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Re:Show HN: Design/build of some elegant parametric speaker ... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:17PM (#42855834)
I noped out of Fusion360 due to the intrusive (and dark-pattern) onboarding. Having to create an account is going to be a deal-killer for me for what should be standalone software. It feels like they may well pull the rug out from under the community at some point.

I never could "get" SketchUp. (Didn't they also kind of become more of a walled-garden after Google or whoever sold them off?)

Went with FreeCAD instead. I'm pretty sure it is grossly inferior to Fusion (the Mac version crashes on me periodically) but is free as in Blender. It has worked for the simple things I have been sending to the 3D printer.

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Re:Show HN: Design/build of some elegant parametric speaker ... by linsomniac on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:02PM (#42872453)
I recently switched from years of using TinkerCAD, and really wanted to switch to FreeCAD, but after watching hours of video tutorial of FreeCAD compared to the same for Fusion, it seemed Fusion was just so much more optimized for productivity.
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