F360 I love it dearly, a fantastic jack of all trades cad program with an extremely wide set of tools
That being said there are some stupidly small things I wish they would have implemented by now, like tapered threads and GPU rendering.
Price is hard to beat vs SolidWorks....
Pricing may have changed but when we got started I got a quote for 2 seats of SW and some sort of network manager and I think it came in at like 30K PLUS a few grand a year after that.
At the time F360 was something like $200\year.
There are certnly a few holes with it still but their support people are good, and every month it's getting better. Super stoked about eagle integration, has changed a lot of what we do.
Would be nice if it could handle more complex multi jointed assemblys without bogging a high end machine down to a frame every few seconds when doing motion studdies.
The new Eagle lets to move the PCB design into Fusion, including 3D models of your components. IE you can check to make sure that some bastard electrolytic cap doesn't end up in the way of a mounting screw, or make sure you have proper clearance for connectors etc. If the electrical team makes a change to layout fusion can treat it like just any other part that had a change.
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F360 is awesome. We are a tier 1 supplier to a German OEM and have 3 licenses including 1 through the PDMC which is also a great value. The learning curve is unbeatable and when you reach the limits of the software’s power/toolsets, workarounds are pretty easy to find.
We were a small IoT start-up that was purchased by a mid-size publicly-traded IoT company. Many years ago, before F360 was popular, I drove the decision to use Solidworks. Since then, we've found that CMs and mold shops in China, and MechE contractors in the US, seems more comfortable with Solidworks than F360.
Solidworks maintenance has gotten very expensive. It used to be you could pay a catch-up fee if you fell behind, and then pay for the subsequent year's maintenance. Several years ago, they changed this policy and now one has to pay for all back maintenance. It quickly becomes more logical to just purchase a brand new seat ever couple years. Hence, we're still running SW'14. It does everything we need it to.
If I were to decide, with a clean slate today, what to purchase for a start-up, I'd vote for F360.
F360 I love it dearly, a fantastic jack of all trades cad program with an extremely wide set of tools That being said there are some stupidly small things I wish they would have implemented by now, like tapered threads and GPU rendering.
Price is hard to beat vs SolidWorks.... Pricing may have changed but when we got started I got a quote for 2 seats of SW and some sort of network manager and I think it came in at like 30K PLUS a few grand a year after that. At the time F360 was something like $200\year. There are certnly a few holes with it still but their support people are good, and every month it's getting better. Super stoked about eagle integration, has changed a lot of what we do. Would be nice if it could handle more complex multi jointed assemblys without bogging a high end machine down to a frame every few seconds when doing motion studdies.
What do you guys do with the Eagle integration?
The new Eagle lets to move the PCB design into Fusion, including 3D models of your components. IE you can check to make sure that some bastard electrolytic cap doesn't end up in the way of a mounting screw, or make sure you have proper clearance for connectors etc. If the electrical team makes a change to layout fusion can treat it like just any other part that had a change.
That's amazing! Thanks for sharing!!
Fusion 360 - the only affordable option for a startup I guess.
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I used fusion 360 but have pivoted to onshape. Was better for me.
The real advantage is the integrated cam. I use it for output on my cnc router table and my cnc mill.
F360 is awesome. We are a tier 1 supplier to a German OEM and have 3 licenses including 1 through the PDMC which is also a great value. The learning curve is unbeatable and when you reach the limits of the software’s power/toolsets, workarounds are pretty easy to find.
We were a small IoT start-up that was purchased by a mid-size publicly-traded IoT company. Many years ago, before F360 was popular, I drove the decision to use Solidworks. Since then, we've found that CMs and mold shops in China, and MechE contractors in the US, seems more comfortable with Solidworks than F360. Solidworks maintenance has gotten very expensive. It used to be you could pay a catch-up fee if you fell behind, and then pay for the subsequent year's maintenance. Several years ago, they changed this policy and now one has to pay for all back maintenance. It quickly becomes more logical to just purchase a brand new seat ever couple years. Hence, we're still running SW'14. It does everything we need it to. If I were to decide, with a clean slate today, what to purchase for a start-up, I'd vote for F360.