Fusion360 free Startup option is going away!
Fusion360 free Startup option is going away!
They offer a discount $150 for 3 years the $680 full price. 😞 it was bound to happen.
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I dream about FOSS CAD software at same level as commercial solutions. Using pirated software in meantime 😉
Inb4 "FrEeCaD eXiStS"
Yes, Freecad exists. I may not be an expert, but I do this (drafting and design) for a living, and freecad is terrible. I can get more done in Solidworks, despite it crashing, than I can in freecad in the same amount of time.
Entirely fair! I think FreeCAD is still fine for hobbyists like myself though. It does take quite a bit of getting used to (I came from Fusion360 and Inventor first) since it operates somewhat differently, but it's good that we have at least one option.
Hopefully it'll see more development and become substantially more viable in the future.
Thankfully I'm in a position where I can use SW for limited CAD tomfoolery, just so long as I'm not making models/drawings for another company or something.
Why crashing? I mean, SW its not even fair to compare with freecad
It's the thing that people most often whine about with SW. I don't think it crashes more often than any other program, but when you are in your own world trying to design something it can be annoying.
Edit: I feel it's entirely fair to compare Freecad to Solidworks, Inventor, Fusion360, Autocad, etc. It's a cad program. I'm comparing it to other cad programs. To say that's not a fair comparison is kind of a condemnation of freecad.