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I am not a programmer so I couldn't do much beyond trying to make something like this happen which I did try to do with freecad before switching to Fusion360. I wanted to try to do some fundraising and create a branch that would be developed faster with some paid employees but no one in the project was interested in making that kind of commitment. I moved to F360 because the project was not advancing at the rate I needed. So like an idiot I moved to a paid platform assuming it would advance much more quickly lol. Oops. I have actually thought about trying to make something happen but to really actually do it in a way that ensured it would grow quickly and in the right direction would require a lot of money. If you could do something like talk Musk or Branson or something into pitching up a good chunk of money to get things rolling you might actually get off the ground. Someone like Musk would have something to gain from this because I'm sure they spend a ridiculous amount on CAD software already. Plus he already seems to have that opensource for the people kind of mentality. It would be awesome to see it happen but it would be a huge undertaking. More than anything it would take the right group inspiring the movement and the fundraising and that's not my best attribute hehe.
Thank you for all your comments and enthusiasm around this topic. I can assure you that we’ve wholeheartedly read through all your comments and have been taking this topic very seriously. I’d like re-iterate that ideas on the IdeaStation is one of the many channels we engage with you, and we have to take into account requirements coming from other channels (meet-ups, 1:1 interviews, sales team, evangelists, customer advisors).
Although some ideas (like this one) have a large number of votes, it does not guarantee it’s implementation. So to be perfectly clear and transparent: a Linux based version of Fusion 360 is not in our product strategy, neither is a completely offline version of Fusion 360. The reason why we marked this Future Consideration is because we are developing a browser-based version of Fusion 360 that should be OS agnostic. You should be hearing news about this soon in our forum and various social channels. As @schniek noted in a previous thread, we hope a browser based experience will be a solution to this need once it matures. I am archiving this to reduce confusion.
So to be perfectly clear and transparent: a Linux based version of Fusion 360 is not in our product strategy, neither is a completely offline version of Fusion 360. The reason why we marked this Future Consideration is because we are developing a browser-based version of Fusion 360 that should be OS agnostic.
Hi,
Very clear, thanks! But you probably missed some of the questions that were asked about Project Leopard in this thread. Allow me to summarize:
How long, roughly, do you estimate it will be until the first public release? No need to be too precise. (Weeks? Months? Years?)
Upon first release, how close will the web-application be to the full feature-set of Fusion 360? Do you strive to make the web app as powerful as the desktop app and if so, how long would it take to get there?
How well does the web-application score w.r.t. performance (speed and memory usage) compared to equivalent operations in the desktop app?
@AnonymousYou should be hearing news about this soon. It will be rolled out similar to how we are rolling out sheet metal (aka progressive rollout). Limited preview with a handful of people trying it at first, then it will receive updates with more and more people able to try it, then a full public preview. We will make an announcement about this soon, so stay tuned to the forum.
@Anonymous yes, it should give you a good idea. I don't see the first release to have everything. Fusion 360 is a beast of a product, with workspaces that go very deep. As the experience matures, you should be able to accomplish major workflows, but I don't know enough to give you a good sense on timing. As for performance, we are doing everything to ensure that it performs well on all browsers.
I don't see the first release to have everything. Fusion 360 is a beast of a product, with workspaces that go very deep. As the experience matures, you should be able to accomplish major workflows, but I don't know enough to give you a good sense on timing. As for performance, we are doing everything to ensure that it performs well on all browsers.
I appreciate the effort, but I can't help but notice you didn't actually answer any of the questions.
I just feel it's important to point those things out (especially these days).
@Anonymous Don't get me wrong - i'm not trying to dodge questions or trying to vague. I just don't know enough to provide more clarity since I'm learning about Project Leopard as it progress myself. Stay tuned!
Assuming you could snap your fingers and immediately solve all the technical hurdles in bringing a native version of Fusion to Linux, would AutoDesk go for it?
What I'm getting at is whether the precluding issue is technical or simply an unwillingness to cater for another platform from a business standpoint?
@timangus It's both from a technical and business standpoint. Having support for an OS means continuous support such as, install/uninstall maintenance, product support on-boarding, rolling out updates, the whole 9 yards. Hence why we are focusing on browser client since it will complement the desktop experience, provide new forward-looking workflows, and more mobile access to your data.
@keqingsong That makes a lot of sense, and indeed I have some sympathy with that. I'm the lead software engineer at a small data visualisation company that develops cross platform applications in C++ using among other things Qt5 and OpenGL, so I feel like I have some kind of handle on the issues involved here. Having said that, at face value, and from poking around the libraries that Fusion links against, I get the impression it has been engineered with portability in mind. Assuming this is the case, and it seems quite likely, you must appreciate it's a little frustrating that AutoDesk are unwilling to take the Linux plunge. Oh well.
I am interested in the browser client though. I guess most of the concerns surrounding it centre around its capability. Is the plan going forward for it to be the primary platform on which Fusion runs? Or is it always going to be a little brother to the desktop application, i.e. Fusion 360 lite? Seems like if you go down the former route that cuts out a lot of your overhead as you won't need to support any native client.
