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Any advice for dropping down to the personal plan?

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bentwookie
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Any advice for dropping down to the personal plan?

My yearly subscription is up this January and although I've always qualified for the personal plan, I've always felt like paying for Fusion. I don't feel that way so much anymore and am looking for any advice you all might have for making the transition to the personal plan.

 

Some questions:

 

  • I have a ton of projects. Would it be advantageous to prepare for their archival in any way?
  • Does "No Support" really mean No Support? For example, twice this past year Fusion has broken something on the backend or frontend which required an employee to fix a file (or several). Both issues were caused by bugs in Fusion and not that I just needed to be walked through a process. Presuming the trend continues, would I be left in the lurch with broken files or have people with Personal plans been able to get these kinds of things fixed? 
  • I generate toolpaths for a 3 axis CNC and export STLs for a 3D printer. Any gotchas to worry about there? I don't use any of the paid extensions.
  • I make simple 2 layer PCBs. Nothing crazy or huge. Anything to worry about there? I was fine with free Eagle, which is all this seems to be. Is SPICE considered "Simulation" and therefore removed?
  • When they say "no extensions" is that just the pricy Fusion ones or also the free stuff (like GF Gear Generator, etc)
  • Any other gotchas you wished you'd known about?

Thanks!

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cShutsy
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I don't have any experience with the new more limited for personal use version but I have seen this faq which looks like it may better explain some of limitations:
 https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Fusio... 

For me the nogo would be "Removing rapid moves means that all toolpaths will use High Feed, where the maximum feedrate for linking moves is the cut feedrate." and "Removing automatic tool changes means the inability to post operations that use more than one tool."  I simply don't have enough free time to work on personal stuff as it is to deal with that. 

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