One of the major reasons why using Linux on a desktop system is unsuitable for many is due to the lack of Linux support for many major applications, including Autodesk Fusion 360. Naturally, using Wine this should be easy in an ideal world, but realistically getting something like Fusion 360 set up and ready to log in with Wine will take some serious time. Fortunately [Steve Zabka] created some shell scripts to automate the process. As demonstrated by [Tech Dregs] on YouTube, this seems to indeed work on a Fedora system, with just a few glitches.
Among these glitches are some rendering artefacts like application controls remaining on the desktop after closing the application, in-application line rendering and [Tech Dregs] was unable to switch from the DirectX 9 renderer to the DirectX 11 one. Since Fusion 360 will soon drop DirectX 9 and OpenGL support, this would seem to be rather an important detail. The GitHub project seems to indicate that this should work, but [Tech Drags] reported only getting a black screen after switching.
Clearly, using applications like Fusion 360 on Linux isn’t quite what you’d want to use for a production workflow in a commercial setting (even ignoring lack of Autodesk support), but it could be useful for students and others who’d like to not switch to Windows or MacOS just to use this kind of software for a course or hobbyist use.
Or you could just use FreeCAD.
FreeCAD is so bad I’d rather use Windows than FreeCAD.
FreeCAD is free and unencumbered. It will always get better. Fusion will only get more restricted. Luckily for you, you have a choice.
Non-sequitur. There are a lot of dead and buried projects that were “free and unencumbered” — open-source isn’t some magical guarantee against a project dying.
The beauty of it being free is if/when it becomes better than Fusion 360 switching to it will only require the bare minimum when someone switches software and no costs or terrible license agreements.
For right now, however, I don’t blame anyone that uses Fusion 360 instead.
I prefer FreeCAD for almost 90% DIY projects. It’s very fast and has intuitive ui. Never success to run Fusion in Linux (wine/arch), tried 3-4 times.
How about Onshape on Linux?
I bit the bullet a few years ago, ditched Fusion and learned FreeCAD.
MangoJelly has brilliant tutorials: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuyJLVUNtc3UYXXfSglVpfWdX31F-e5S
There are those who need hand holding to learn. Fusion can do that. FreeCAD, does not have the hand holding aspect, so, it takes an effort that many are unwilling to invest. And, there are some things Fusion, having a multi-million dollar budget and salaried engineers, is going to do better.