This doesn’t sound like an issue for those who use Fusion frequently, however you may want to find ways to get local files, just to be safe.
If you’re a beginner: get used to a different software, because Autodesk is the king of enshittification. Your files will be hostage and then you’re going to pay the subscription to keep them alive. Don’t waste your precious time in mastering Autodesk applications, the more you wait the harder is the switch
It’s just so rough to switch away from the one major CAD suite that doesn’t tar and feather UX devs on sight. Seriously, I like solidworks and solidedge and etc etc, but holy cow those interfaces are just unpleasant to use if you haven’t been steeped in them for the last 30 years. Even Rhino is more intuitive.
I found Onshape to be quite nice. It was relatively easy to translate skills from Fusion to it after a few YouTube videos.
It is but you can’t sell any models you design on the free version because “TeRmS oF sErViCe”.
Having tried Fusion 360… It’s interface and design paradigm is utter trash. NX, Creo, and Solidworks are all far ahead. Can’t speak for catia, I’ve never used it but the versions I saw looked worse than Fusion
We all have our preferences, although some people’s are clearly more insightful than others…
Solidworks has the most intuitive interface I’ve seen so far. I may be biased from using it for like 15 years at this point but I’ve also tried Fusion 360, SketchUp, Ondsel and FreeCAD with varying degrees of success in creating designs and assemblies more complicated than a nut and screw.
I may be biased from using it for like 15 years
Yes, yes you are extremely biased.
That was the point the commenter you replied too made.
give us good alternatives then. bonus for ones that run natively on linux. even bigger bonus if the workflow is actually intuitively usable.
Freecad is where it’s at.
How’s Freecad these days? I avoided awhile ago it because it looked difficult to use but I think this might push me over to it
It does take a little work to get started especially if you haven’t used any cad software before. But once you get the basics it’s easy to search for different techniques to address any problems you encounter.
The weekly releases are looking rather promising on the UI polish, Maker’s Muse did a video on it recently. There’s also Ondsel which has an even more polished UI.
And they are getting closer to the 1.0 release as well:
Issue stats: overall, there are 1852 open issues in the tracker, down by 14 from last week. 26 of them are v1.0 release blockers, down by 14 from last week as well.
And this is why all tools I use are opensource.
Hot take: that’s fair. They probably have thousands of users who made an account, drew a bunch of stuff and then abandoned it.
It’s not the best solution - that would be local offline storage - but it’s a fair change.
This is my biggest gripe with Fusion 360 after the literal dozens of minutes using it. Why can’t I just save my projects locally?
I’ve personally switched over to FreeCAD, because of Autodesk signin policy (not this one, fusion kept signing me out forcing me to keep having to log back in). I am excitingly waiting for the next major FreeCAD release since the daily builds are looking extremely promising.
I tried freecad and my god I have never in my life used a less intuitive application. OpenSCAD is more intuitive and theres an entire scripting language you have to learn for it
I agree, though Daily appears to be much better. For the sable release I see it like GIMP to Photoshop
Wait what?
So when I save my F3D files locally I don’t get the whole project in the file?
Pretty sure you can save them locally, it just requires extra clicks every time, which is super annoying.
Ok. I too hate that everything is directed to cloud and saving locally is treated like something strange that no one wants.
The day Autodesk removes the capability for local save (“export your files from cloud” in some Autodesk website is not the same as saving files directly from Fusion 360) is the day I leave Fusion 360.
