Fusion 360 Win 10 EOL

Thanks! Always nice to be appreciated, though I mostly posted that because I want folks to know that stuff is happening in the FreeCAD world- just 'cause it annoyed the snot out of you and crashed 3 months ago doesn't mean it's not noticeably better now (again, at least in the weekly builds).

I'm also just unreasonably excited about that particular feature... mostly because the lack of it has been creating tedium for my CAM workflow. But also- to your point- because from the outside it looks like a super complicate thing to do. Turns out it's been a ton of work, but pretty straightforward. The actual toolpath generation voodoo was already there, I "just" needed to wrap it up with code to automatically find where to machine. That much is at least intuitively "easy" ("cut away everything that is in the stock AND not in the model").

my1987toyota wrote:

Well it's official January 2026 Autodesk Fusion 360 will no longer support Windows 10 . Either switch
to Windows 11 or you can no longer use fusion 360.


 

I think I've got a solution that won't entirely suck: Win 11 Enterprise LTSC

No AI, no features updates, no bloat, no MS store.  10 years of security updates.

I've been running W10 LTSC for a few years and it's what Windoze should be.  Fast, clean, no garbage, no crashes, no surprises after an update.  I bought a 5-pack of Win10LTSC licenses in 2020 and have had no issues on any of the installations.

CDW has a license for $200, but pckeys.uk has them for around 40 UK bongo-bucks and they get cheaper for multi-packs if you have a few PC's to do.

I don't know the difference between Enterprise LTSC, Enterprise N LTSC, and IOT Enterprise LTSC, but I know IOT allows you to remove a bunch of software/services during install.

I'll be doing some more research to pick a flavor, but this is the route I'm taking for those of us who need to remain on Win for F360 and other reasons.

my1987toyota wrote:

rodw Do you still use Fusion 360? If not what are you using now?

Yes, sneaky buggers charged my card on the renewal. Wasn't planning to.
I've only done one job in the last 12 months......
All my parts are sheetmetal and laser cut these days (or made in India or China), inserted about 300 nutserts today. Thank god I have a pneumatic tool!

lgrfbs wrote:

So it's not just jumping over to Linux and Mac doesn't appeal to me.
The day Alibre Design and the software to connect the 3D scanners to get the data is in Linux, then I can switch away from Windows.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Have you looked at onshape? Browser driven but no CAM. Free if you share your parts

Yes, I have tested OnShape at the time when everything was free and you could choose which objects would be public, many years ago now.
Can use as a doodle to figure out a geometric problem/puzzle, but not something I would use for my hobby, where I want my source files with me and not public, so for that reason I rarely log into OnShape.
The FreeCAD gang should have a platinum medal for all the work they do, at the moment the CAM part is the one that appeals to me most there.

rodw wrote:

my1987toyota wrote:

rodw Do you still use Fusion 360? If not what are you using now?
Yes, sneaky buggers charged my card on the renewal. Wasn't planning to.
I've only done one job in the last 12 months......
All my parts are sheetmetal and laser cut these days (or made in India or China), inserted about 300 nutserts today. Thank god I have a pneumatic tool!
 

Crap that suck. 300 inserts yikes, how long before your hands stopped vibrating?