DOES AUTODESK FUSION 360 SUPPORT LINUX OS

[Anonymous]

HELLO 

I WOULD LIKE TO DOES AUTODESK FUSION 360 SUPPORT LINUX OS

AND 

WHICH WOULD BE THE BEST PROCSSER FOR FUSION IF I AM HANDELING LARGE CAM AND COMPLEX 3D ASSEMLY

LET ME KNOW

[daniel_lyall]

@scott.d.gray What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Any update on a Linux burn for 360? My company is moving to Linux, and I don't want to get rid of F360.

Thanks,

-Alex

[cryinkfly]

@Anonymous If you are interested in using Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux, please have a look at my project on GitHub and also watch my videos on my YouTube channel. 🙂

- https://github.com/cryinkfly/Fusion-360---Linux-Wine-Version-

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJO-EOBPtlVv5OycHkFPcRg

Important Notice: You can also use the drawing and electronics workspace now! (See here: https://github.com/cryinkfly/Fusion-360---Linux-Wine-Version-#which-work-areas-and-functions-have-i-tested)

[darryl.noakes]

Random comment, years later and unrelated to the actual question...

Linux has some amazing versions/distros.

Have you looked at Zorin OS? As of version 16, it's incredible.

Jack Wallen says it's the best Linux distro:

> Zorin OS is no longer a Windows wannabe ... it's Linux, pure and simple. Even better, it's exactly what modern Linux desktops should strive to emulate.

From the same [TechRepublic article](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zorinos-16-is-exactly-what-a-linux-desktop-distribution-should-...😞

> In the past 20+ years, I've used and tested more Linux distributions than I can remember. Many of those variations on an open-source theme were good. Some of them were very good. A few of them have been great. But only a handful have been truly inspired. Of that long list of distributions, I'd consider the likes of Pop!_OS COSMIC, Deepin Linux, Linux Mint and elementaryOS to be of the inspiring sort.

>

> And now, I have another distribution to add to that list: ZorinOS 16. 

[darryl.noakes]

Random comment, years later and unrelated to the actual question...

Linux has some amazing versions/distros.
Have you looked at Zorin OS? As of version 16, it's incredible.
Jack Wallen says it's the best Linux distro:

Zorin OS is no longer a Windows wannabe ... it's Linux, pure and simple. Even better, it's exactly what modern Linux desktops should strive to emulate.

From the same TechRepublic article:

In the past 20+ years, I've used and tested more Linux distributions than I can remember. Many of those variations on an open-source theme were good. Some of them were very good. A few of them have been great. But only a handful have been truly inspired. Of that long list of distributions, I'd consider the likes of Pop!_OS COSMIC, Deepin Linux, Linux Mint, and elementaryOS to be of the inspiring sort.

And now, I have another distribution to add to that list: ZorinOS 16.

[joao_mamede]

Spam??

[darryl.noakes]

No, not spam. At least, I wasn't intending it.

The double-posting is because the forum broke and posted it multiple times due to "Invalid HTML". I can't find a way to delete the previous message.

Regards the actual content, I said this because I don't want others coming here (like I did) and getting the impression that "Linux is bad, MacOS is the only OS you should use."

I hope that isn't against any policies? After all, the user I was replying to was voicing their opinion rather strongly, and I was just making a note about the progress Linux distros have made.

[joao_mamede]

Some people like Ferraris (Linux) others Fords (Windows). It's the way
of the world.


About the OS you posted. I wouldn't change as it's KDE based and I love
the new version of gnome. 🙂

[daniel_lyall]

It is the ROI so it will be a no until the ROI is enough to make money, you guys will have to use the wine version being done for you by a user posted above.

[joao_mamede]

If you say so, but that's a lot of interest from potential clients (replies and views).

[daniel_lyall]

Enough to make millions per year in profit?

[joao_mamede]

Even if it did 1€ a year of profit, after costs, it would be profitable.

It would take a few weeks to port it.

[hoegge]

With plug and play distros like Pop_OS! and built in drivers for Nvidia GPUs, i think this is relevant for consideration. Yes, the percentage of Linux users is small, but the percentage of Fusion 360 users is even smaller. One of the main things keeping people from moving from Windows to Linux is the absence of a few programs like Office, Adobe suite AND the CAD programs. I bet you would see quite a few people run Fusion 360 on Linux, if you tried to do it. And you only have to support a few main distros - or maybe only Debian (with all its children). The desktop does not really matter so support should not be a nightmare. I have used both Windows, Mac and Linux for decades. They all have pros and cons. But Linux will grow with the bloat of Windows and especially with Windows 11 just released and you'd probably have a much sounder OS for Fusion 360 professional use than Windows is. What about an experiment? Build an alpha version for Linux and get insiders to try it out?
For me, only three things holds me back from using Linux for my daily driver: Lack of Office, Ableton Live and Fusion 360. Office runs find in a Window VM under Linux, so that is not holding me back. But lack of proper GPU passthrough to Windows VM, makes this solution impossible for Fusion 360 and the same with Ableton Live (music production software). There are good alternatives there, if I'm willing to trash my substantial license investment and know-how, which I'm not yet.
Conclusion: I think the Linux potential is much higher than you think. The Linux OS percentage is low - but large enough to get a lot more Fusion 360 customers - and it might actually steal some of the customers using competitors' CAD solutions today.

[joao_mamede]

VMs are slower than wine based approaches. And fusion 360 barely uses the GPU actually. But I liked seeing OpenGL support there. It makes it run at 95% in Linux with wine


If you write the program the same way they wrote it for windows, it will carry all its libraries in the instalation, and then it runs in any distro.
Snap for example can make that happen in a distributable way.

I'm guessing they are using QT or something that was made for Linux to begin with to draw most things. I bet it's really just a change the libraries and release situation.


By the way office365 online has nearly all the functionalities of the running program option. You can give it a try, personally, I moved to Google docs.

[pietro.baricco]

CPU overhead of any decent hypervisor is negligible. I/O performance can in some cases be even faster than bare metal because of all the several cache layers in place. 

If you can afford a dedicated pass through GPU for the Windows VM, it's a no brainer.

Wine can work but it's hit and miss, the whole process to set it up is much more fragile and cumbersome than using a software in a proper virtualized environment (never liked winetricks and all the stuff it downloads from random places on the internet, or having to tweak settings on a per software basis in Linux and/or win registry).

Another option is to set up a dedicated physical PC for fusion with an Nvidia RTX 30x0 in it, which you can remote into using the great Moonlight.

When you don't use it, just let it mine ethereum and it will have ROI'd itself in 6 months.

[cryinkfly]

So I don't want to interrupt this discussion, but the fact is, there I already support a large number of different Linux distributions, where the users can use a setup wizard for install Autodesk Fusion 360 and some extensions on there Linux systems.

I'm also listed with my project in the Autodesk Group Network and I do my best to make it work even better and better. 👌

[barry9UDQ6]

My understanding of the design intent of Fusion is that it is aimed at users who do rapid prototyping and new product development from idea all the way through to prototype.

Users who can't justify a full-time designer and an expensive mid-level Cad license.

For me, Linux fits into that mindset (not to mention that I also use Blender for rendering)

Combining Fusion with something like https://linuxcnc.org/ could, I think. Start to get very interesting..

[hoegge]

Exactly, and I'm sure it will expose Fusion to many more potential future paying users, than they think at AutoCad. E.g. they will probably quickly capture a lot of the FreeCAD users. Of course it is not good for FreeCAD, but to be honest, it does not seem to good enough for "serious" CAD work.

[pietro.baricco]

@cryinkfly , just tried your installer and it's awesome. Takes away all the pain of tweaking wine leaving a very usable F360 on Linux!

[daniel_lyall]

@hoegge What would the ROI be per year for a Linux version, if it's a zero or negative it will not happen so use the version the dude is doing for Linux users.