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Have you used SolidWorks or other similar applications? I use both and the Fusion UI is very laggy and unresponsive in comparison. If that's not your experience

Have you used SolidWorks or other similar applications? I use both and the Fusion UI is very laggy and unresponsive in comparison. If that's not your experience, maybe there's something wrong and I should reinstall it...

dekhn 4y ago
I have not used SolidWorks. It costs far more money and is aimed at a totally different market. What I'm trying to understand: are you talking about when you ask Fusion 360 to do something expensive the UI stops responding for a bit? I certainly see that, but it's not Qt that is the source of problems.
- criddell 4y ago
  No, I'm talking more about how quickly the UI draws and how quickly it responds when you interact with it. When typing and tabbing around the UI, does it react instantly or after a delay? SolidWorks is decently response, Fusion 360 feels slow.
  - dekhn 4y ago
    Nope, I'm not seeing any responsiveness problems. Note: I have a 8-core AMD w/ 64GB RAM and a high end graphics card. Clicking on any UI element (such as Create to open the Create menu) seems to lead to a response in under 100ms and if I do something that requires the net, it shows me a spinner while it does the loading. Do you work with huge models?
- inferiorhuman 4y ago
  SolidWorks actually had/has a product aimed at the hobbyist crowd just like Fusion. Used to be you could get a free copy with membership in some aviation related professional org.
  - dekhn 4y ago
    I had solidworks sales people contact me and we chatted. No matter what i tried, they wanted to charge me multiple thousands a year. Any free copy would eventually stop working for example when I updated to a new version. I'm happy with Fusion 360, it solves a collection of problems for me well enough that unless I see a similar program for less money (I already became proficient in FreeCAD and OpenSCAD before switching to Fusion 360), I don't plan to switch since I've already invested a lot of effort into mastering the fairly complicated user interface and feature set provided.
    - inferiorhuman 4y ago
      Experimental Aircraft Association used to toss in a free copy of the SolidWorks "education premium" product or whatever it was called. EAA membership is on the order or $40/yr so there was some migration after Autodesk decided to gut the hobbyist version of Fusion. SW realized they could do the same so the offer is now half off the cost of a castrated social-media-ified version of SolidWorks (3DEXPERIENCE). For hobbyist stuff at least Fusion is by far the least painful option, but the bar is set really, really low. FreeCAD is a gigantic clusterfuck to put it charitably (akin to using an awl to carve a drawing out of cardboard versus pencil and paper). OpenSCAD is neat but it really suffers because OpenSCAD is basically developed and maintained by a single person.

dekhn 4y ago

I have not used SolidWorks. It costs far more money and is aimed at a totally different market. What I'm trying to understand: are you talking about when you ask Fusion 360 to do something expensive the UI stops responding for a bit? I certainly see that, but it's not Qt that is the source of problems.

criddell 4y ago
No, I'm talking more about how quickly the UI draws and how quickly it responds when you interact with it. When typing and tabbing around the UI, does it react instantly or after a delay? SolidWorks is decently response, Fusion 360 feels slow.
- dekhn 4y ago
  Nope, I'm not seeing any responsiveness problems. Note: I have a 8-core AMD w/ 64GB RAM and a high end graphics card. Clicking on any UI element (such as Create to open the Create menu) seems to lead to a response in under 100ms and if I do something that requires the net, it shows me a spinner while it does the loading. Do you work with huge models?
inferiorhuman 4y ago
SolidWorks actually had/has a product aimed at the hobbyist crowd just like Fusion. Used to be you could get a free copy with membership in some aviation related professional org.
- dekhn 4y ago
  I had solidworks sales people contact me and we chatted. No matter what i tried, they wanted to charge me multiple thousands a year. Any free copy would eventually stop working for example when I updated to a new version. I'm happy with Fusion 360, it solves a collection of problems for me well enough that unless I see a similar program for less money (I already became proficient in FreeCAD and OpenSCAD before switching to Fusion 360), I don't plan to switch since I've already invested a lot of effort into mastering the fairly complicated user interface and feature set provided.
  - inferiorhuman 4y ago
    Experimental Aircraft Association used to toss in a free copy of the SolidWorks "education premium" product or whatever it was called. EAA membership is on the order or $40/yr so there was some migration after Autodesk decided to gut the hobbyist version of Fusion. SW realized they could do the same so the offer is now half off the cost of a castrated social-media-ified version of SolidWorks (3DEXPERIENCE). For hobbyist stuff at least Fusion is by far the least painful option, but the bar is set really, really low. FreeCAD is a gigantic clusterfuck to put it charitably (akin to using an awl to carve a drawing out of cardboard versus pencil and paper). OpenSCAD is neat but it really suffers because OpenSCAD is basically developed and maintained by a single person.