I’ve ditched OnShape altogether and gone with Fusion360 as is has CAM
integrated with it.
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Also trying to make that transition… OnShape started strong but it felt
like their improvements were too little, too late. It’s still nice for an
online tool to knock out a quick design, and I’m very impressed at the
things that you [Shane] can do in it, but I an going to start trying to
learn Fusion360 for more routine work I think.
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Yeah, I intend to learn Fusion 360 as well on some future project, but at this point I have no access to CAM tools, and I haven’t looked into Fusion 360’s support enough to know whether their CAM is actually likely to be worth using, or if it just sort of works enough with some tools that they can make a bullet point out of it. I expect you’d be able to respond to that.
I’ll likely start doing my larger projects in Fusion 360, as it is the more feature-complete of the two products, although OnShape has always been easier and more fun to use than Autodesk’s offerings.
The CAM is excellent. It’s complete enough for me using it in an
industrial setting. I’m actually re-programming parts from our legacy CAM
package into Fusion as they come up. Fusion’s interface is completely new
from all other Autodesk UI’s as far as I know, so don’t let that hold you
back. They are pushing hard to gain market share with this product.
Ok, good to know! That’s encouraging and a big draw for sure!
The interface seemed quite similar to Inventor, which is what I’ve used the most. I have yet to use 360 enough to know whether debugging constraint conflicts is any easier. OnShape does it quite well, because they let you do an action even if it breaks things, and then it highlights in red everything that is upset. You then have the option to Undo, or fix the model yourself.
Have you seen CATIA, dds’ factory design software? It’s like Factorio on crack.
CATIA is insane, and has the price tag to match.