Why don't we just combine F360 and Inventor?

[thealucardfromhell]

Seriously. Why reinvent the wheel?

They're both AutoDesk products.

Go nag your managers/bosses to authorize it and merge the teams together.

You could say, It'd be a true FUSION of F360 and Inventor and all AutoDesk innovations, a full 360 DEGREE coverage of everything!

I mean... You could always say "boss says no, combining software reduces the money it rakes in, because every software brings in money separately" and I'd cry in a corner because corporate greed holds back awesome software potential...

*ramble*

[HughesTooling]

You don't think they'd just make the price the same as Inventor if it was merged? What you're really asking is drop the price of inventor to $300.00pa and give it away to startups and hobby users. Don't see any business doing that.

[thealucardfromhell]

No, I'm not asking them to lower the price of Inventor.

I'm asking them to include F360's functionality into inventor and I'd pay a million per annum for that.

Honestly I don't give a fluff about price.

F360 has much higher productivity than Inventor. I'd happily buy F360 if it merged with Inventor.

I wouldn't buy Inventor because it feels slow, rugged, limited and hard to work with.

F360 feels like a gimmick, but it has sooo muuuch potentiaaallll

[HughesTooling]

Ah OK, shouldn't the request be in the Inventor ideastation then? I can't afford or justify Inventor prices so I'd rather they leave Fusion alone.

Mark

[thealucardfromhell]

Could always have a "Pro" version and a "Basic" version of F360. Pro has full inventor stuff.

Actually, why don't autoDesk implement an universal engine to be shared between the autodesk products.

That's what microsoft did with Office.

[HughesTooling]

You would only need one feature unsupported in an assembly in either program and any translation becomes impossible. Take the sketch engine for example, the one in Fusion is AutoDesk's own, the one in Inventor is licensed from Siemens. The D-Cubed sketch solver has features Fusion's doesn't. There have been quite a few comments on why not have the solver from Inventor, I've no doubt it would increase the cost and I doubt they'd be allowed to give it away. That said if the Fusion solver ever gets good enough it'll probably end up in Inventor.

Perhaps a Fusion type workspace should be added to inventor using all Inventors tech and leave all the cost to Inventor users and leave all us poor people with Fusion.