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For learning or use. Fusion 360 still offers a free version for home use. There are great tutorials on YouTube or buy a $30/month Udemy account and get access to tons of courses and everything else in their library and cancel when you're done learning.
For Mac and Windows only, limited to 10 editable designs and 1 drawing at a time.
The window part kills me... Wish there was a real Linux alternative.
Last time I checked it almost worked in Wine.. No issues with the actual CAD stuff, but IIRC the window for managing projects was broken so once I had reached the limits of the free version I couldn't close any open projects.
I use FreeCAD primarily. It's powerful but the UI is a bit clunky and occasionally you have to spend a lot of time on something that feels like it ought to be a simple operation. Perhaps I ought to try OpenSCAD too
I used to run Fusion 360 in Chrome on my Chromebook and then chromium when I flashed the Chromebook to Ubuntu after my support schedule ended. I get it for free through the school district where I work and am using my two licenses on my computer and on my friend's computer where I definitely do much of my modeling. -cough- lie -cough-
If you or anyone you know has an email account from an educational institution, you should be able to access it for free!
Shit I didn't know about the education email thing, I'll have to give that a shot soon.
I'm currently using the hobby license of it.
But you can save your files locally, and then delete them. The 10 file limit isn't really a limit. It's an annoyance.
You can just need to switch them between editble and read-only to save the hassle. But I have 14 on-going projects right now, it's a giant pain to keep within that limit.
I didn't realize you could toggle them. Thanks.
The 10 file limit really isn't that bad, I just set my files in Fusion 360 from "editable" to "read only" and it frees up more space.
Then if I need to edit an older one I just go in reverse.
And the 1 drawing at a time thing I didn't know was a thing as I normally only have 1 open but there have been a couple times I've been working in more than 1.