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Got this email from Autodesk that Fusion is increasing their annual price by a huge amount. I subbed for 1 year a couple years ago for I think $380. Then I was able to get an educational sub after that. Fusion is still the cheapest CAD software out there, not including the free stuff like FreeCAD, but still, this price increase is massive.

It should be noted that it's still free to use for personal use minus the extra features.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

whens the last time you used freecad? theres literally a button for making fillets.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

For years, in fact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly forget, it was such a terrible experience I didn't give it any more time. I think that the problem was that I couldn't make it parametric.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I tried using Freecad as to filet something recently and it told me to look at the error console for more information, after googling for where the error console is, I realized the message to look at the error console was being output to the error console.

There was no more information to be had. It is a UX and functional nightmare, and it is what it is, but the downside is this means millions of engineers are being trained on subscription web sites, and eventually this will be used to both squeeze people for money, and also to prevent people from creating unauthorized or patented parts.