yeah. – export options: this one I disagree with them, the basic ones should be kept. Comparison Chart for Best Laptops for Fusion 360 Reviews 2020. If you insist on “real” programs, though, you have to pay “real” money. So if you really must run that exact software rather than the opensource alternative (which almost certainly exists) give it a go when you have some time and patience. And you can export it into many generic CAD formats that are easy to use in every other tool (.step or .iges, .stl…). To those who tried Freecad a few years ago and gave up: it’s much better now and I encourage you to try it again. And they work great on a $200 CNC without a toolchanger. Especially in the FOSS community. Frankly I had the same issue with paid software licenses that goes rot once windows version changed (please buy maintenance!) Just contribute if you can, do your part if you can, or upload videos on how to use your favorite software. Been bitten by Alibre, and badly, stay away from them. I’ll let my laptop be my ‘portable’ device that has all I need on it to work ‘away’ from my ‘local’ workstation. None of these changes accomplish anything more than putting me into an anti-Autodesk camp. If I could run some things through VM, I would, so I wouldn’t have to do annoying dualboots. That alone is enough to keep me using the latter. I mean granted it was AutoCAD 1.0 but that alone turned me off to AutoDesk. Did you try import DSM v1 project to DSM v4? This is why you don’t trust companies with subscription business models. As BrightBlueJim said, I’m not going to pay rent for a software that ***holds my work hostage***. “Let’s maybe not dump on the ideas of “The Cloud” or at least browser based software entirely.”. Agree with your sentiments about Fusion – I would love to give it a go but there’s NO WAY I am going to have my hard work beholden to the cloud. Posted on March 2, 2020. at November 9, 2020. by Al Dean. I refuse to have my designs held hostage at a company’s whim on a cloud. I figured this was too good to last when they introduced it. Got a question? It’s pretty much derived from “normal” professional licencing: a upfront fee (licence buy) then maintenance every years to bump version. There is no debate about whether his branch with topo fix and A3 will be merged, it’s planned for rev 0.20, The UI works pretty well – which is what matters, although it may not be as pretty as F360. In opposition, I am in the business of not spending money and consuming as little as possible, and I encourage others to do similarly. It’s a big treadmill. There is no cloud. Is Blender better than whatever Autodesk offers? I’d like some more control over 3d clearance strategies. Solidworks was initially designed by Solidworks Corporation and … SolidWorks vs Fusion 360 | The Ultimate … I switched to (somewhat awful) KiCad just because Autodesk F**Ked the licensing up. I can imagine these as packages that can be installed via Cpanel just like WordPress, Joomla, etc.. today. I don’t have a problem paying real money. I hate Windows, and the only reason it exists in my house at all is because of 3d modeling and CAD/CAM software, which I and I suspect most if not all have not found a way to run in VM without actual Windows. Autodesk are making too much money from those people who are continuing to use Eagle commercially. I do have a problem paying real money over and over again to keep access to my work. As a corporate user of stuff like Inventor and SolidWorks and MasterCAM, the $ has to be there to justify the added features and support team that comes with that. =), Also BricsSYS CAD or SHAPE its not free but its real alternative to Autodesk good import/export compatibility and 3D is from v17-v19 quite good. Never great, but powerful and stable functionality for years. Modeling • Jan 19, 2020. Fusion 360 Mobile 2020: iOS, Android . Keyboard Shortcuts Learn the default keyboard shortcuts and create your own. They sold out and that was the end. Ill be gentle…how about a legit copy of Solidworks? For my next (home) pcb I decided to make the move to KiCad and I’m glad I did. Rhino is worth the price of admission. Select a panorama from the gallery below to open the immersive 360° experience in a new window. I paid $40 for my legit copy of solidworks…. There’s a hidden gotcha in .f3d files. Just other peoples computers (which you rent), Exactly. Not enough to figure out how to use blender, unless it’s improved a lot since last time I used it. Fusion 360 license offerings (2020) I do think the “Profit Threshold” amount assigned to the Personal Use license is what throws a lot of people off guard. Needless to say, I immediately shutdown, took a chance and loaded KUbuntu and I was off an running as I planned in the first place. Sigh, The changes bite, but DXF is not being removed. Yup. It’s great, I use Orcad at work, and used Altium back in when I was an university student. Generic CAD from Generic Software, another fallen to the evil Autodesk. Think of the tens of millions of man-hours that have been invested into forum posts helping users, developing plugins, courses, youtube videos, and makerspace workshops that could have instead gone into making open source tools like KiCAD, OpenSCAD, pycam, etc better. Yes, well, Autodesk doesn’t care about you, or all the hobbyists and other infrequent users in the world. Here we pay month to month license $500 for Eagle and $500 for fusion per year, then in the end of the year Autodesk sales person offer both for $500 ( that’s $250 per license ) if we pay the yearly license. I am doing only some simple 2D drawings but no complaints. Amazing renderings time after time. Id love it if these CAD companies offered a Pay 5 years up front and just own it option. you certainly want paid for your genius ideas don’t you? If it is just deleting G0 and M6 commands from the PP then that feels almost spiteful. I don’t mix personal and work accounts. You now have a complete STL model ready to slice and print. This is just a good example of why ‘not’ to having applications running in the cloud and your data in the cloud. Lack of DXF export, ATC, and rapid feed are some really questionable choices. People say this a lot, but it’s not particularly fair. Blender internally stores its models as meshes and is considered being a CSG-based surface modeler. I have started designing assembles in Fusion 360 using T-Slot, a lot of head scratching on how to make use of it at arbitrary lengths in my designs…. An this is why I don’t like software as a service, they can change it anytime and have your data to ransom. It can output to a variety of gcode dialects. IMO, Rhino is the real competition in this space. If your … Top 9 Best Laptops For Fusion 360 {Nov 2020… Eagle was bought up by Autodesk and soon thereafter received the Autodesk treatment by becoming a subscription only software, whilst jacking up the prices… That is why i would never use anything “cloud” or subscription based… Also i try to use as much FOSS as possible. Could you suggest some of these free alternatives? Not for you to constantly fiddle and add on new things I had no need for. Both ways. You just need to combine the files in a sequence in an external editor. Remember that. Solid edge student edition is available for free for self-education: https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/solutions/users/students/. I got fusion and used it a little but then deleted it. Or is there a clear winner between the two? Fund open source development so that it’s useful and attractive (octoprint is a good example) or pay for commercial products. If you're visiting from a mobile device such as a tablet or smartphone, simply move your device around to view the whole room! Hopefully we will regain some of it based on the recent Autodesk’s policy change and will be able to boost the development once again. AutoDesk: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/download-install/install-software/virtual-installation?st=virtual%20machine. Last time was 2-3 years ago. Tips & Tricks Find answers to FAQs and other helpful Fusion 360 tips and tricks. No thank you. 2020 Fusion automatically emails a 360° Panorama view link to your clients, and they can open it in any web browser or on their mobile devices and share it with friends and family! I’ve been describing as “like autoCAD, but fun!” to anyone not familiar. That’s why I switched to Fusion 360. “only 80$ a month” SolidWorks does offer a student license and I’ve heard they have an (unadvertised) hobbyist license. Heh, I’d only just started using fusion as there was a lot of open positivity for it, I guess it’s back to openscad. Even Microsoft OS…. I use Inventor Pro 2015 at work. Sure it’s old and has a few bugs but no other 2D CAD application I’ve tried has been as logical to operate for me as old QuickCAD. The whole idea of FOSS is that if you have the source code for the software YOU DEPEND ON, then at worst, you can pay someone to fix it when it breaks, even if the original developers have vanished from the face of the Earth. Beware of anything web based. I used to always get stuck where it would refuse to map a sketch to a certain face, or bevel a certain edge… Those issues seem to have gone away now. If you continue to pay the subscription… at the next 1 year mark, you lock in at that version. I do modeling in Inventor. Besides most of the factual good quality content seems to be on Youtube anyway where I can support the channels I want and not support with my free all the stuff I’m not interested in. I use Fusion maybe 5-6 times a year just for the CAM for the lathe. Get free extended access to all features and functionality until June 30, 2020. Pardon my French, but fuck subscriptions especially those THAT expensive. From what I recall, Autodesk bought the T-Splines plugin for Rhino and discontinued it, which seems typical of their MO. I had exactly the same question. How well are performance heavy applications, like CAD/CAM packages, doing in this way from your experience? 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