I have always touted Fusion360 as it is at least for me, more intuitive than Carbide Create, Easel etc. However, since Fusion is cloud-based and doesn’t run completely on your computer, you are kind of locked into it in some ways. Autodesk’s last update rendered my normally pretty powerful 2008 MacBookPro obsolete.
Which brings up my next point.
Instead of upgrading my design computer, I thought why not get an iPad Pro. It just so happens that their are some pretty cool CAD/CAM apps out their. My favorite so far is Shapr3D. It uses the Apple Pencil to draw
spline curves and creating geometry is as simple as tapping Pencil on a face and extruding it. It is unbelievable to me that none of the big CAD company’s thought if this. Other cool apps are Concepts (which I own and use) , OnShape (very powerful, but not user-friendly in my opinion) and uMake (pretty nice, just different than what I am used to.
But yeah, Fusion 360 is great. I’ll start using it again eventually.
Hope this helps.
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