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Yesterday Autodesk announced some changes to their Fusion 360 license for Personal Use that may have some makers confused or disappointed.Īutodesk posted details about these changes on their blog: Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use

I think Shakespeare said it first: “First, kill all the markerting people!” I swear, its a subscription as well, they just call them $200 ~ $400 updates. I swear, no sooner than I’ve upgraded, then they are emailing me notices of yet *another* version with spectactular features, for only a few hundred bucks. But *their* marketing assholes have caught upgrade-itis. Pretty sloppy, Autodesk.Įlsewhere I’ve used TurboCAD for decades. And their own web site doesn’t have the files that their own video refers you to. It has some of their own tutorials, yet so ill conceived that Ch 3 talks about concepts not instoduced until Ch 5.

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They can’t figure out how to deliver a decent product at a fair price, so they’ve turned everything into a subscription.įusion 360 actually *induced* me to get a new computer, but once I ran it I’d say it’s a bit of an embarrassment.įor SolidWorks, after a 1 hour intro, I easily took to it, and filled in the details with some YouTube videos. Sadly this isn’t a result of the good programmers that created Fusion 360, it’s due to the unimaginative assholes in marketing.

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Update 09-25-2020: Autodesk has announced that STEP file export will remain in the free version of Fusion 360 To their credit, Autodesk is offering a steep discount on the commercial license right now, which might take some of the sting out of the changes. The problem with these personal use licenses is that it’s easy to get used to them and think of them as de facto open-source licenses changing the terms then ends up leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Features removed from the free license in this week’s announcement remain in place for paid subscriptions as well as the educational and start-up license options. To be fair, it was pretty clear that changes to the personal use license were coming a while ago with the consolidation of paid-tier licenses almost a year ago, and the cloud-credit system that monetized rendering/simulation/generative design services happening on the Autodesk servers. We’d say that users of Fusion 360’s free personal use license would best be advised to export everything they might ever think they need design files for immediately - if you discover you need to export them in the future, you’ll need one of the other licenses to do so. Most of these changes go into effect October 1, with the exception of the limit on active project files which goes into effect in January of 2021.

All support for simulation, generative design, and custom extensions has been removed.

CAM support has been drastically cut back: no more multi-axis milling, probing, automatic tool changes, or rapid feeds, but support for 2, 2.5, and 3 axis remains.

Rendering can now only be done locally, so leveraging cloud-based rendering is no longer possible.

2D drawings can now only be single sheet, and can only be printed or plotted.

Perhaps most importantly to the makerverse, STEP, SAT, and IGES file types can no longer be exported, the most common files for those who want to edit a design using different software.

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Thankfully this still includes STL files but alas, DXF, DWG, PDF exports are all gone

Exports are now limited to a small number of file types.

Project storage is limited to 10 active and editable documents.

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The clear message from Autodesk is that Fusion 360 - the widely used suite of CAD and CAM software - will still offer a free-to-use non-commercial license for design and manufacturing work, with the inclusion of a few very big “buts” that may be deal-breakers for some people. That may be a reach, but judging by the reaction of the Fusion 360 community to the announced changes to the personal use license, they’re pretty much hating life right now.

So logically, it seems we’ve proved nobody likes life. Change is inevitable, and a part of life.