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Tangledfeet
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That's a darn good point as it is intrinsically linked with much of what is seen and discussed on the forums.
@eSCHEn Perhaps you might be able to get the wheels in motion?
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They were offering 33% off recently
DAPPH
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The free for a year non commercial short packages is still on offer as of today .. I took their 28 day free trial ......it runs out tomorrow , they offered me several purchase options as well as the FOC option for a year to play with
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The offers are not on at present, you missed them by a few weeks so it is back to £438 incl VAT for the year which is, in my opinion, dirt cheap for what you get. I suppose if not using it commercially then it looks expensive but then you could go for the free version and live with the limitations.
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No the plan is to use it commercially and do everything on it rather than qcad and emachine as I am at the moment. It is good value, I’m just tight
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I know what you mean but I certainly have no regrets.No the plan is to use it commercially and do everything on it rather than qcad and emachine as I am at the moment. It is good value, I’m just tight
If BobCAD hadn't got a UK dealer I likely would have still been with the as I could have got it for about £5-600 but the UK dealer wouldn't go any lower than £3,000 for what I wanted so I gave Fusion a go instead. I am glad I did as it saves me drawing in SW and going to BobCAD for CAM. Also Fusion is great because everything from components to assemblies to CAM are all in one file. The only downside is it is cloud based, you can still work offline if out and about but you need to make sure your drawings have been cached locally if planning on doing that. The place I do some of the CATs doesn't have a great signal but I usually manage to use the hotspot on my phone to connect but if things are cached it is easier.
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That's interesting for I got the email from Auto CAD telling me my FOC 28 day trial was about to end , inviting me to look at other options this morning ..
I've signed up for the years FOC jobby as a hobbyist .....non commercial use ... Looks like I'll see in a couple of days if it has actually happened then.
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Just read the later posts about the commercial version
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Do you use a laptop for that? Thinking about my post re iPad. Laptop may be better but didn’t want to go that route really.
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I only use the laptop when I am out and about. At home or in the workshop I use a desktop computer.
That is the beauty of Fusion, you can access your stuff from any place or any computer that has an internet connection. You can even pull up files on the phone but just for reference or measuring etc.
That is the beauty of Fusion, you can access your stuff from any place or any computer that has an internet connection. You can even pull up files on the phone but just for reference or measuring etc.
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Aye, very handy. Another good thing is, say for example I am working at home and forget to close Fusion. I then head to the workshop and open Fusion, it will tell me there is already an active open account and give me the option to suspend it. That means I can then work at the workshop then when I get back home I just say to open it there and it will as long as I am not still logged in at the workshop, if I am then I just suspend the workshop one 
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So I have decided to go ahead down the Fusion 360 route. I cannot get it to start - I just get an error logging in message. Looking on the Autodesk forum it is a fairly common issue although there are a few dead ends - ie people have tried all the solutions and still no joy. I am in this boat. I have uninstalled it, reinstalled it, messed about with the proxy servers as per the forum. Getting to the point where I will just give up on it! Has anyone here had the same issue and resolved it please?
I'm guessing F360 is loading, but you're stuck at the log-in screen?
Can you login to the Autodesk website OK?
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I didn't get any error messages when I first installed it but it did not seem to open.
I tried reinstalling and still had the same issue, nothing seemed to be happening when I opened it. Task manager showed it was doing something so I left it over night and it was working the next morning so maybe it was in some sort of queue to activate?
It still takes ages to load now on my laptop. Decent spec laptop but on wifi and i still get issues with it regularly freezing (I think this is when it's doing an auto save).
The desktop version we have on wired internet seems to load and run fine.
It seems to be heavily tied into a internet connection as I can't seem to get it to work properly on the laptops at all
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James do you have any idea of the speed that your computer down loads at and the actual speed your computer main chip operates at . Some where in Fusion 360's specifications it will give the minimum rates for successful working .
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Thanks all.
It’s a 2013 iMac - 2.7g intel 5 memory is 8gb 1600 ddr3
I’ll look at the rest when I’m back as I’m off out now. I had a demo version last year which worked fine but this one refuses to load. There’s a lot on the Autodesk forum about it but no solutions I found work for me. If it’s the web I may be better off with something less web based.
It’s a 2013 iMac - 2.7g intel 5 memory is 8gb 1600 ddr3
I’ll look at the rest when I’m back as I’m off out now. I had a demo version last year which worked fine but this one refuses to load. There’s a lot on the Autodesk forum about it but no solutions I found work for me. If it’s the web I may be better off with something less web based.
