I noped out of Fusion360 due to the intrusive (and dark-pattern) onboarding. Having to create an account is going to be a deal-killer for me for what should be standalone software. It feels like they may well pull the rug out from under the community at some point.
I never could "get" SketchUp. (Didn't they also kind of become more of a walled-garden after Google or whoever sold them off?)
Went with FreeCAD instead. I'm pretty sure it is grossly inferior to Fusion (the Mac version crashes on me periodically) but is free as in Blender. It has worked for the simple things I have been sending to the 3D printer.
I recently switched from years of using TinkerCAD, and really wanted to switch to FreeCAD, but after watching hours of video tutorial of FreeCAD compared to the same for Fusion, it seemed Fusion was just so much more optimized for productivity.
Don't feel like a noob, SketchUp's interface and controls are AMAZING (or were in 2016, which is where I am stuck because I do not want to "upgrade"). I have tried many modeling tools over the years, but always come back to using SketchUp for moderately complex designs. I haven't seen a CAD tool that does exactly what I want yet, which is to be able to define geometry either via a GUI or code (e.g. build123d), but then to easily go back and forth between the two, say adjusting some geometry output manually with my mouse by dragging it, and having the code update as well (which I acknowledge is difficult).
I never could "get" SketchUp. (Didn't they also kind of become more of a walled-garden after Google or whoever sold them off?)
Went with FreeCAD instead. I'm pretty sure it is grossly inferior to Fusion (the Mac version crashes on me periodically) but is free as in Blender. It has worked for the simple things I have been sending to the 3D printer.