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I vote for having this on Linux. There is no decent CAD/CAM package for Linux. Autodesk should step up and be king of this area. Would get there foot in the door for new up and coming Makers which could lead to sales on the Windows side as they progressed.
As a former IT entrepreneur, and new manufacturing startup I exclusively use Linux except for Fusion360. My video rendering/photo editing workstations run Linux and I encouraged all former clients to go with open source solutions as often as possible because security is better by far, the proprietary model is on it's way out. The world is changing, I am 37 and before I am 50 the proprietary/open source market share ratio will be inverted, better to join now than be the last one to the party. Also, I don't think the community would mind if you specified the video card for us and rolled your own drivers, as long as you made the driver code available to be modified. At least that would get things started in the right direction. AMD is cheap, and I believe Autodesk is working on an OpenCL library, but Nvidia has 4x the market share with extensive Cuda tools.
I very rarely use Fusion 360 due to the hassle of having to boot into Windows and wait for it to do all it's updates. Much easier to use a poorer program in Linux. Onshape works OK for most things I want to do but I would much prefer Fusion 360. Autocad360 is now available for Android(Linux) so perhaps there is some hope. Or pehaps Onshape will improve and Autodesk will loose out!
I too would like to see Fusion360 available for Linux and have voted to make my opinion known. I have 1 Windows 7 PC in the house and its sole puprpose is to run CAD. I like Fusion360 (so far) and am enjoying the different features it provides. That being said, I see no technical reason whatsoever that a Linux port isn't possible. I do understand that there is a cost associated with this, and I would be willing to pay an annual fee to use a Linux port. At the moment, all I need are the Model and CAM parts though, so perhaps Autodesk should consider a more "a la carte" approach to selling a Linux variant. Personally, I find the Android port silly and useless, so perhaps dev effort could be redistributed internally to support Linux instead.
It's clear to me, as a person just dipping their feet into CAD, that the best approach with this type of software is to be very open to change and to experimentation. I've tried both F360 and OnShape in the past month. I prefer the sketching and modelling tools in Fusion, but I love the ease with which I can make changes to an OnShape model without having to log back into my "CAD Machine" to do so. The CAM module in Fusion is also much more capable than the one in OnShape, but it's unclear to me yet whether OnShape's will work well enough for my hobby-grade CNC machining needs. One thing that both programs share though, is my complete lack of trust in the licensing model. They are both free for me to use - for now. I see no reason why either company might not choose to change this model once their user base grows.
Because both F360 and OnShape are heavily reliant on Internet connectivity to function, they provide handy functionality - at a cost. I can easily access my models online from different places, but I also *must* have an Internet connection to do so. I may be wrong about this, but my understanding is that I can't edit a model offline in Fusion. I know that I can't in OnShape. While this is the trend all companies seem to be moving towards, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I can be virtually certain that as Fusion360 evolves over time, my current PC at some point will likely become inadequate to run it. This is true of any software, but unfortunately, with the "always Online" model, I don't really have a choice to schedule my hardware replacement. I can also be certain that I will have occasional network connectivity problems which are unrelated to AutoDesk, but the result will mean that I cannot use the software during that time. If I ran a business, I would be leery of this.
I will continue to evaluate every CAD and CAM program that I hear about. As long as Fusion360 serves my needs, I will use it. Once I find something else that serves me better, I will switch to it. At the moment Fusion360 provides me with the functionality I need - 3D parametric modelling with integrated CAM. Of those 2 features, the CAM aspect is the hardest for me to give up. If F360 were able to run on a Linux box, I might be inclined to choose to stay with it as my program of choice. On the other hand, if another decent 3D parametric modeler (which supported true curves and something besides STL files) were to appear that runs on Linux, and *if* there were a good GUI based CAM solution for Linux, then I'd certainly try them.
Oh, and it doesn't hurt that I can learn Fusion360 for free. Same as with all the Open Source options out there. I like that.
I wish we could get this past the "Future Consideration" stage. We have 163 likes, 164 comments and over 13,000 views. There must be people out there that are interested in this.
I think Linux users are going to be directed to Project Leopard.
A Linux version would however be a great addition, but it will have to be released as a static binary to avoid flame wars between Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Open Suse and the thousand other Linux distributions' users out there.
That's always been Linux's biggest hurdle, the users aren't distribution agnostic.
Problem with that is John isn't tech savy enough. Is using a mix of Mac and windows primarily. And is quite happy and content it seams with whatever the fusion team puts out.
Just chiming in that a linux offering would be very very welcome. I desperately want to use this software, but refuse to use Windows, and Macs are overpriced.
Up to third most voted and of the two above one has been accepted and one has been implemented. I am pretty amazed at the attention this idea has gotten. I always believed the Linux community was under estimated in the CAE world but I am still pretty surprised at how many comments and votes this has gotten.
I've used Linux for most of my life, and now use it exclusively. Using Windows is painful, and using a Mac is expensive and restrictive. Plus, there are more advantages to open source than I'd care to list.
I'm using Onshape for CAD right now, which actually works quite well. It's browser-based, and therefore cross-platform compatible. People have told me Fusion 360 is better, though, so I went to take a look. I was a bit disappointed to find out I couldn't use it. For now, I would encourage other Linux users to try Onshape.
And to the Fusion 360 developers: If and when you start working on the Linux port, please do not be tempted to go the Wine route. It may feel like the easiest option, but it's usually a pain to set up, bug-prone and slow. Do this properly and Linux users will love you for it.
I've got to throw in with the Linux crowd as well!
I'm using Fusion 360 at work because I'm forced to use MAC and Windows machines there. At home, I completely switched to Linux on both my desktop and laptop and couldn't be happier. It would be so much more productive to add my Linux machines into my workflow. The obvious answer is to blow out Windows on one of my boxes at home or get a MAC, but I pretty much refuse for all the reasons previously listed. Telework is an option for me, but I'm forced to bring a slower MAC to the house in order to telework, so I usually just go to the office.
As previous posters have stated, there is no viable option for Linux users except Onshape, and I have neither the time nor the energy to learn a new software package. If Fusion 360 was the only truly cross platform option out there, I think it would be a win / win for the entire community.
I'd really love to see Fusion come to at least Ubuntu, as I am forced to switch over to windows simply for Fusion, which is a real inconvenience. I'm learning to use freecad for a lot of the things I need fusion for, but I do miss fusion when I am working in linux. It would be great if I didn't have to split my CAD work across platforms like that.
i have tried applying for Leopard probably a dozen times since it came out. They still seem to be accepting people on a very limited basis. Either that or they just don't like me. Either way it will probably be years before it's out of Beta. Even then from what I can gather it's still not going to be the same or have the same capability as the application. They originally went with an application over web based because they felt it was a better option and would have more capability. So if we settle for the web version we will likely be settling for something even more mediocre than the current app already is. I'd still give it a shot if I could. I have even tried to tell them that I would like it for testing in Linux but I suspect that will scare them away more than anything as anti Linux as AD is.
linuxcnc, pathpilot both run on linux. I'd like to see Fusion360 running on Ubuntu or Debian. Both can use the .deb and apt-get structures. Even if Fusion360 used the WINE interface.
4 compelling reasons to take this off the backlog and make it a reality:
1. Most major CNC machines, 3d printers, laser cutters etc run on a linux kernel meaning that you are requiring people to manage multiple OS's by supporting only windows and mac.
2. Mac *IS* unix based, and harder to compile for - you're already cross-compiling to basically FreeBSD which the Mac kernel is based on.
3. Most maker spaces, startups and other future revenue streams are working with free and open sourced software, so by not cross-compiling, you're essentially cutting yourself out of a part of the market that is up and coming
4. In the world of computing environments and what OS they are on, more systems in the world are on linux based os's thanks to the fact that android is so prolific.
Please seriously consider at least one free and open sourced platform to make your software available for. Those of us in the maker community want dearly to use your products, but are left in the cold when you make us buy an OS that doesn't fit a model of "do it yourself"
