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Inventor Fusion

Inventor Fusion

Inventor Fusion

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Hello all,

Anyone have experience with Fusion? It is now available for a free preview (7 months) http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/fusion/overview/

Particularly for Mac users this is a big deal, as only NX was previously available for OSX.

Cheers,  

peace
Fe (IronX32)

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RE: Inventor Fusion

OSX is just another platform that I will never use fusion on. I find it extremely tedious, and in general, am not a advocate of direct manipulation. For something designed to be intuitive and 'great for new users', I find it very difficult to create basic things that are so simple in Inventor (and I don't expect it to work the same - just at all would be good). However I am not an evangelist or VAR, the former will tell you it is the future, the latter may give you more accurate feedback.

Notice that just about the only tutorials you find on fusion is produced by Autodesk - not the case for Inventor - does this suggest anything?..

RE: Inventor Fusion

(OP)
I too prefer Inventor Pro, however, I love OSX so I was hoping that this could be an alternative.
It's only disadvantage is assembly modeling. Part modification is very nice.  

peace
Fe (IronX32)

RE: Inventor Fusion

(OP)
Also, I do a lot of work with complex robotic assemblies. Fusion seems much slower in this regard. For example, verification of mobility is seemeless in Pro, but in Fusion is is jittery. And the fact that the assembly must be one file is a huge downside.  

peace
Fe (IronX32)

RE: Inventor Fusion

Fair enough. People have been running Inventor on bootcamp for years though, works much better than parallels if you have a choice.

RE: Inventor Fusion

(OP)
I never tried it on Bootcamp. I have on Parallels though. smile

peace
Fe (IronX32)

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