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Got this email from Autodesk that Fusion is increasing their annual price by a huge amount. I subbed for 1 year a couple years ago for I think $380. Then I was able to get an educational sub after that. Fusion is still the cheapest CAD software out there, not including the free stuff like FreeCAD, but still, this price increase is massive.

It should be noted that it's still free to use for personal use minus the extra features.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fusion is still the cheapest CAD software out there

Is it thou?

I was looking at Solidworks and it looks like I can sub for $99/year

https://www.solidworks.com/solution/3dexperience-solidworks-makers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Says 48$/year or 15$/month for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, sorry.. I think it's $99CAD but yeah, $48US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No need to apologize, even if it supposedly is the custom in your part of the world. 😉 You still pointed out something that I didn't know about and for that you have my eternal gratitude. Not much of it, mind, but some of it.

[–] frostwhitewolf 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been considering switching to this but I’ve heard a lot of bad things