If I earn $100,000/yr from designs made with Fusion 360 I must pay the, less than $1/day owners fee. I will have to confirm my non professional use on a yearly basis. What is truly startling, is a full featured, fully operational, free installation is available for start-ups groups and developers and individual hobbyists (me), no strings attached. I expect something from Autodesk to reek with such high end features, It provides a huge amount of professional services, sharing, cloud storage, etc. For professional users, it is a subscription service with a monthly/yearly user fee.

It is also one of the new wave “cloud subscription” products. Now I am paying attention.įusion 360 is more advanced than Shapr3D. I followed the hyper-link and discovered it is an Autodesk product. In the reviews I read on this product, there was a mention of the Fusion 360 application. That didn’t stop me from exploring the application features, Here is a quote from their home page: “All you need is your iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil and Shapr3D.” The program is listed as “free” but the first two requirements are a bit beyond my budget. Shapr3D looks very Avant-garde performing on the iPad Pro. I discovered a new 3D CAD program for the iPad Pro called Shapr3D. I thought if I owned an iPad Pro, it would have to do 3D CAD. I was actually reading about Apple’s new super powered iPad Pro. In my web search I discovered a new tool from Autodesk called Fusion 360. I also have a standard AutoCAD I think is version 4 or 6.

I have a now quite old LT version which is strictly 2D. Autodesk (AutoCAD) has always been at the top of my unobtainable list because of cost.

I poked around looking at the trending in 3D CAD/CAM tools.

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