I, like many of you, have worked in the world's most complex fields. Using intensely complex equipment and software, and dealing with complex ideas and sciences.
Never in all my years and probably 100 learned softwares have I encountered anything as frustrating as Fusion 360.
Usually frustrations become learning experiences because a solution appears, or at the very least the problem becomes clear. However, time after time Fusion 360 presents me with problems that have no solutions. Problems that are either irresolvable according to the internet and staff contributors or problems that *magically* resolve themselves after many tries, or after a program reboot, rendering them 'unlearnable solutions' because both the problem and solution remain invisible.
Fusion 360 is, by absolute miles, the biggest and most frequent frustration I experience in my entire workday. I shudder to count the amount of hours I have wasted on earth-shatteringly small issues that butt up against Fusion processes that just simply don't work with no explanation, or function correctly only 50% of the time under perfect circumstances. I genuinely cannot believe it. The best tools 'disappear' to the point that the user is interacting in flow with the workpiece. My issue with Fusion is that it pretends to be a great tool, it LOOKS like a great tool, all the great principles are there, but it. just. breaks.
Lazy lazy lazy lazy development. Fusion 360 joins the scourge of legacy software lightly supported by behemoth companies that are too big to fail, and too big to care about shipping a finished reliable product more than shiny new features. Shame on Autodesk, or at the very least, F360 QC.
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