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For a non-commercial setting I would never touch anything autodesk. You can clearly see how f360 was changed from maker-friendly price to essentially the same price as a professional cad license within a few years with a clear directed strategy to capture the market. I might still be ok if you consider it includes cam/sim, but again only in a professional context. And make no mistake, the software is cloud+subscription only. f360 doesn't allow you to work on assemblies when offline, or export meshes, and some other arbitrary restrictions that make no sense except to limit offline mode.

If you have the money, and you're fine with windows, I would suggest alibre with the offline license as one of the few options available.

I've bitten the bullet and went with a mixture of freecad/openscad/cadquery/solvespace for my hobby designs. It's more work due to the limits, but zero regrets.



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