Our current problem is that almost all platforms are designed for profit but platforms, by definition, are foundations. And that foundations not only are used for businesses but also for society. As someone said on the Internet, what you are sick of is capitalism. You get a customer base, but as your company grows you leave the less profitable customers behind. I agree that Autodesk may share my name and email address with $ so that $ may provide installation support and send me marketing communications.
Hi Autodesk, I'm a design hobbyist and I'm wondering if you could please release a free limited version with features that would most interest hobbyists like myself. When 10 document capacity is reached, to revisit an older design, do so by deactivating an active document and activating the inactive one to swap places with. Again, the account continues to keep all the designs and projects with no limits on how many can be stored as inactive. Autodesk doesn't distinguish between the use of Fusion 360 to design parts for manufacture. The use of Fusion 360 to design tools or parts used in manufacturing. If your business generates more than $100,000 per year , you need to purchase a subscription. Signing up the first time is easy, renewing your license is confusing. I’m sure Autodesk does this on purpose to β€˜encourage’ people to sign up to the paid subscription. The sentence you referencing above is about the commercial version. If you look at the description of personal use above you can see that standard formats are still included for import. I am a tiny business focusing on innovative solutions. It doesn’t seem balanced that I, who earn less than 20k a year, and live paycheck to paycheck have to pay, but startups who operate from wealthy people’s money don’t. Of course there are a lot of formats out there, even a bunch of Fusion360 files. But many of the high quality models I have come across have been in those two formats. Fusion360 is loosing a lot of flexibility for hobbyist makers.
Blender is mostly meshes, but it can already have other geometry types like NURBS. You can convert a nurbs object to a mesh, but the modeling process and data format is totally different. I'm imagining that the solid modeling system would be a separate mode type like that. Those are all fixed costs, the cost of development is the same, regardless of whether you have 5 or 500 users. I think you meant "marginal cost", and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software. Nowadays that includes bandwidth, storage, and compute for any cloud component. Software is only zero marginal cost if you create it, release it, and never touch it again. Granted someone is paying for this, or I have already paid for it out of my taxes, but the listed hobbies can be done for free with enough effort. Maybe it wouldn't have happened if ALL of its users paid some amount of money to use it. Or even better, it wouldn't have happened if a batch of the free tier users didn't abuse the licensing agreements. Why would you move your product into the cloud if it only increased your marginal costs? You move into the cloud to increase your marginal revenue. But note that the cost to design the bicycle is not part of the calculation there- because it doesn't depend on how many bicycles I build from that design. You have to realize that companies like Autodesk keep so many products alive even when they are losing money on them for years, quite thanklessly. I was looking to Autodesk Fusion 360. Even opened a team for our family recently. I decided on that after looking at FreeCAD, Solvespace, OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, and a few others, each of which had a fundamental dealbreaker. Perhaps it will have to be FreeCAD after all. So, IMHO I _REALLY_ want an opensource solidworks/fusion360/etc competitor but at the moment its just not there yet. From the vi
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