I used Fusion for 3 years until Autodesk decided to pull the rug under our feet and move many interesting features into their paid version. Now i´m using Blender for a couple years and loving it. If i had to compare i would go for blender the community is great and you can do a lot more than with fusion, sculpting for instance allows you to model more organic forms that fusion would never be able to handle and it has the remove manifold tool that´s very useful for fixing 3d models.
I started using F360 after using Tinkercad for many years, I learned the basics and anything advanced when the part called for it, sometimes I still make things in Tinkercad and then import to F360 for things like chamfers and filets. I did want to go to the local college for night classes in CAD but they teach in Autocad and it costs a fortune for a licence.
@@AndrewAHayes most of the colleges offer a free (or heavily discounted) version of AutoCAD for their students. Even if it expires after the class, the skills and concepts you learn will transfer to most other cad programs.
If you want to make more than 10 models make one of them read only then start a new design. If you want to go back make one the 10 active designs read only and then make an old read only file active. Also if you do the paid version you have to pay more to access simulate this is not clear in the purchase information. I found out hard way when I modeled something and it wanted tokens to run the simulation. The inference is that if you purchase the full version you get access to the simulation (but you can’t analyze without network time). I don’t believe you can do local simulate now either so too bad if working remote without internet access to run simulations. It is worth an email to Autodesk as it is rubbish.
@@valen961 been using Fusion for ,.. god, like 10 yrs? what ever. long time. never had an issue, I Update OS and/or clean and rebuild my computer once or twice a yr because I like to play and test software so it cleans out little dingle berries all apps leave behind even after you delete it. Never had a license problem (though I will say it's an annoying time suck reloading and setting up)
I've been using Fusion for several years and it works great for modeling for 3D printing. This is a good video for the beginner.
Thank you!
Great tutorial Chris! I didn’t hear you mention it, but it is worth noting that Fusion360 ALSO works on MacOS. Not just limited to windows users.
Thanks Chris! Good call!
I used Fusion for 3 years until Autodesk decided to pull the rug under our feet and move many interesting features into their paid version. Now i´m using Blender for a couple years and loving it. If i had to compare i would go for blender the community is great and you can do a lot more than with fusion, sculpting for instance allows you to model more organic forms that fusion would never be able to handle and it has the remove manifold tool that´s very useful for fixing 3d models.
I use Blender and FreeCAD, they're free, and complete.
I've heard a lot of people really like Blender, I've never gotten use to it, but I might give it another go.
Awesome series. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it. Happy Extruding !!!
Thanks Ron!
Great! Thanks. Looking forward to your tutorials.
I have some great ideas lined up.
LoL Chris you could get me to give up my precious FreeCAD when you pry it from my cold dead keyboard ;)
@@tracycope2257 And now that FreeCAD 1.0 is released many of the commercial CAD's convenience features are all working.
@@tracycope2257As a total layman, would you mind sharing what some of those flaws and features are in your opinion?
I'd rather pay for CAD software than having to deal with garbage like FreeCAD whose terrible User Experience is _probably_ only surpassed by OpenSCAD.
@@tracycope2257 Would you mind sorting the comments by "new" and replying to mine above that got filtered out of the "top" comments?
Ha! You're sticking with FreeCAD, huh? I respect that. 😂
I started using F360 after using Tinkercad for many years, I learned the basics and anything advanced when the part called for it, sometimes I still make things in Tinkercad and then import to F360 for things like chamfers and filets.
I did want to go to the local college for night classes in CAD but they teach in Autocad and it costs a fortune for a licence.
Ah yes Autocad, that's what I had in school 30 years ago. It's always been crazy expensive.
@@AndrewAHayes most of the colleges offer a free (or heavily discounted) version of AutoCAD for their students. Even if it expires after the class, the skills and concepts you learn will transfer to most other cad programs.
If you want to make more than 10 models make one of them read only then start a new design. If you want to go back make one the 10 active designs read only and then make an old read only file active.
Also if you do the paid version you have to pay more to access simulate this is not clear in the purchase information. I found out hard way when I modeled something and it wanted tokens to run the simulation. The inference is that if you purchase the full version you get access to the simulation (but you can’t analyze without network time). I don’t believe you can do local simulate now either so too bad if working remote without internet access to run simulations.
It is worth an email to Autodesk as it is rubbish.
Hey John, I didn't know about the network time, interesting.
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Their started dropping "360" from the name some time ago.
Awe, I kinda like 360.
Seeing as they don't support Linux, I'll stick with FreeCAD.
They don't!? That's crazy I didn't know that.
The real issue with fusion 360 is that it updates twice a week yet the simplest bugs remain after hundreds of updates.
I hear you, there are a lot of updates.
It's free... until they take it away from you. And have fun upgrading your computer every 6 months as they force you to move to the latest Windows
Agree about the licensing, but I'm currently running Fusion on a windows 7 machine so don't have to update windows at all if you don't want to.
@@valen961 been using Fusion for ,.. god, like 10 yrs? what ever. long time. never had an issue, I Update OS and/or clean and rebuild my computer once or twice a yr because I like to play and test software so it cleans out little dingle berries all apps leave behind even after you delete it. Never had a license problem (though I will say it's an annoying time suck reloading and setting up)
It's only good as long as the ride lasts. 😊