Anyone who turns it down will probably find themselves sitting in front of several patent lawsuits all over the world. Parasolid, the CAD kernel owned by Siemens, is more than 30 years old at this point. The same amount of effort has gone into many of the other building blocks as well. OPENCASCADE is a FOSS CAD kernel but doesn't work well for real CAD, and support is hard to come by for companies building on it. It's a great startup idea, almost guaranteed exit through acquisition by Autodesk et al. How hard is to build the equivalent of "Affinity Photo" to Autodesk Fusion 360? They have a decent tutorials page here for getting started with the basics. If you need a parametric cad package for small assemblies or occasional use FreeCAD is most likely workable. I've been using FreeCAD in a light-duty professional capacity for several years now. Will be happy to help out anyone who wants to transition to it . Fusion 360 is a free download. Is capable of doing anything a cnc hobbyist will ever need. I just created an acount. Installed the free trial.
But I've definitely benefited from other people using those features, and it seems likely they were on the same hobbyist license. You're not making money out of your hobby, you're paying out of pocket to learn a skill that you enjoy. There are no (i.e. zero) for-profit companies that aren't trying to sell you something at some point. The reason companies do these multi-year 'free' services is to eliminate as much of the competition as possible and/or build a brand. I've tried multiple times, and a couple years ago stumbled on fusion360 and have been using it regularly ever since. Its one of the reasons I still use windows as my primary desktop (along with a couple other piece of software that don't have anything similar quality/price on linux). You can use word processing software like Microsoft Word to create documents or you can write the Postscript code that your printer requires to print documents. Both can produce nice documents but it is much more difficult to write Postscript. The most popular platforms have more users that provide support, because most support for software is done for free by experts in their spare time. If you purchased online, your subscription will automatically renew unless you’ve turned auto-renew off. Simply sign in to your Autodesk Account and select the product you want to renew and verify that your auto-renew is set to on and your payment method is correct. Directly edit existing features or model fixtures with the only truly integrated CAD + CAM software tool. Students can take their skills to the next level by taking part real-world projects authored by industry-leading experts. All the learning resources you need to set your students on the right path are available for download, including video tutorials, datasets, and instructor guides. Regular product updates with new features, fixes, and performance enhancements, given that the installed Fusion 360 application is running on supported OS versions and meet the system requirements. Click here for more information on the system requirements. Edit-in-Place is no longer part of Fusion 360 for personal use. Click here for more information on Edit-in-Place. Removing rapid moves means that all toolpaths will use High Feed, where the maximum feedrate for linking moves is the cut feedrate. OpenSCAD is constructive solid geometry. You write a script then render it. That’s good to know I can edit stl’s right in openscad. Most users use conda to get all the dependencies going which is a horrible monstrosity. But wow cadquery looks like quite an improvement. I’d prefer to work in python anyway. If you're looking for an intermediate thing, check out cadquery, which uses the same geometry engine as FreeCAD but has a very OpenSCAD-like feel and language to it. OpenSCAD itself just visualizes these. Allows you to easily set parameters via a GUI. IMO this approach does not
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