

If you have the time to watch the full depth and breadth that’s included – check out this playlist and take the Product Tour – A subscription for any one of those as a stand alone application for $300 is a value, but that’s not what we did, and one of the key reasons Fusion 360 is fundamentally different. Note that I didn’t say total cost of ownership.Ī Product Innovation Platform includes Concept, Design, Engineering, Drafting, Visualization & Animation, Data Management, Collaboration, CAE, & CAM functionality all in a single application that runs on Mac, PC, and mobile, all for $300 a year. Then by its ease of implementation and adoption, and finally total cost of use. First by the sum of its parts, which you will find to be a Product Innovation Platform rather than just another 3D CAD tool. Here’s how Autodesk Fusion 360 should be considered. It’s also how those of us in the industry have compared our products between each other and it serves no other purpose than to distract from the primary reason (in my view) that Fusion 360 exists – It solves many of the issues that have ticked you off about the CAD industry for decades: incompatibility, Installation / adoption, and Licensing.

So what is Fusion 360…? I’m glad you asked, it’s summed up in 60 seconds of awesome right here:

Of course it’s going to be different in methodology, but in result? This is the dialogue we’ve had with users, one aspect of design at a time, one feature at a time. How Keyshot has this particular type of material, or how Rhino creates a surface. How do you describe something that is parts Rhino, Inventor / SolidWorks, MasterCAM / Gibbs, EPDM / Vault, AutoCAD, Keyshot, etc.? Each of them might say – “it doesn’t have the same feature set.”, and they go off comparing how Fusion would model X part click for click in line with how they would model it in SolidWorks.
