Fusion 360 Student Licence - Dead or Alive?Check it out if you haven’t in the last few years. The software has come a long way, and the hobby version is like 200 bucks to own it for life. I think that Alibre did to me just what Autodesk are doing now. Somewhere I have a bunch of models that I made in a β€œFreeβ€ CAD package that suddenly became an expensive CAD package.
Yes, well, Autodesk doesn’t care about you, or all the hobbyists and other infrequent users in the world. Just like Adobe, they’ve decided they only care about people who use their software every day, full-time, and can justify the cost. 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. Click below to access the AutoDesk webpage. Download your free one year licensed software. Students and faculty can install products from Autodesk Education Master Suite or Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate. Creative Cloud is Adobe's suite of creative software, which includes the latest versions of products like Acrobat Pro Document Cloud , Photoshop,... Support for this software is limited to issues related to downloading and/or installation.
MyUniApps provides students with secure and free access to general-use and faculty-specific software, streamed online from University servers. I use Alibre - specifically Alibre Atom3D. It does everything I need it to do - it was $199 - I own my license. It has STEP, part modeling, assemblies, drawings, the whole fusion 360 download ita 9. The interface is simple, but it is still powerful. I imagine 99% of what most "hobby" people do can easily be done in that software. Most startups tend to license these tools instead of building them, but that comes at a large cost that must be pushed down to customers, hence the $$$$ cost of CAD today.
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