The advantage, Autodesk says, is that the software license is not tied to a single machine or a specific serial number. To start, Fusion 360 requires logging in to the software with a user name and password no just launching the software with a single double-click. Based on the response from beta users, Autodesk is convinced that everyone will want this next generation of Fusion, because it allows us to “design faster, work anywhere and share with anyone.”

And so, on the MCAD side of things, Autodesk’s answer is Fusion 360. When Autodesk introduced Fusion 360 to the media, the company said it felt in the middle of a perfect storm, created by the triad of new types of technology, new ways to access it and new demands for ways of working. In another sense, Fusion always operates for free, at a basic level however, all options are available only as long as we keep paying for them. Some functions, however, are available only through the cloud, such as translation of foreign formats. Rather, the bulk of the software is still installed on a desktop computer. For one, it’s not a pure cloud-only app running in a Web browser.

Four years later, Autodesk similarly picked June 25 of this year to publicly announce Fusion 360, a cloud-enabled version of the original, thereby adding a modeling component its line of 360 products (including Simulation, PLM and BIM).įusion 360 is hybrid software in two ways. In response to the CAD industry’s direct modeling mania, Autodesk first announced Inventor Fusion-a desktop installed 3D modeler that combined freeform and solid modeling in a history-free environment-as tech demo on June 24, 2009.

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