This software is crap
@Anonymous this forum is mostly (95% +) a peer to peer forum where more advanced and experienced users help often new and inexperienced users.
Most users (99%) come here looking for help and usually we can resolve the issues they are encountering.
If you are encountering such issues then create a new thread and post your troubles there. Perhaps you can adjust your attitude because we do this on a voluntary basis and for fun 😉
If a sub-assembly is created properly in Fusion 360 it can be copy/pasted (instanced) with all functioning joints.
If you really want to get into a comparison of the strengths of difference CAD software packages, I'd be happy to do so.
A word of caution, though. I've worked with a variety of 3D modeling and CAD software professionally and across a range of disciplines since college so for over 30 years. I've worked (and still do) with SolidWorks since 1998.
@khushaldas.badhan.001 wrote:
The specific feature I'm refering to is not copying the whole assembly but for example, when you have 40 bolts to be assembled, in Solidworks it is much faster as mates are kept same on the same components and you only need to select faces for respected mates without needing to copy every time.
As I've mentioned, I am fully aware of what the differences between SolidWorks and Fusion 360 are. I would venture a guess that I have much, much more professional experience in both software packages than you do!!!
If larger assemblies with many fasteners are your domain, then perhaps Fusion 360 is not the right tool for you. I would venture another guess, though that you are not paying for the tool you are using, and the Institution that employs you provide the tool. Once you have to fork over hard cash to pay for the tool out of your own pocket things look different.
None of the above means that Fusion 360 is crap!
I personally use Fusion 360 professionally and very successfully in an engineering role.
@khushaldas.badhan.001 wrote:
I'm replying to you while I wait for Fusion to recover from stitching process which it is doing since last 15 mins.
That usually means that your geometry is questionable.
I would suggest you create a separate thread and post the problem and model.
@mia_wilson wrote:
Completely agree. Swear you need a quantum computer to draw anything but a straight line. Can spend like 20 minutes waiting for something to compute to be told it won't work.
Can you share a model that exhibits that behavior in a new, dedicated thread , so we might analyze it and provide feedback?
@mia_wilson wrote:
All the other cad software I have used is way more optimised and works so much more smoothly.
Can you elaborate which those are ?
My suspicion is that you are not so familiar with professional level parametric CAD software. I've used CAD software for over 3 decades professionally and some things work better in other CAD software, other things work better in Fusion 360.
@mia_wilson wrote:
Fusion 360 is just for big old companies who can afford to spend silly money on computers and software.
Amongst all the professional level CAD software I've used as an Engineer, Fusion 360 is not only the most intuitive to learn, it is also very inexpensive and when used in conjunction with CAM, Electronics, or Generative design it is an outstanding killer deal!
@mia_wilson - This post has been edited due to Community Rules & Etiquette violation.
@Discussion_Admin perhaps we can remove that last sentence ?
