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Much as I never liked the business model when it was first free to use it was really the only good choice unless you like openscad (which is great but requires a very specific way of thinking) for free access. Remember when Twitter allowed third party clients, offered companies вЂњfire hoseвЂќ feeds, etc? Pepperidge farm remembers.

ItвЂ™s no different from the local drug dealer having a вЂњfree crack for a weekвЂќ program.

When will people learn that there are hundreds of examples of cloud apps starting out free, the companies being all interested in APIs and whatnotвЂ¦and then boom, suddenly you canвЂ™t get your data out and the service costs money. I was told I was being silly, that it was free/cheap and awesome.

Think of the tens of millions of man-hours that have been invested into forum posts helping users, developing plugins, courses, youtube videos, and makerspace workshops that could have instead gone into making open source tools like KiCAD, OpenSCAD, pycam, etc better.ДЄll that work done by hobbyists, for free, helping Autodesk dominate the market in low-end CAD/CAM software.Д«ack when Fusion 360 came out I installed it, realized it was a freakinвЂ™ web app masquerading as a desktop app, and that all your projects were stored in their вЂњcloudвЂќ, not local filesвЂ¦and warned people. Posted in News Tagged autodesk, cad, cam, Fusion 360, license, personal use, software, STEP file Post navigation

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Update 09-25-2020: Autodesk has announced that STEP file export will remain in the free version of Fusion 360 To their credit, Autodesk is offering a steep discount on the commercial license right now, which might take some of the sting out of the changes. The problem with these personal use licenses is that itвЂ™s easy to get used to them and think of them as de facto open-source licenses changing the terms then ends up leaving a bad taste in everyoneвЂ™s mouth. Features removed from the free license in this weekвЂ™s announcement remain in place for paid subscriptions as well as the educational and start-up license options. To be fair, it was pretty clear that changes to the personal use license were coming a while ago with the consolidation of paid-tier licenses almost a year ago, and the cloud-credit system that monetized rendering/simulation/generative design services happening on the Autodesk servers. WeвЂ™d say that users of Fusion 360вЂ™s free personal use license would best be advised to export everything they might ever think they need design files for immediately - if you discover you need to export them in the future, youвЂ™ll need one of the other licenses to do so. Most of these changes go into effect October 1, with the exception of the limit on active project files which goes into effect in January of 2021.

All support for simulation, generative design, and custom extensions has been removed.

CAM support has been drastically cut back: no more multi-axis milling, probing, automatic tool changes, or rapid feeds, but support for 2, 2.5, and 3 axis remains.

Rendering can now only be done locally, so leveraging cloud-based rendering is no longer possible.

2D drawings can now only be single sheet, and can only be printed or plotted.

Perhaps most importantly to the makerverse, STEP, SAT, and IGES file types can no longer be exported, the most common files for those who want to edit a design using different software.

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Thankfully this still includes STL files but alas, DXF, DWG, PDF exports are all gone

Exports are now limited to a small number of file types.

Project storage is limited to 10 active and editable documents.

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The clear message from Autodesk is that Fusion 360 - the widely used suite of CAD and CAM software - will still offer a free-to-use non-commercial license for design and manufacturing work, with the inclusion of a few very big вЂњbutsвЂќ that may be deal-breakers for some people. That may be a reach, but judging by the reaction of the Fusion 360 community to the announced changes to the personal use license, theyвЂ™re pretty much hating life right now. So logically, it seems weвЂ™ve proved nobody likes life. Change is inevitable, and a part of life.