Best alternative for iPad

[Anonymous]

I am Gaylord. I contract teach F 360. I’m looking for an iPad alternative for Fusion 360. I moved on my boat and had to give up iMac. I would rather not pay for MacBook Pro. Thank you in advance

[ryan.bales]

There is no mobile application that can do what the desktop Fusion 360 program can do. The app for iOS is a viewer and not able to model. 

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

Use a Windows Notebook ?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Yes that just occurred to me. An inexpensive windows laptop. 

[TrippyLighting]

That depends on what you mean with inexpensive 😉

I am writing this on a 2017 Macbook Pro 15" with 16GB of memory and Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB graphics.

If you split the current list price for that machine in half you'll get a pretty  decent Windows machine to run Fusion 360 on. However, I would definitely not go under $1000 for a Windows laptop.

[Anonymous]

You make a good point. Memory and graphics cards make all the difference. I will perhaps look for a certified reconditioned machine. Thank you for the follow up. Much appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Onshape and Shapr3D

Onshape is the closest thing you will get to fusion360 on ipad. I've used both Onshape and Shapr3D to create stuff I have 3D printet. So I would check them out.

Now that ipad pro 3rd gen is out though I would really love to see a full blown Fusion 360 app for this.