sharing anecdote- after several years of using [con]Fusion360 I have ditched it. In my first year of CNC milling I used it often, painfully, and I watched many tutorials and practiced guided modeling successfully; but when it came to unscripted originality, it seems I ran into issue after issue, some even seemed buggy. So then I discovered LIghtburn for 2D CAD and laser process, and since most of my CNC work was 2.5D milling and laser, life was good again. But for 4 years or so I’d go back to Fusion when I needed to draw using constraints, dimensions, and sheet metal modeling. Again, painful, despite @TinWhisperer videos being very helpful, (thanks for those).
So a couple of weeks ago out of frustration with what I believed to be Fusion free license mode intentional performance-throttling behavior, I bought a full lic at 50% discount. What a deal As suspected, immediately upon next use of Fusion, it worked like a champ, no more performance issues, no more stupid buggy behavior, it was flying. So I’m finishing up a sheet metal model and orbiting it in 3D like a just invented sliced bread and boom - my i7 16GB 4K dsp laptop locks up and the screen is snow white; had to hot switch it to reboot. Immediately upon the screen activating in BIOS, it has numerous vertical lines and pixel ghosting, I could see faint graphic images from prior to the crash. Marvelous. After two days of diag with Lenovo and Nvidia, the verdict was in, LCD is toast. Fusion toasted my laptop.
It took a week to get serious attention from Autodesk on the incident, and another week to finally get a phone call with support to explain my case for some sort of compensation, perhaps in the way of a few years of license credit. No dice. So, adios Fusion. I got a refund. Done.
I have replaced my laptop with an i9 gamer, 32GB, GeForce4070 w 8GB, 16" dsp. Its a screamer.
So my new found 3D CAD sw is now Onshape, its cloud based (Software as a Service), and it has better sheet metal modeling than Fusion IMHO.
Here is a convincing demo- https://youtu.be/9FWcMxo61Qc?t=80
Just my two cents…
Lou