Fusion360 vs Solidworks

[RB211]

It is interesting that the EAA student edition also comes with the cam license. I haven't even looked at it beyond installing it.

[daveo]

I taught myself how to use Fusion in a 3 day weekend and watching some youtube vids. Not ever using another cad program either. I seem to like it, there are multiple ways to achieve the same result of a feature on a part. A little like windows, its fairly user friendly.....

[tom_d]

Fusion is the only reason I am still running a windows virtual machine...

Does it only run on windows, or can I run Fusion on a linux computer?

[elf]

Does it only run on windows, or can I run Fusion on a linux computer?

If it did, he wouldn't be using the windows virtual machine There is a browser version which will work in Linux, but you'd be better off running in the virtual machine.

p.s. It does run on a mac.

[tom_d]

I'm not 100% up to speed on the virtual machine. Do I have windows put inside a linux system and let windows sit doing nothing until I need Fusion, or is linux operating on a windows machine, that's always stopping in the middle of something important to do some major updates to features I don't use?

[RB211]

I'm not 100% up to speed on the virtual machine. Do I have windows put inside a linux system and let windows sit doing nothing until I need Fusion, or is linux operating on a windows machine, that's always stopping in the middle of something important to do some major updates to features I don't use?

Virtual machine can be either Win10 running inside a window on a linux box, or vice versa. You can pause it, restart it, what ever you want with it just like another program. You can use them for a multitude of things, from playing with viruses, screwing with hackers, playing old dos games, to running a simulated computer network for practice.

[MrFluffy]

There are some high end software packages that check for if the host machine is virtualized and refuse to start up if they detect the hooks in the core os as its not licensed to run in a virtual instance to avoid you cloning the instance to a different hypervisor (ie multiple copies, different machines same license). Same trick with malware/viruses that are written competently (because lots of security researchers use a virtual machine as a sandbox to study them).

I don't know if any of the very expensive cad packages pull this trick, but I'd want to be certain before I paid out for the license.