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I've spent some time trying to learn FreeCAD and ultimately decided that the cost of Fusion 360 pays for itself several times over in productivity compared to trying to deal with how clunky and difficult FreeCAD is.

Alternatively PCB stuff in Fusion is pretty horrible and IMO worse than Eagle was before they all but abandon it and started shoe honing it into Fusion. Meanwhile KiCad continues to get better and more feature rich.

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I tend to feel the same way about F360 -- I'm productive in it -- but the increased amount of 'cloud credit' usage within the app is driving me away from the product faster and faster.

It's mostly superficial stuff behind that right now, but I can see the writing on the walls. There's no real valid technical reason why I can't render a carousel rendering of a design locally, especially after I am already wrangled into a subscription fee for a product that would've been a one time (albeit large) purchase a few years back.

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