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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by canthidium to c/3dprinting
 

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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[–] Spider89 35 points 11 months ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I spent a lot of time in free cad and am now trying Bricscad. I wanted to use Alibre because it's way cheaper but it's windows only and I couldn't get it running in Proton or Wine.

I like freecad a whole lot, but I couldn't stand the number of crashes any longer :(

I couldn't find any other sane priced software that wasn't Cloud-integrated (looking at you, dassault).

[–] Spider89 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Huh, I never had crashes.

Even with an Edu License for Autodesk, I HATE the UI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why it happens.

Just using it on fedora as installed from the repos.

[–] Spider89 1 points 11 months ago

Try the latest appimage. I use thoses.

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