I participate in their Forums when I feel it's required, I teach other people to use it, and I pay the yearly fee (despite falling far under the "pay" threshold).
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after being a CAD and CAM user since about 1990, Fusion 360 is the first software where I felt I was a participant (albeit a very tiny one) in its development. As has been noted earlier in this thread - if a problem shows up in Fusion 360 that I can't solve, 9 times out of 10 I can Google it and have a written or video solution in 15 seconds. They have created what amounts to a GIGANTIC "tech support staff" that costs them nothing.
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truth be told, probably 80%+ of the work we did in that development shop could have been accomplished on Fusion360 (though it was still in its infancy back then).Īs far as the overall general picture of what Autodesk is doing with Fusion 360, I think it's a brilliant business model: They essentially make the software free to use for a huge number of users (starting with probably 90% of the people who have a cnc router in their garage), and make it very inexpensive for many others. haha! So we bought everything required.īut. The main reason for all the different software was that I hold to the adage: "The best CAD (or CAM) software in the world is the one you know". I was spending over $35K/year JUST on maintenance fees.
gear tooth profiles, etc.).īefore retirement, I managed a development shop for a large company, and we had a LOT of different software: SolidWorks, MasterCam, NX-complete, SurfCam, Esprit, CAMplete for posting to 5-axis, and one or two others. And 2) Fusion still does a poor job of handling 2d DXF imports that have a high number of elements (e.g. That seems to be significantly better in the last 2 updates.
So far, I've really only been able to muster two significant complaints: 1) for a while it seemed like the Mac version I use was a bit crash prone. Because of my little "niche", I have a ton of models (in their cloud obviously) and post a lot of programs.
I'm semi-retired, so consequently do mostly one-offs or reworks. I've been a Fusion 360 user for about 2 years.
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