A lot depends on what parts you are designing. Simple, single parts with mostly geometric surfaces can be done even on a low-end laptop PC. But if you want to model an entire CNC machine with every ball screw, bearing and fastener and moving part with movement constraints for what parts are fixed and which rotate, and which of them slide then you need a bigger PC. 32GB RAM and 6 to 8 cores and importantly a GOOD GPU. Just buy an Nvidia 3050 or something like that. Most real projects have hundreds of parts. But for small single-part hobby projects, any PC will work
I've actually experimented. I can add and remove CPU cores and RAM in VMware and see the effect on performance. The worst thing is when you remove the Nvidia GPU and use software-graphics. It becomes unusable-slow. Performance becomes good with 4-core and 24 GB. But if buying a new computer, I'd at least double those specs, and get the best GPU I could afford. When Autodesk finally gets off their buts and releases an Apple Silicon native version of Fusion360, the obvious platform will be the Mac with perhaps a couple of 4K monitors attached. But we might be very old before they do this. On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 9:22 AM Thaddeus Waldner <thadw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’ve done Fusion 360 CAD/CAM classes with middle school kids (age 10-14). > While it was mostly an exercise on how to follow instructions, many of them > knew their way around the software and could begin making changes on their > own by the time it was over. > > I reiterate that it is a resource hog, much more so than Solidworks or > Onshape. It becomes painfully slow on anything with less than 16gb memory > or with mediocre single-threaded CPU performance. It seems that none of > those CAD packages are optimized much for multi-core processors. > > > On Oct 21, 2022, at 6:04 PM, Matthew Herd <herd.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I use fusion on both windows and Mac. Mostly Mac. > > > > Matthew Herd > > > > > >> On Oct 21, 2022, at 6:52 PM, Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> So, following on from the CAM discussion and all the love shown to > Fusion 360 > >> > >> Has anyone tried: > >> > >> https://all3dp.com/2/fusion-360-for-linux-how-to-install-it/ > >> > >> or something similar? > >> > >> Or do you all use Windows or Mac? > >> > >> Martin > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
