I hope you’ll find this newer article to be even more helpful than the original one. I decided it was time to take a closer look at these two software packages and see how they stack up in 2019. At any time they could make a feature you need only in the paid version.** Note, many have found my original comparison between these two CAD packages to be helpful. I also thought about taking a few classes to get the educational license for a few years. The 500/yr is much cheaper than my time learning OpenScad or FreeCad etc. It's been a 1000 hour journey for me to get proficient with Fusion 360.
It's a typical business model to undersell, develop a user base, keep developing features, and then charge for key features, and/or raise the price. I'm also looking at the underlying math and direct g-code generation from Python. I may play with that a little because it has 4th axis support and it does not cost me anything to try as it's on the shop machine. That's a 2-3K program but it's a 1x cost. 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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