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This is exactly why I warn people about relying on Fusion 360 too heavily. Fusion 360 is a good piece of software and they let hobby users have it for free, but
by gh02t 8y ago
This is exactly why I warn people about relying on Fusion 360 too heavily. Fusion 360 is a good piece of software and they let hobby users have it for free, but Autodesk loves vendor lock-in. If they decide to pull out the rug or fold you're left in a very bad spot. From what I understand, Adobe does the same thing with Photoshop's native format.
- justinclift 8y agoRe: the lock in aspect, this seems relevant: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/please-support-quot-local-only-quot-files/idc-p/5831809/highlight/true#M10320 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/please... In short... yeah. :(
- gh02t 8y agoJust look at the history of their DXF format, which was hailed as their way of enabling interchange, but has perpetually been under-specified and lagged way behind the AutoCAD internal DWG format. It's not like that was an accident, they don't want you to be able to reliably take your drawings somewhere else. You need to be sure that any conversions of engineering drawings are perfect, so they make it 99% compatible to tout interchange, while the uncertainty from that last 1% of coverage makes it questionably useful in reality. The CAD/CAM/engineering simulation industry in general is really bad - full of extreme vendor lock-in, onerous licenses and draconian DRM.