The Cons and Pros of Buying Is Fusion 360 Still Free For Personal Use Used.To export from Fusion 360 to an stl file had to be done in the cloud - took simply ages for an extremely simple product - or alternately export one part at a time to do it locally and fast. The one feature of fusion360 I thought was really going to take off was the web based editing. If i didn’t need to install the program and work from my browser, that was something. Fusion360 stomping on free users at a time when hobbyist 3D printing is taking off also leaves an interesting opportunity for big players (Microsoft, Google, …) to swoop in. Make free software to capture the young hobbyist/edu user group. You’ve got a good foothold to take parts of the pro market in 5-10 years later. It was a pain to migrate existing projects from DSM to Fusion 360. I found one export type could be converted to step for Fusion import but a free cloud service only allowed 10 conversions a month. DSM allowed exporting a single component at a time, losing any hope of recreating relative positions of each part. I only had a few projects that needed to be transferred and ended up separating each part at a known distance and then added an extruded rectangle between each. Once in Fusion, would delete the rectangles and merge back together preserving the original perfectly. I decided to just delete my Autodesk account and be done with them. They are done with being nice to hobbyists, regardless of all the nice words they said when courting us to try their products and say nice things about it in social media. I dont waste my money on recreational online subscriptions either. Id love it if these CAD companies offered a Pay 5 years up front and just own it option. But I also understand that software piracy has ruined that model for us all. I beta tested rhino back in the 90’s. I got back into it a few years ago. It has a generous 90 day trial period, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to fork down some money on a real 3D modeling program without wanting to get bullied into the subscription model. If you’re new to parametric solid modeling, FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are worth trying. SolidWorks does offer a student license. I’ve heard they have an hobbyist license. But they do want their pound of flesh, and are very proprietary, so I suggest taking a hard look at the libre stuff first.
You don’t have to invest in expensive hardware since its system requirements are pretty minimal. However, if you want to have a better user experience, check into more efficient memory and graphics for your computer especially if you don’t have a dedicated graphics card. We think that while FreeCAD is a super piece of software, and definitely a project to support and get involved with, from the point of view of 3D printing, Fusion 360 is the better product. On Fusion 360 your designs are normally saved in the Cloud. To save them locally you need to click on the details of a design in your dashboard and then click Export and choose which format you would like to download it to your computer. Blender is probably best known for creating 3D computer graphics, but it is also more than capable of producing models for 3D printing. However, it is quite a complex tool to master and has many features that would not be useful to you for your 3D printing. While Rhinoceros 3D is really a 3D modeling program rather than CAD, it’s probably one of the most versatile modeling software you can find for sale just now. Fusion 360 is more user friendly for freeform 3D modeling. Fusion 360 was designed by Autodesk, the creators of well known and respected AutoCAD, which has been around since the 1980s. While offline, you will not have access to the files stored on A360. But one of the great attributes of Fusion 360 is when working on files they are stored locally for the best performance. Though, while offline you are unable to upload or tra
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