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This doesn’t sound like an issue for those who use Fusion frequently, however you may want to find ways to get local files, just to be safe.
Dumb cloud-only stuff. Good that I use Onshape, where stuff like that could never happen!
...wait a minute, shit. It absolutely could and probably will. The owners certainly could restrict the free tier or ban my account if they want, and then everything is gone.
I absolutely hate that. I really like Onshape, because it works great, but we NEED an, at least decent, FOSS option. I don't necessarily need stuff like flow simulations, just good modeling, like in F360 or Onshape.
FreeCAD didn't work too for me. The UI was horrible, the workflow very unintuitive and wonky, and it crashed a lot, while not supporting basic functions.
There were a few alternatives around too, but they were in the very alpha stage and didn't work yet at the time I researched.
I really wish someone would create something from scratch, or fork something that already works, like Blender, and turns it into a CAD.
It's just sad to know all my hundreds of models in Onshape will get useless some time in the future.
Seriously give Ondsel a try if you haven't, has a different ui on top of freecad and a few workflow changes/sketch tools that make it less clunky. I use realthunder + modern ui for freecad and while yeah, there's clunk, it's useable and importantly, no limits on your files. Modern UI gives freecad a ribbon bar and some other enhancements that I like, swapping between benches took a bit to get used to, draft at least the hotkeys are kinda sorta intuitive and make the flow a lot nicer.
I switched cold turkey off of SW Maker for that reason, it limits where your files can be opened on that license, plus kept trying to save my files to a cloud storage by default. I've said it before, yeah freecad isn't perfect, has clunk, but it's provided to me free of charge with no limitations on its usage, I'll gladly accept that.
I've tried the modern UI plugin, it makes freecad crash every 15min or so on my computer.
ModernUI was abandoned afik. FreeCAD Ribbon UI seems to have taken its place.
https://github.com/geolta/FreeCAD-Ribbon