The Ugly Side of Fusion 360 Student LicenceThat's not to say F360 is great, but FreeCAD is unfortunately much worse. I really wanted to like it, since I don't like my work to be tied to proprietary software, but after digging through it for a week I was back to F360. The biggest one is that everything is done via, essentially, writing a program that creates the geometry; there's no interaction with a GUI. I always wonder why a consortium of big manufacturers don't just throw their weight behind some FOSS CAD initiative and get something standard that they can rely on forever. I don't think it would cost them more than 3rd party software in the long run.
I used DesignSpark Mechanical a lot and really liked it. After a brutal learning curve, I switched to Fusion 360. I am OK with saving my files locally, I never wanted to store them on the cloud in the first Π°Π²Ρ‚ΠΎΠ΄ΠµΡΠΊ Ρ„ΡŒΡŽΠ¶Π½ 360 place. Not used them for a year as I use Altium for work, but want to get back to hobbyist stuff w/ eagle. F360 still exports like 10 formats, a bunch of which are read by other software like solidworks.
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