They offer a discount $150 for 3 years the $680 full price. 😞 it was bound to happen.
Typical Autodesk at work. First lure everyone and make the competition disappear as you can’t beat free. Now that everyone is used to this program and the competition is behind because they didn’t had a massive development budget, they can start to charge the insane prices
Hmmm… that page doesn’t mention the free “personal use” license for hobbyists.
https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal
^ This page still exists, and doesn’t mention it is going away, so maybe there is still hope.
The free personal portion was nerfed recently with only a limited of active designs available and other functions blocked or paywalled.
It limits you to 10 editable things at once and I think caps the number of components you can have. I haven’t found either of these very restrictive to my use cases as a home user/hobbiest. I hope the personal portion isn’t going away, will have to deal with migrating everything and learning new workflows 😭
10 project limit is in F360 for years now. Also who cares when you can save/open local files?
You can? How? I’ve fumbled around looking for this but always get the “you’re not connected to the internet”.
You can click export and save F3D file locally. Then you can delete it from the cloud and open a different file from your PC. I have dozens of the designs saved locally.
You can also mark designs as ready-only and they no longer count, so this limit is really 10 concurrently editable designs. I just keep everything read-only unless I’m actively working on it.
Yes. Also deleting a design puts it into a rubbish bin indefinitely and you can restore them at any time.
It works great for me. You push one button to make something read-only or not. There are very few functions that I care about that are blocked. I use it for design and even CAM on a CNC router.
And that probably won’t be the end.
Very happy (and after 2 years usage still extremely unskilled) with FreeCad.
FreeCAD is pretty much useless, it still doesn’t have basic modelling features like fillets, chamfers, etc.
This isn’t true? Fillets and chamfers are available in the PartDesign workbench.
Can you apply them to your drawings/sketches?
I’m not sure about chamfer (I haven’t used it in my sketches) but fillet is definitely included in the Sketcher workbench.
Must be a new feature, good to know.
Freecad not free as. Autocorrect got me again
Is free as a good enough replacement? I like fusion for the sculpting mode as well. I would rather go to an open source replacement though
Not sure about sculpting, but in terms of sketching I find it good but flawed.
Getting to grips with sketching and how you need to complete shapes, and using support lines is a learning curve.
However I find it quite rewarding and worth the time to learn.
I’m going to check it out again. It sounds more than decent for most things. Do you have any tutorials you learned from. The “learn fusion 360 in 30 days” is what I used to learn fusion
Not any that I found useful sadly :D, FreeCAD is mostly used by Engineers, so finding a coherent easy to understand tutorial isn’t easy. I got the gyst with trial and error and watching people use FreeCAD.
3 Lessions which makes FreeCAD flow make sense.
- In Part Design a Sketch Lives within a Body, so you create Body then Sketch
- The Sketches white lines needs to be complete, with no gaps. If you need to add structure (like adding a circle to a box), you can do so with construction geometry (blue lines)
- When a line turns green (or construction turns light blue, it’s constrained. Meaning it won’t move.
For me this was what allowed me to understand how to use FreeCAD well enough to replace Fusion. Everything from what I’ve used thus far, is based on this hierarchy and order of operation.
Thank you that helps
Freecad sucks. I use it exclusively and it sucks.
But it’s the only foss option and the only Linux option.
It’s so buggy that I really don’t see myself ever paying for it.
Same here. It still doesn’t feel optimized. Sure it works after restarting it 3 times.
I’ve moved away from free personal Fusion360 to OnShape and it suits my needs just fine. The free tier makes all my models public but I don’t mind, and it runs much more smoothly in my browser than Fusion ever did on my desktop.
OnShape is fantastic.
Yes! Access to my files via web browser from any machine without having to install software was what initially drew me in, but it’s replaced almost all the CAD software I’ve tried including Fusion260 and Freecad.
I still use F360 for CAM when I make parts on my CNC mill. Looking for alternatives… I acquired a copy of Solidworks 2020 and it has the CAM package but the learning curve is much steeper.
Okay so Fusion360 money grab, FreeCAD bad alternative, what’s left (legitimate question)???
FreeCAD definitely does look like a good option. I followed a tutorial the other day and was able to do some cool stuff with it. Autodesk can definitely go to hell but if I find FreeCAD is suitable for the hobby stuff I do, then I’m using it.
It’s a pain in the ass to set up and navigate, but I use Solidworks for hobbyists. It’s $99/yr and it gets the job done for me. Since I use Solidworks at work, it’s nice to have the same software for home so I don’t have to worry about learning to navigate another CAD software.
I tried FreeCAD as well, and it’s what pushed me to try the Solidworks subscription.
I dunno why you say FreeCAD is bad. When I got my 3d printer I picked it because I knew fusion would rug pull eventually, and fusion doesn’t run on Linux without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
It takes a bit to learn, just like any app. But it’s just as powerful. I really like the spreadsheet usage in FreeCAD to keep all my dimensions in one place.
I’m not the one saying “FreeCAD sucks”, its sprinkled throughout this entire post. My comment/questions was related to saying “okay so if FreeCAD “sucks” and fusion360 is pulling the rug on us, what else is out there that is comparable and as useful as fusion360”
Ugh
I mean arr exist. And with these practises they sure promote it more then do for them self.
Great, just as I started into this yesterday!
The hobby license is still free.
how do they know if you are a startup or a hobby user? couldn’t you just lie and have it for free forever? (with 10 editable project limit)
Idk
What would you use instead of Fusion360 if you’re going to be selling STL? I’m using a student license on inventor to I’m learning Fusion360 because I heard it has the cheapest license for makers to sell their STLs.
