I have access to a copy of that at the shop. The other paid option that's similar for the hobby level of user is Aspire. Especially useful as my laptop goes from home to the shop and back.

It does not need a full gaming machine to run well. The user interface is well done, with CV splines you can closely approximate G3 surfaces if you need them. Also they moved features from the base paid model to the manufacturing module.Īs an advanced hobby user, who has access to commercial equipment it's a terrific value free or paid. We used to be able to do multiple tools without a Python Script in the free version. Especially since Solidworks tied up the Educational Pipeline, and most of the big users have invested in training, internal tools, data organization, etc. The paid version is the best value for small industry, advanced hobby users, and shops right now as Autodesk tries to undercut the bottom 1/3 of Solidwork's market. I was interested in this stuff in the 90's. Partially because it's leveraging the other mature code bases of the Autodesk IP. Compared to anything open source, it's light years ahead. Yet I continue to invest time to learn the last 50% of the software. So I have seen this in my field as well as in other fields as well. When I finish this post I will leave for work to see patients at a facility that uses one of the major EHR's for that type of facility. If Autodesk decided to change that like they did in the past already they can.

Fusion is not 'Free' We are being allowed to use a moderate set of functions of the software at this time.

I think it belongs as it's own more visible post. I typed out this reply to a different post.

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