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 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.
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.
That’s not true. FreeCAD can do those things just fine. In fact, I have been able to do every single thing in FreeCAD that I used to do in Fusion360. There is a learning curve, but FreeCAD is extremely capable.
This isn’t true? Fillets and chamfers are available in the PartDesign workbench.
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
Freecad sucks. I use it exclusively and it sucks.
But it’s the only foss option and the only Linux option.
It’s the reason I jumped on a cheap solidworks license, was fully intending to use it as my primary cad package but I just found it kinda clunky. To be super fair, I recall using it years ago and it’s come a long way and I run it on my lab machine because Linux, but even not touching cad programs for almost a decade solidworks was just way easier to come back to.
I’ve noticed that as well. Closest would be blender, but that doesn’t even work on my Linux computer. Because the graphics card or possibly a different card doesn’t support it
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
Ouch, makes me glad I stuck to open source options even if they had issues.
My wife and I share a $1k Rhino license. Not so cheap but it is a perpetual license.
I don’t fuck with Autodesk, Adobe or ESRI.
3d design software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_3D
