These people were anyway not going to be your clients so you (almost) did not "lose" money, and on the other side they got used to your product so when moving to a professional environment they would push for Fusion 360. Your previous approach of allowing people to use Fusion 360 for free unless they made money out of their project was really smart. > Most people I know in the makers community were using Fusion 360 because it was free, and when you are a hobbyist this makes a big difference, you are not gonna to spend hundreds of dollars for simple side projects. > I thought for some years that Autodesk was a smart company.
Pretty sure it won't be read, but as it summarizes my thoughts I can post it here as well: I wrote a response to their email out of hopelessness. No cheap versions for hobbyists like me who just like to dabble and for whom a yearly sub is out of the budget.Īny suggestions for free/cheap and functional local-install alternatives to Fusion 360? Parametric modelling has really saved my butt, and motion joint functionality is very useful too. US$495 a year to subscribe to the "full" version (they have "generously" granted a 40% discount until Oct, hurry before it's too late!). dxf? No extensions? I can't even buy stress simulation credits? The file export limitations in particular are crippling. Most of the cool hobbyist functionalities remained intact. Last year (or was it the year before?), they added some restrictions to their free version. I always had the impression that Autodesk had positioned Fusion 360 as their gateway drug into AutoCAD or some other Autodesk software, but that it was remarkably full featured for that purpose. I started looking at Fusion 360 a couple years back because it seemed very hobbyist friendly, and while I primarily use it for 3d printing, I've dabbled in laser cutting and CNC too.
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