How's the state of fusion360 on linux?
2026-05-03 07:20 UTC
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@Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-03 07:23
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.
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@neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-03 07:52
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.
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@anguo@piefed.ca 2026-05-03 10:41
If you happen to have an education account, you can stream it through your browser.
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@beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-03 11:02
Its not FOSS but it works great on Linux in the browser… OnShape
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@JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 2026-05-03 11:28
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.