If you're a beginner: get used to a different software, because Autodesk is the king of enshittification. Your files will be hostage and then you're going to pay the subscription to keep them alive. Don't waste your precious time in mastering Autodesk applications, the more you wait the harder is the switch

Freecad is where it's at.

Hot take: that’s fair. They probably have thousands of users who made an account, drew a bunch of stuff and then abandoned it.

It’s not the best solution - that would be local offline storage - but it’s a fair change.

And this is why all tools I use are opensource.

This is my biggest gripe with Fusion 360 after the literal dozens of minutes using it. Why can't I just save my projects locally?

I have all the autodesk products available in software center from my job. Decided to give fusion a try, as it includes what was once eagle as well as enough 3d for my use... Online only? Where file? No offline stl because conversion is done online? GTFO! I'm back to using inventor and an ancient eagle version.

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.

https://github.com/aconz2/Fusion360Exporter lets you bulk export all of your projects to local storage.

Yeah, got the same email. Fortunately I already exported everything to .step files and am using Ondsel ES full-time for my designs.

Anyone know the best way to export my projects preferably without losing history and such?