Autodesk Releases 'Inventor Fusion' on Mac App Store

[TMay]

I'm very impressed that Autodesk released Fusion for free! It's a very powerful and capable App, and now a major threat to Google Sketchup.

Sketchup was spun off last year if I'm not mistaken.

 

[polaris20]

Is anyone having problems with Inventor Fusion locking up under ML? I'm having a rough go with it, unfortunately.

 

[DaveSM]

Fusion is like Inventor LT but from 5 years into the future.

It also uses a tree, but the tree is infinitely more powerful... Fusion works considerably differently, much slicker and more powerful in a lot of ways than Inventor, like something from the future, and Inventor is continually taking on more and more aspects of Fusion like bits of UI & now the modeling engine... but Fusion is nowhere as complete as Inv yet, lacking some of the more intensive features, like Lofting, Parametrics, & FEA & whatnot.

I installed it, found there's not a lot we design that we can use it for right this moment, but I'm leaving it installed, and will keep a close eye on future updates with great interest.

The prospect of tying in a rapid prototyping service or directory of providers would be huge for small firms & independents.

I'll keep an eye on it as well but the death blow was that geometry wasn't updated when I modified the original sketch used to generate a revolved shape. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong but, for me, it as a major drawback for any modeling app. I want to be able to go back tweek my sketch and update the geometry.

 

[dukebound85]

I'll keep an eye on it as well but the death blow was that geometry wasn't updated when I modified the original sketch used to generate a revolved shape. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong but, for me, it as a major drawback for any modeling app. I want to be able to go back tweek my sketch and update the geometry.

I have noticed that too. I am used to, for example, creating a cylinder by making a sketch of a circle of radius x and then extruding it. If I need to change the radius, I could go back into sketch mode, change it and the cyclinder would update

With fusion, editing the sketch seems to do nothing to the extrusion

or I am just missing something

 

[Supermacguy]

Answering my own question, on my MPro 1,1 with Lion, I was able to download it and run it. I started the app and made a cube, so it "runs" but I didn't go into more testing to see how well the video card rendering works. But it "works".

 

[champ01]

You can download it directly, avoid all of the Mac App store problems:
http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/fusion/downloadform/

From all the online stores I think it is save to say that the Appstore has the least problems. In other words.. Its unsane not to use the Appstore.

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

Sketchup was spun off last year if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, you're right! I never noticed =D

 

[Funkier9000]

I'm having freezing issues as well. It ran fine for a while but when I'd make an assembly with more than 10 parts it freezes. I don't have to force quit but the software becomes unresponsive. I can save it and quit but all functionality becomes lost. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the issues persist.

I'm on a new macbook pro i7 running 10.8.

 

[shaaung33]

thks for your information.... keep on posting....