I knowww I know save your forks and torches but I’m in the middle of a fully 3D printed homelab project and I can’t afford to start learning FreeCad just yet.
Everytime I even begin to think about using windows on my second laptop makes me kick and scream, its genuinely vomit inducing and its keeping me from finishing my project.
I’ve been using it through wine for two years now, using this repo.
It works surprisingly well, sometimes there’s some flickering, but not enough to prevent me from working. It gets a bit slow to react on big assemblies, though that might also be the case on windows. logging in is a pain, luckily that’s only every 1-2 months (you need to log in on the homepage, copy the login id and run a cli command with the id, within the 30 seconds before the id expires. Usually takes me 2-3 tries because i forget it after 2 months). it not seeing linux drives and having to copy files from/to wine’s drive_c is a bit annoying.
but overall it’s good enough, haven’t booted the windows partition in those two years and I’m willing to deal with this to be windows free. But if i had to use it professionally as a daily driver, that would probably be different.
I did have to reinstall it twice in the two year period, though.
may I ask what distro ur using? I tried this and I couldn’t get it to run, spent hours troubleshooting
Arch Linux. First on i3, later on wayland with Sway, where I had lots of flickering, so I’d use XFCE (with x11) specifically for Fusion work (so log out and log in with xfce when i wanted to use fusion). and now Niri, which works well enough for flickering, but has issues with fusion 360’s modal windows not being in the right place, so i use a Labwc window inside Niri and force Fusion to run in that, mostly because i grew tired of switching to xfce. I would recommend xfce if you want less hassle. Haven’t tried with gnome or kde.
Do you remember what issues you had? Whenever i had trouble in the past (e.g. with logging in), i usually found a solution in the github issues (i guess both GH aud codeberg issues now that the project moved)
I get to the fusion360 installation window, when its halfway through it just crashes.
I use arch Linux with cinnamon de and openRC as my initsystem
That repo seems to have just been archived though. That would worry me if I were starting to use it now.
But I’m using it on windows, on my game machine.
Oh you’re right, it’s moved to codeberg. I’ve updated my original post. Lots of projects moving off of github recently, because Microsoft. In my experience crinklyfly is very active in maintaining the repo, so hopefully this will continue on codeberg.
Its not FOSS but it works great on Linux in the browser… OnShape
The state of FreeCAD after the 1.1 release is absolutely excellent!
EDIT: Just read your full question. Anyway, after your done with this project, I highly suggest the migration. I recently did it and am not looking back. I just exported all my Fusion designs as step files and can open them in FreeCAD, though not wothbthe full parametric history.
Thanks for the tip. Just watched a bunch of 1.1 tutorial videos and it actually seems like it could be a better workflow for my use cases than Fusion, plus it also does BIM.
I’m nearly at the end of my journey to boycott Adobe and Autodesk for good. I dropped 3dsmax for Blender a while back after Autodesk attempted to audit me. They demanded I download an app that would collect detailed information about my computer, so I said go fuck yourself, uninstalled and canceled my paid subs, then downloaded Blender and besides missing V-ray and Forestpack, has been a much better experience.
I’ll have to try it again at some point. I found it kinda brutal last time I tried it, and was gonna just try the blender plugin that adds some parametric features next time
If things have improved I guess I’ll have to give it another go at some point
It was the same for me, but 1.1 made a huge leap in usability
that’s what I’m definitely doing after this project, I’m tired of proprietary software and fusion is the last thing I need to cut off
You can run it through Winboat or via a standard VM, but like Adobe they hate you running it via Wine, and will try to block you from doing so.
So your best bet will be VM+GPU passthrough.
If you happen to have an education account, you can stream it through your browser.
didnt know that, I’ll try this
