#Fusion 360 hobbyist plus#

I keep waiting for the shoe to drop (meaning price increase) but so far hasn't. 360 is free for hobbyists although I heard rumbling about price structure changes. The only discount is being a FT student in registered program during the program and I think possibly military/veterans/? you would have to check.

#Fusion 360 hobbyist plus#

SW is probably 5K to buy at its lowest offering, plus annual maintenance fees. SW drawings capability is excellent & powerful. I'm not sure about 360 drawings/dimensioning capability but think I've seen nice examples. That is infinitely debatable because it depends on what features you commonly use & how buggy the version is. Some people say 360 is 70% of SW in terms of CAD modelling capability. So a completed engine would be example of a moderately complex assembly. Examples of mates are edges, face to face, coincident axis like a shaft withi a hole, rotate about a line, point. Assemblies are collection of 2 to a gazillion parts joined together by various defined mates. At this point you have something called a part, lets call it a piston for example.

Then multiple ways to modify these solids again using combination of 2D constructs or 3D tools like cuts, holes, chamfers, feature mirroring, pattering. You draw 2D sketches, make them into 3D solids by a multitude of common tools (various flavors of extrusions, rotation). I have not used 360 but watched some training videos. It is very powerful & I consider myself decently proficient.