Fusion 360

Dell isn't a system. It's a manufacturer. However they run Windows. Mac used Mac OS. There is also Linux. F360 works on both Windows (64bit) and Mac OS. However, the operating system and manufacturer of the computer is only half of the story. There are processors (CPU), RAM, and graphics cards (GPU) to consider.

What's particularly unique about F360 is the fact that it is cloud based. This reduces some on the strain on the system. The requirements to run fusion really aren't much. As long as you have a decent CPU and graphics card (whether built into the CPU or not) with 8gb of RAM, you're good.

There was another post about this a few days ago. As PC building is a hobby for me, I'm the last person that shot be responding to this as I tend to go a bit overboard.

 

Yeah, same here, really. The two systems I'm running are both self-built. The shop computer's i5-4670K quad-core based, 16GB RAM, no current GPU though I have an old 1GB Radeon floating around from my fight with LinuxCNC that should go into it at some point. Win 10 Home because I had a disc lying around.

That got relegated after I built my new main machine, i7-5820K hex-core, 16GB RAM (needs more because it's single-channel and I have 8 slots in the X-99 board!), GTX 1070FE. Win 10 Pro that I've carried through from an OG Win 7 Pro student upgrade from a 2007 Dell Vista laptop. Needs a couple more drives too. I guess I technically haven't finished building it yet, after two years?

I don't use Fusion enough on the shop computer to be able to comment on its performance, unfortunately. Perfectly happy with it on this machine, of course.

I think the question needs a little more specificity, too. What information are you actually looking for?

 

Because it is cloud based Fusion can be a bit slow sometimes, but I personally am very happy with it. One downside - it's rubbish at importing DXF's - especially 3d ones!
Alex.

 

Oh, the office computer, by far. This is my photo/video/3D/CAD workstation, my internet and Steam daily driver, I almost live in front of this machine.

When I can get some better LAN file serving on the go, I'm hoping it becomes a mix of both. I don't think Fusion really requires this much power, though it's certainly nice once the component complexities and part counts start going up, but for a lot of individual parts down in the shop I'm quite sure the other machine will do just fine. Electronics and programming would be more convenient on the shop machine too, since it lives on the electronics bench.

 

My current desktop build:
AMD 2700X
ASRock X470 Taichi
32gb 3200mhz Corsair RAM
MSI GTX 970 (waiting for the 2070 Super cards)
All SSD, no spinny drives

My laptop uses an i7-5700HQ with a 960M and 16gb. It easily handles whatever I throw at it.

The main issue I see with these programs is the program itself. F360 and SketchUp start to slow down heavily once the line count starts getting high. I haven't seen this degradation with AutoCad, but then again, it's more for 2D than 3D. The last program I use is eCabinets (Thermwood). Neither machine has an issue with that either.

What F360 does really nicely is talk between multiple computers. I need to try to setup some kind of server setup for all of the non cloud based programs.

As for what I use the most? I make rough parts in SketchUp just to make sure the idea would work as SKP is way easier to just put ideas on paper. Once I figure out what I want, I go back and refine them in one of the other three programs, depending on the application.