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For the record, I actually run a CNC and a laser professionally and whilst I'm not intimately familiar with Blender, I know how other 'non-specific' software ca

For the record, I actually run a CNC and a laser professionally and whilst I'm not intimately familiar with Blender, I know how other 'non-specific' software can be modified and/or used as a starting point for creating project files. It might not perhaps suffice for the creation of a building or a jetplane, but for hobbyist use, I don't see why not. For instance - I use Adobe Illustrator as a 2D 'CAD' program, purely because I find it MUCH quicker to work with than the likes of AutoCAD (which I gave up on years ago). I just found Fusion360 incredibly slow. Perhaps things have changed since, but I last looked at it about 8 months ago.

bborud 6y ago
If Illustrator suffices and is "faster" than AutoCAD for your workflow, then you probably don't actually have a big need for Fusion 360 in the first place. But there are a lot of people who actually do things where parametric, constraint based design is quite important for productivity.
- detritus 6y ago
  Again.. hobbyists - but more to the point, it's perfectly possible to 'manually' do parametric constraints on moderately simple 2.5D geometries on the fly with a bit of logic using software that isn't necessarily built with that in mind. It's a cludge, sure, but if Fusion360 slows down 80% of your workflow where it's not doing much fancy, then that points to there being somewhere better, perhaps simpler, tools could be used. -ed Believe me - I wanted to like Fusion - I had the thing for a while and tried, but.. meh. It felt like a free product. At best.
StillBored 6y ago
I downgraded my account from a startup license to a personal a couple months ago. I went from never seeing any particular slowness in the app, to seeing a number of waiting on cloud function dialogs. I bet all the personal licenses are running on a single cloud instance, while the paying users get reasonable response times.

bborud 6y ago

If Illustrator suffices and is "faster" than AutoCAD for your workflow, then you probably don't actually have a big need for Fusion 360 in the first place. But there are a lot of people who actually do things where parametric, constraint based design is quite important for productivity.

detritus 6y ago
Again.. hobbyists - but more to the point, it's perfectly possible to 'manually' do parametric constraints on moderately simple 2.5D geometries on the fly with a bit of logic using software that isn't necessarily built with that in mind. It's a cludge, sure, but if Fusion360 slows down 80% of your workflow where it's not doing much fancy, then that points to there being somewhere better, perhaps simpler, tools could be used. -ed Believe me - I wanted to like Fusion - I had the thing for a while and tried, but.. meh. It felt like a free product. At best.

StillBored 6y ago

I downgraded my account from a startup license to a personal a couple months ago. I went from never seeing any particular slowness in the app, to seeing a number of waiting on cloud function dialogs. I bet all the personal licenses are running on a single cloud instance, while the paying users get reasonable response times.