Onshape runs in a browser. Fusion 360 is a native app for Windows and Mac. You can run Onshape in Chrome on a Linux system. To run Fusion360 on Linux, you need to run it in a virtual machine with Windows.
If people have bought older PCs to run LinuxCNC, you do not want o run any kind of CAD on those old clunkers. CAD is the reason you buy a high-end PC with good graphics and lots of RAM. A 10-year-old PC will just spin the pinwheel and foe you to wait if you ask it to do anything complex. For CAD work you want the same computer the kids want for their video games. On Linux, your choices for CAD and other engineering software are very limited almost none of the professional-level software runs on Linux. Except for Onshape which runs on Chrome. Surprisingly Onshape is very fast. You might think that a browser-based 3D CAD would be sluggish but Onshape on my Linux system is MUCH faster than Fusion360 on my iMac. The comparison is slightly un-fair because my Linux PC is a 16-core Xeon with 64GB RAM, and Nvidia GPU card while my iMac is an older 4-core i5. But it is not unfair because this shows that Onshape can take advantage of higher-end graphics and faster CPUs. If you are running Linux, Onshape is the best thing out there in terms of 3D CAD. But it lacks Fusion's CAM system. Fusion has very good toolpath generation with many options for roughing and finish work and toolpath visualization. It is possible to use a very much mixed workflow. I'm thinking that for 3D CAD Onshape might be my best option and then I move the part to Fusion 360 to generate a toolpath for milling or to Cura for slicing if the part is to be printed. The data stays on the file server so it is right there on every computer. I am much more famiar with Fusion than Onshape, but I'm liking some of what Onshape does. Onshape is much better data-handling and version control than does Fusion but lacks Fusion's CAM features. I should be able to combine the best of each in my workflow. Finally there is a computer in the shop that runs both LinuxCNC and "Octoprint" and this computer is physically connected to both the milling machine and to my 3D printer. Surprisingly the computer has no problem at all running a Mill and a printer at the same time and also steaming video so I can monitor the printer from the office PCs or my iPhone. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:07 AM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 02:16, Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Very cool, shame it doesn't run on Linux. > > > > I think that you can run Fusion in a web browser, so that might be an > option for Linux. > > I use Fusion a lot, but I hate myself for it. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed > for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
