With a seat of Plant 3D, we got a copy of Inventor Fusion on the thumb drive with the install files.
I was installing Autocad on my personal laptop and installed Inventor Fusion to go with it, and check it out.
It's... LIKE... Inventor, but it's not very parametric, it lacks useful constraints, it's manner of driving the solid generation is quirky, and if you modify a sketch - it does not update the solid automatically. It works natively with a .dwg but uses an Inventor based interface, basically.
Anyone else use this?
I very much prefer a parametric modeling program for parts generation and design, rather than Autocad's typical solids modeling. I'd /rather/ have full blown Inventor/Solidworks, but this seems to be a decent compromise without costing me any money, although it's like... Inventor LT.
The other kick in the nuts is that I can't appear to do assemblies! pft.
So anyone have any experience/tips? Are any of my impressions wrong or differing from your own?
Even given my complaints, it seems like quite the valuable resource to people familiar with an Inventor/Solidworks type UI for solids modeling, but work in a place with primarily Autocad, Revit, etc software, that doesn't include Inventor/Solidworks.
It is, so far, quite neutered, however. I'm working on it though... see what I can do with it.
