fusion

Attention over time

7-day rolling share of analyzed posts/comments mentioning this entity · 90 daily points ending 2026-09-01

Final complete day: 2026-09-01. Attention was 0.3% — this entity appeared in 58 of 17,943 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (70 mentions).

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1. 2026-09-01 21:49 UTCComment

   I would look at some of slant 3ds videos on part design for fdm on youtube. Great learning resource about this type of thing. Honestly doing anything like that is kind of a pita in tinkercad, I started in tinker also, but wish I had moved on sooner, it was worth learning a real cad package, I would have saved myself a ton of time long term. Onshape is web based and free (if you are ok with your models being available online), fusion 360 is free for personal use both are much better for part design once you get over a bit of learning curvem even newer versions of freecad are worth looking at compared to tinker. (I prefer onshape's interface it was just more intuitive for me than fusions). With onshape for example you would just add mate connectors where you want and then do a transform on one part to move it to the mate connector. As far as the actual connectors dovetails work well, other wood working style connectors also work well. Depends on how you plan to print and join them. There are also different connector designs that lock and unlock for 3d printing, just depends on what you are trying to do.

2. 2026-09-01 21:16 UTCComment

   Hold up, to export a model as STL in Fusion you literally just right click it in the browser tree and choose *Save As Mesh* \- no “couple hoops” to jump through?

3. 2026-09-01 20:16 UTCComment

   I like fusion. Plenty of tutorials. For basic functional prints it'll do everything you need.

4. 2026-09-01 18:49 UTCComment

   Fusion, Onshape, and Solid Edge are all free for personal use. Solidworks has a maker license for around $50 a year. In my opinion Fusion is probably the best option for new users and hobbyists. It’s got a pretty streamlined interface that lets you get started without having to know a whole lot about the program and there’s tons of tutorials and online help available since it’s so popular for hobbyists. I’ve heard good things about Onshape but it’s 100% web browser based and Onshape has access to all your files which means they’re probably using you to train AI. Solidworks has a steeper learning curve than Fusion, but it can do more than Fusion and the maker license doesn’t have as many limitations as Fusion’s free license. If you have the time and patience Solid Edge is the holy grail on paper. The free version does everything the full version does, it works entirely offline without ever having to log in to anything, and it does standalone 2d drafting. It’s clunky as hell though and you very quickly realize why nobody uses it and Siemens gives it away for free.

5. 2026-09-01 17:38 UTCComment

   For an absolute beginner I’d use TinkerCad. It’s dead simple, free, and fast, and teaches you some concepts. After that Fusion, with a hobbyist license (it’s free / year). It’s a lot more complex, but still easy to learn. Both made by AutoCAD.