Fusion360 WAY TOO HARD
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Wow, it looks like Sketchup is at least three times slower than Fusion 360 
Instead of venting, asking for help would have you modeling much more quickly and efficiently. It would also pay to go through the learning exercises located in a link at the top of the forum.
ETFrench
I posted this response earlier today in another thread and in response to another user. The same applies here:
@Anonymous
Maybe you want to take a step back and consider that this is not for you!
You downloaded a piece of software that took one of the biggest software companies in the world years and millions of dollars to develop. That company decided to make this software free for hobbyist. All you have to do os to watch a hour of video tutorials particularly aimed at beginners.
If you did watch these tutorials and still cannot manage to edit a box then this is clearly not for you.
If you did not even watch any of the tutorial material that also took quite a while to develop and that again was made available to you at no cost other than an hour of your time
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Here is a link to the Support and Learning section I mentioned earlier. It's located right on top of the forum.
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Please remember that this is a professional forum, and we should all act accordingly.
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
I too think this idea that software might just "not be for you" is legitimate. There are too many options in the world to try and fit a square peg into a round hole. If Sketchup is working for you, then maybe that's the right tool for the work that you're doing. Having used both for years, I can tell you that they are each good at solving different types of problems. (Of course I can also say that I have not used Sketchup in years, since Fusion 360 is most often the exact tool that I need).
Rob Duarte
Associate Professor in Art, Florida State University
Co-Director FSU Facility for Arts Research
http://art.fsu.edu/rob-duarte/
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@Anonymous Anyone with 30 years of experience in any industry should have enough maturity and quite frankly plain common sense not to post profanities and insults right with the first post when stepping into a new community of users.
This is a professional forum and your post will be reported to the discussion admin. The language will be corrected.
I can certainly understand the frustration when one has to cross the chasm between these two very different approaches to 3D modeling and modeling is usually the first thing one has to do in Sub-D modeling and animation software or in CAD.
Comparing Sub-D modeling and animation software and a CAD software, any CAD software makes absolutely no sense. While either are used for modeling things in 3D the approach both are taking is different and there is a reason for that that clearly not very many people understand.
Most people that have ever only used CAD software are utterly lost when they are in a Sub-D modeling environment.
That same goes for many people that have spent too log Sub-D modeling and did not manage to broaden their horizon.
The purpose of a CAD software is to create physical artifacts. The main approach to that is to represent 3D geometry with BRep and (trimmed) NURBS surfaces. Both of these representations are mathematically precise and essentially don't have a finite resolution. This aim to create physical artifacts drives in many cases how the modeling tools work and how the UI is constructed. However, NURBS surfaces are rather difficult to manipulate/deform if one wants to animate things, for example.
That is why meshes - first plain polygon modeled meshes and later Sub-D - very early on replaced NURBS surfaces in tools such a Maya. Meshes are much more pliable and easier to deform and shapes are easily created that seem impossible with NURBS surfaces. However, meshes have a finite resolution, which is why in the past they often were not used to create physical artifacts (with the popularity of 3D printing that has changed). That also resulted in very different tool sets and UI's.
A word on Blender. I've used that software for over 15 years. In that time there have been many threads on blenderartists.org (previously Elysiun) that discussed the oh-so horrible UI, similar to this thread. I just recently got changed again 😉