Cad software?

Zaf · 2 Sep 2023 at 15:43

Scougar said:
They allow upto a certain limit on the hobby license btw, which is what i have.

That’s good to know! I thought that was SolidWorks that allowed a small limit not Fusion. Do you know up to how much?

Edit / I’ve just done a bit of Googling and looks it’s £800

Scougar · 2 Sep 2023 at 16:17

Zaf said:
That’s good to know! I thought that was SolidWorks that allowed a small limit not Fusion. Do you know up to how much?

Edit / I’ve just done a bit of Googling and looks it’s £800

I originally thought it was $10K (USD), but I haven't looked in quite a while.

I get a lot of use out of fusion, and would pay for it if I made enough. I just don't like the idea of my files being taken ransom.

Zaf · 2 Sep 2023 at 16:22

Nah it’s only $1,000 I’m afraid https://www.autodesk.co.uk/products/fusion-360/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription#personal

SolidWorks is $2,000 but you have to pay $99 a year for the Makers license

Mike_J_Smith · 2 Sep 2023 at 20:54

Sounds like you’ve got the software sorted now, but I’ve used freecad for my 3d printing files

Cyber-Mav · 3 Sep 2023 at 18:36

Tinkercad seems to be working out for me so far. More i use it the more i seem to be able to do with it

ElliorR · 3 Sep 2023 at 19:46

If I’m modifying an stl I’ve downloaded I’ll use Tinkercad. If I am designing something from scratch, I used Fusion 360.

Tinkercad is great for quick modifications. I bought a Kusba accelerometer for the Voron 2.4 I’m building and there is a nice Voron logo’s cover for it but that cover blocks access to the reset button. A quick modification in Tinkercad and now I don’t have to remove the cover, assuming I decide to leave the Kusba on the print head permanently, to reset it if I ever need to.

eggbert · 9 Sep 2023 at 08:01

As a complete novice I have been doing some learning in onshape. I have no idea how it compares.

fish · 11 Sep 2023 at 17:38

It’s ok it was made by the people who sold solidworks to dassault originally if I remember correctly.

Demon · 26 Sep 2023 at 16:09

eggbert said:
As a complete novice I have been doing some learning in onshape. I have no idea how it compares.

I use Fusion360 and Onshape myself.

If using it for casual stuff, there isn't a huge difference and certainly in terms of learning to model, it's much of a muchness, the one thing I keep going back to OnShape for is it's web-based so has an iOS app that lets me create/edit on my iPAD Pro with the Apple pencil, and then just fire up the PC and carryon on that.. all seamless.

However, there is nothing wrong with Fusion 360, it's got more features and whilst it has a different part/assembly relationship it's still similar enough that modelling approaches are fairly transferable between the two, which is why I also use Fusion 360 since some designs I collaborate on require me to use it, and I don't have an issue, but when I want to quickly model a part, I use onshape because it's quick/easy and I can always dabble at lunchtime in work if I want since it's just a web based service.