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The download and document limits are troubling. Are the “documents” part files? If so, wow. Kiss F360 goodbye. When it came out as free a few years ago, I knew they’d eventually scale it back, but not this far.
Kinda glad I didn’t get too deep into Fusion, it’s an amazingly capable program offered for hobby use but I believe all that capability made learning what I need for my relatively simple hobby needs more difficult than necessary. Was watching some videos today and downloaded Librecad. I’d been looking for something between Tinkercad and Fusion and have my fingers crossed hoping I found it.
*Export (download) of IGES, SAT, STEP from Fusion Team will be available until January 19th, 2021
**Simulation, Generative Design, Extensions, and cloud rendering are not included.
First impression is favorable. I learned some CAD about 20 years ago on MasterCAM VIII in a friend’s shop, it was quite pricey at the time but very intuitive and easy to ‘learn by doing’. Only watched some videos and just looked over the menus in Librecad and liked seeing things like commands for fillet and trim, MasterCAM had them and I was missing them trying to use something more simple like Tinkercad. Probably a generational thing but I’m more comfortable drawing on the screen as if using drafting tools than dragging shapes around and manipulating them. And for $0.00 and a quick and easy download, the worst that can happen is I’ll spend a few hours and decide I don’t like it. Considering I’ve been a NY Jets fan since they were the Titans, that’s less than watching one game and it may well serve me MUCH better.
EDIT: Just found another +, there’s an online manual you get by clicking help that seems quite informative and step by step.
I’m going to check out solidworks. Haven’t used it in about 12 years. My son gets it for $40 a year for the next 4 years. He’s allowed 2 instances so we will try to see if it is just for reinstall or 2 computers
Just an FYI that may help some who’d like access. I’ve been a Lifetime member of the EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association for many years, membership brings access to Solidworks. Membership is $40/yr, $99/3 yrs, $159/5 yrs. If you like airplanes or even those involved in wild projects you’d probably like it.
Let’s hope onshape doesn’t drop their limits in response. That would make it completely unusable for most of the users here. I suppose you can still make up to 10 documents, and use 3DOF CAM and just not share what you’ve made?
Maybe it’s time to focus on FreeCAD since they can pull this kind of nonsense (and it’s against their morals)?
If anyone was using fusion already, I would export the projects you want to keep now.
There is an stl plugin for it. I think there is also a dxf plugin, but you need to be careful because it is susceptible to the camera perspective, so the camera has to be in the right mode (this is what I’ve learned from reading posts here, I’ve never done it). It is also dependent on the version. IDK if the web version supports these plugins. That might all be ridiculously out of date too.
I just searched for what formats were supported by the basic version, didn’t even know a camera perspective was involved. I’m continuing thru the Librecad manual and think it may be for me. Everything has its limitations but it’s starting to seem like the point between Tinkercad and Fusion I’ve been looking for.
