I’m posting to express my frustration with the change to the hobbyist license which limits drawings to a single sheet.
I’m an amateur woodworker, and used Fusion to design and visualize my pieces of furniture. Then, I made 2D drawings, which I would print and take into my garage to build. As I found errors or improvements I would update the design on the PC and create new drawings.
A single sheet isn’t enough to capture a bunch of parts to build something like an end table with a drawer. And erasing and rebuilding a different drawing each time I need to make a change is a foolish workflow. So essentially, this change to limit drawing sheets changes Fusion from something I enjoy using in my hobby to something that’s no longer useful to me.
I don’t have any use for many of the features of Fusion. I never do electronics, or CAM, or simulations. I’m frustrated that Fusion is no longer useful to me due to a business decision to (seemingly) focus the personal license on 3D printing enthusiasts. Autodesk might be able to find a market for a woodworker-oriented license (3D modeling, drawing, and rendering). Sketchup is popular with tech-savvy woodworkers, even though it’s not nearly as effective as real parametric modeling software.
I’d be happy to pay ~$100/year for a “maker” version of Fusion, like the recently added maker license for Solidworks. That price point is common in the enthusiast software market (I pay $120/year for Adobe Photoshop+Lightroom). However, at $500/year, it’s just not reasonable to buy the full version as a hobbyist. I’ve been switching my workflow over to OnShape’s free tier, since I have no problem with my designs being public. But I do prefer the workflow in Fusion, and I wanted to post here in case there might be any sympathetic eyes within Autodesk.
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