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FOSS alternative to Fusion360
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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I have regrettably moved to Onshape as well. Closest to fusion and free as long as you’re just making things for your own use. OpenSCAD is powerful, but I can’t get past the learning curve. Wish I could use it though. One day, maybe.
I use OpenSCAD for some gears etc, but onshape for the rest. I used FreeCAD for work a few years ago as we were stuck on Linux, I can wield it well, but it's a bit clunky and would crash often on things like threads.
Onshape just works for the home hobbyist. I wish FreeCAD was a bit better, but I understand it's a lot of work, just the creature comforts of fusion and onshape are hard to give back up.
Price you pay..
Honestly I could live with paying.
It's the subscription model that makes me want to vomit 🤮
It's free for hobbyist and have your models open...
(onshape)
I would gladly pay $299 once for security updates only and unlimited support, no feature updates. I just don’t want to pay $299 every twelve months.
I wish I could wrap my head around openSCAD. I have seen what it can do, I just can’t think in those dimensions when I’m drafting something.
Yeah it's more primitive, I don't see it as a full cad drafting replacement, but as mentioned, it's nice for things like gears and classic parameter based models.