Fusion Problems

[cropwell]

Well, I fired up the Win10 machine and loaded Fusion to it. Sod it - it works OK ! I was looking for an excuse to go to Linux on that machine dammit dammit dammit !!!!!
I suppose I will just have to bite the bullet and not let my seething loathing of Microshaft control practicality.

Graeme, looking at the system on the win7 machine, it looks as though the onboard Intel HD graphics were using 250MB of RAM.

So it looks as though I am set up to learn Fusion now.

Cheers,

Rob

[Neale]

So it looks as though I am set up to learn Fusion now.

...and you'll never look back! Takes a bit of getting used to, as the whole approach to "modelling" with a tool like this is rather different to the "drawing" approach of older 2D CAD. but it gets to be a natural way to do things. The CAM side is pretty handy, too, with things like adaptive clearing easily available. I like it a lot. I still use Vectric VCarve, though, for things like lettering as it is just so good at doing that, and the CAM side works very well at the v-carving side of things.

I run F360 on a couple of machines with at least 1GB graphics cards - but given that my garage machine that just runs the router needed a graphics card replaced, and a 1GB card cost less than £25, that seems to be classed as "entry level" these days...

[cropwell]

My son is interested in Fusion 360, he teaches design and technology, so hopefully he can get a freebie. I an interested in it because I am getting titsed off with what sketchup can't do or won't do properly (I would never spend money on that software, it is crap). My son is interested in laying photos onto sculpted forms. I want to 3D print a case for an electronic (MIDI) harmonica I am developing.

In the meantime here is a lithophane 3D printed from a photo using Cura. My first attempt, I am very happy with it.