[PostOnce]

Fusion360 keeps getting worse and worse, they revoke features and jack the price every few months. At some point open source becomes the better value, at least there you know features won't be stolen or the price increased without notice

[joshvm]

I gave up on Fusion360 when it told me that the STL exporter wouldn't work without a cloud connection. The app itself works well enough offline, so this seems like a bizarre omission. Surprisingly there are places in the world with 3D printers, but poor to no internet access. In the past Autodesk's servers have also crashed and people have been unable to export models that weren't previously online.

[gh02t]

Yeah to be fair I never actually liked Fusion 360 personally. I don't find it super intuitive, but it is quite powerful and polished and I know some people who use it professionally and can do magic in it. OnShape really is perfect to my tastes in terms of being super intuitive yet powerful, but the cloud aspect gives me heartburn. Part of me hopes Autodesk locking down what used to be very generous license terms on F360 might spawn more OSS work to replace it. Similar crackdowns on Eagle were what motivated a lot of the improvements to KiCAD in the last several years that really took it over the line to being a tool I think is legitimately competitive.

[adastra22]

Have you tried Shapr3D? It is really intuitive to use. The downsides seem to be (1) it's CAD-only and you have to export to another tool to do analysis or manufacturing steps, and (2) price. But there's a free version to play around with.

[buildbot]

Yeah Fusion360 is incredibly slow on my M1Max, and does terribly bugging things like spam launchdarkley 2 MILLION TIMES if you dns block it…

[Dracophoenix]

Any alternatives you'd recommend?

[buildbot]

No, I have been looking extensively trying to find a decent option. Possibly Alibre through a VM? Solid edge is another possibility, still a subscription service though.