Fusion 360

[Mathaeus]

Found this name in recent discussions here, google returned this.
For my out-of-any-CAD mind, looks like mix of tSpines, standard NURBS stuff and Silo interface. And cloud based. Jut out of curiosity, anyone tried it, anyone is able to comment...

[ctedin]

Yeah, not to toot anything reassembling automess's horn, it's a pretty killer app. Inexpensive, but a lot of power. You can do something resembling subd modeling, clean it up using tsplines, convert to solids, boolean, filets, most of the power of solidworks, assemble parts and even export to maya or soft with iges to clean nurbs surfaces. Nice raytracer renderer built in. Great for product design and I'm using it in my package design class currently. Runs great on a mac. Hate to say it, but it looks like automess has been focusing on this product at the expense of softimage.

[Letterbox]

it's a pretty killer app, really??

Wouldn't know, as if you click on the link "View overview video" it craps out.

C'est La - Autodesk.

[Mathaeus]

well, as I said, other videos shows a pretty interesting fusion of standard Nurbs trims and blends, and subds behavior on Nurbs, where one of examples looks almost the same as well known old one, of t-spline plugin for Rhino. Some interesting non destructive workflow too, at least for standards of nurbs apps. In case of Rhino as main nurbs modeler, combo cost much much more than AD thing, and there's fact, that mentioned plugin for Rhino is now owned by, guess who, AD.
I also don't want to go into unethical stories, AD and so on. But, it's a kind of shame that Rhino itself, didn't get that subds-on-nurbs functionality in all these years.

[luceric]

Someone will fix the Fusion 360 web site video, in the mean time you can use the youtube channel instead.

https://www.youtube.com/user/AutodeskFusion360

[Rez007]

Are there any perpetual licenses, or is it only rental? I guess the annual is pretty cheap already, but I was just curious.

[ActionArt]

I think rental only. If you search, you can find the 2013 version for free and try it a bit. I'm not sure how much it's improved since then.