Just spent 30 minutes with fusion 360 and after a short tutorial came to the conclusion that its not horrible.
Compared to what? Tooth extraction?
I’ve had to adjust my workflow quite a bit but it’s pretty good. Particularly when you can get it as a startup or hobby license.
I’m not sold on the cloud aspect though could see how it could appeal to some.
The collaboration features need some work, not near as comprehensive as Github or any of the Autodesk Vault products.
The feature with which I’m most displeased (or lack thereof) is the ability to reasonably work with other document formats. If you stay within the Fusion silo it’s fine, but working with other vendors that may use other formats or CAM that may use other formats can be problematic and still require other software for the conversions.
My other beef would be how misc hardware libraries are implemented. As in they really aren’t. Adding a part from McMaster-Carr is excellent but using them repeatedly requires either copy and paste work around or going back into the tool/MMC site (the tool is a pop up to the MMC site) and digging the part up.
I second the first comment,
I am into FreeCAD
but as an Linux user there is a limited choice.
Compared to fusion 360 two years ago. I’m a huge freecad fan and don’t see that changing in a hurry. However as more professional designers appear at my door with things like autocad ( Mondays question about how to export stl) thought it may be worth another look even if just to get insight into how it works.
I do use onShape for few months and love it, portability is great for me too - working on PC or laptop/ mobile anywhere is great.
For basic projects and opensource it is great, gets pricey (like others) for other use.
I will give fusion360 a chance with their trial some at time, but I am just hobbyist.
We use fusion 360 for all designs. Inventor for a few other things. The cam is really good. Price is right.
Since we don’t have a big toolchain, I can’t speak to that. But the collaboration is good and getting better still.
My opinion is that it is best value for both hobbyist and pros w simple toolchain.
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It’s just a non-starter for me on linux.
“Your operating system is not supported. Fusion 360 is supported on 64-bit Windows 7 or newer and 64-bit Mac OS X 10.9 or newer.”
Trying to move from Sketchup to Fusion 360 and it’s been a task. I find it really intuitive in some aspects and downright mindbendingly confusing in others. Simple tasks that should take seconds in sketchup can take me an hour to figure out in fusion (and I’ve watched a ton of tutorials), where some tasks that would take an age in sketchup take seconds in Fusion.
Ultimately I know deep down inside it’s the better route to take but man it’s a steep learning curve especially when you can only tackle it on the weekends. But Google is your friend and I’ve found that the things that confuse me, confuse many others so if I battle now, I just hit Google and generally I have an answer after a few minutes of reading
their training center and forum are exceptional.
Just don’t, under any circumstances, think that you can wing it, you can’t
the workflow is on another level. If something doesn’t work it generally means there’s a step in the chain you haven’t taken. A lot of stuff is not just a click away.
I didn’t like the cloud at 1st but it kinda works well when you have some spare time at work and you can just nip on to carry on some designing.
I’m trying to learn this myself (for the CAM mostly). I’ve watched a few tutorials, but could use a few more if anyone has suggestions.
I can see myself using it, but for now Freecad still rules. That distributor cap I posted took me just over an hour to draw. If I didn’t have the client here helping it would have been quicker. I suspect I would have been able to do a better drawing in Fusion but I’m splitting hairs. - The reason I say that is once you’re 20 cuts fillets and refines down the road and realise your hole is of by 0,5mm it can be a pain to fix it.