The Simulation team decided that their efforts needed to support the robust needs of analysts, and SIM 360 was removed from the 360 platform and … well stopped being SIM 360 (While I wholeheartedly agree with the enhancement that analysts need, is there not room for that in the SIM 360 product?). The entire Simulation product line reverted to desktop with the cloud solve option appearing under the name of “Simulation FLEX”.Īfter a sudden surge of really nice, real-need design and engineering enhancements last year, the Fusion product team continued to state that Fusion 360 was not being developed to fulfill the larger scope of mechanical engineering needs. Then something happened…Ī360 seemed to stall PLM 360 began to list with no real direction towards the seemingly obvious needs of the SMB market.

There was a lot of momentum, and a lot of possibilities to benefit the small to medium design business In the future. Fusion was continuing to be enhanced with support for parametric and history based modelling, as the product team got a feel for what was needed in the market that it was being designed for. One of my favorite benefits was the cohesive model platform, where upon the really slick SIM 360 product could sit right along-side the incoming CAM 360 platform, which I wrote about in 2012. Fusion 360 offered a host of benefits surrounding cloud technologies.

Inventor Fusion became Fusion 360 as it jumped to the cloud. As the product continued to grow and be proven, various CAD functionalities were handed off to Autodesk Inventor. Initially, as Inventor Fusion, it was being developed as a test bed for new ways of approaching design problems, which rapidly formed into one hell of a disfeaturing platform and companion to Simulation software. The company has taken the product for a few turns along the course of its life. Wow! That promotion is a fantastic deal, provided that the product will continue to be developed. That subscription is currently $1200 USD. The PromotionĪutodesk put out a promotion for Fusion 360 recently: Buy the annual subscription now at regular price of $300 USD / year, and receive a license upgrade to Fusion 360 Ultimate for as long as you maintain your subscription. The product and business team have taken a few sudden turns in the past, and few of us really have a grip on what’s going on. In the wake of the new subscription promotion, and a noticeable trend of Fusion 360 and A360 marketing as we head towards Autodesk University, I was inclined to know more about what is really going on in the Autodesk Fusion camp.

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