Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Warning Signs On Fusion 360 Student Licence You Have To Know

New Report Reveals The Low Down on Fusion 360 Student Licence And Why You Should Take Action TodayI credit OpenSCAD as a unique style of modeling suited well to people who are naturally programmer logical thinking mindsets. Which is why you charge for that version of the software. They are stuck with it until the next major version. Everyone had been doing it for years, and a majority of everyone was ok with that model. It really just seems like companies are trying to squeeze every dime they can out of people who historically bought software once and used that version for a number of years.


Fusion 360 Education licenses come in two different versions. The first version is a single-seat, giving access to an individual. Educational institutions will want to use the group lab installation, giving them licenses for multiple seats. The commercial license is tied to your Autodesk Account. When you start Fusion 360, sign in using your Autodesk Account email and password. I happen to enjoy thinking that way. Most of what I make ends up being OpenSCAD. I mostly use OpenSCAD to design parts, and FreeCAD to design assemblies and integrate parts into existing things. Autodesk is about the last company that builds software on the backs of personal/hobbyists/small business market.


Cleverness only goes so far if usability is lost on your audience- that is one factor Autodesk, though I hate them, implicitly gets. An this is why I don’t like software as a service, they can change it anytime and have your data to ransom. Now however… Freecad might be a little clunky civil3d 2021 but it does function really well so there is another option to do CAD without coughing up lots of money for the software. As they move away from well featured free options too it makes paying for one of their competitors software using a business model you prefer much more palatable. In the past I just left my desktop running. My laptop was basically little more than a VNC client to me. If I remember the only restriction is interoperability with the commercial software. No CAM, but everything else I needed up until now is there. Usability is not the best but in comparison to other alternatives in terms of features and pricing it’s the best deal for me.


These people are professionals that need to work, they need professional support and they need it now, there are no alternatives at all, aside from Solidworks that's limited to a few domains. I regret spending effort in learning how to use this platform. I am removing all my public Fusion360 designs and tutorials and replacing them with recommendations to others to avoid their software. Reduce design cycle errors. Workflow inefficiencies. Track every change and prevent conflicts with automated, built-in version management. Extend the CAM capabilities of Fusion 360 with more advanced manufacturing technologies, including 5-axis programming, toolpath optimization, process automation, on-machine verification, and more. Take models from other CAD programs, even in the original format, and use them directly in Fusion 360 to collaborate with your students.


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