I got the lovely email from Autodesk today that Fusion360 is dropping a lot of features from the personal edition. Amongst them are features that are kinda important for doing basically anything around the makerspace.
For those who don’t have the email, here’s what it says:
Effective October 1, 2020 , functionality in Fusion 360 for personal use will be limited , and you’ll no longer have access to the following:
If you want to try to get it ready for running on the HAAS I’m happy to help.
My main issue is, we need something that we can teach, train, write docs on, and still know that we’re going to have a license for it in a few years. I don’t want to work towards another Fusion 360 type thing, and then 4 years later they cut us off. I know we currently have a yearly Solidworks licensing through Tucker, but if that program gets the axe I don’t want to have to learn and write coursework for another software.
Maybe we switch to something more CAD agnostic like MasterCAM and then just have DMS buy a single license and we only post process right before the job run? From what I understand that would let students use the free version for their own design and then just use the Pro version on the machine to generate the G-Code before the send it along over RS232.
They went from giving generative design for free, to making you pay $25 per design +$100 for full model, to taking it away all together for personal license in the time frame of 6 months?!!!
With the new restrictions in Fusion360, you’d be forced to start the CAM process with something made entirely from triangles given the export options. Everything would by n-gons
If I recall correctly that was license was gratis. Legit of course. I don’t recall who worked that deal though. Maybe @frank_lima or @Robert_Davidson remember?
