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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.
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 $99/year
https://www.solidworks.com/solution/3dexperience-solidworks-makers
Says 48$/year or 15$/month for me.
Yeah, sorry.. I think it's $99CAD but yeah, $48US
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.
I’ve been considering switching to this but I’ve heard a lot of bad things