In my case I imagined one day when I retire from professional life being able to justify a small business using what I am learning and relying on a paid version of Fusion 360 to facilitate that. All of us are still learning, we have day jobs and dabble in 3d printing and CNC routing in fits and starts as life allows and support each other in communities.

There a many of us and the discussion now is centered around life after Fusion 360 due to the new restrictions to the personal license. In my case I transitioned from Sketchup to learn Fusion 360, this is not a simple or easy transition, if not for the current capability of Fusion 360 I would have never bothered. I am a maker and a part of a large maker community. I read through the answers in the link above. As I recall, the subscription rate was double the annual rate but the cost was better than the full year subscription.I am a little embarrassed but I believe in open communication so I posted the following in the Autodesk Fusion 360 forums. If you are and infrequent user, you could schedule CAD/CAM work for a month to complete a project and turn it off again. When first introduced, one of the subscription options was monthly where Fusion could be turned on and off by the month. As long as I ignore the upgrade messages and work locally, I hopefully will still be able to use it without the new restrictions.Ī comment for Fusion users. I kept the old version 7.2 (released prior to the Autodesk acquisition) on my computer.

I use Eagle for my circuit board and beginning with version 8, it has been part of Fusion. Now I'm kind of glad that I didn't waste the time.

Having a seat of SolidWorks and general inertia has kept me from becoming immersed in Fusion. When Fusion 360 was first introduced, I specifically asked the reps about the free subscription for hobbyists and was emphatically told the full feature version would always be free for hobbyists.

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