

If you’re using the free license and making money doing it, you should realistically be paying for the software. It frankly isn’t surprising that any company would want to make money on a product they sell, that only seems fair. Since they’ve been made public, I have advocated for keeping as few changes that would degrade the use of Fusion 360 for personal users. That said, I had no prior review of these changes. We have full autonomy in any of our content with or about Fusion 360 as well. To be clear, Portland CNC’s relationship with Autodesk and Fusion 360 is simply that we are “influencers.” In exchange, we get the use of one commercial license as well as new feature previews from time to time, no other benefits, or financial gain. These are hard changes – I (Justin) started PDX CNC using the startup license of Fusion 360 and switched to commercial licensing when that made sense for us. There will be no limit on how many archived designs you choose to keep. This change won’t come into effect till January 19, 2021. When you need to edit another, you’ll have to “swap out” an active for an inactive file. First off, you’ll never lose access to your files, what it amounts to is you’ll only be able to actively use 10 documents at a time.

I dunno, really.One other item to highlight: 10 active and editable documents. Seems like about all most people can really do right now is suck it up, pay the $300, and try and find something to migrate to over the next year. Alibre Design Professional is a $1000 perpetual license for all the same features, which seems doable, but it's at least the same amount again for CAM from say MecSoft or someone, which is. I hear a lot about BobCAD, I don't see any pricing on their site, though it looks like Google scraped it once and it's in the mid-four-figures. I think they're TRYING to make it so that people can't realistically arrange alternatives before the deadline, forcing them to buy at least a year of commercial single-user, maybe to juice the quarterly earnings report at a time when everyone's down on revenue because so many people have paused payments and they have that ludicrously inflated stock price to try and justify.Īdobe ended up creating Affinity with this type of behaviour, maybe something similar will happen here. Yeah it's the lack of notice that's the real kick in the pants.
