Here since the buyout, (by www.wyrmwoodgaming.com), no one cares about engineering, basically doesn’t understand or comprehend that it takes an Engineering dept to get this thing right, but no, their basic way is Neanderthal at best. SW is too expensive, Fusion 360 is their go to product - Is there a good way to go from SW to 360?
No, its too much different.
Even from Inventor to Fusion.
No assembly. All files on cloud.
File management is, a dump on cloud.
This is a question I’ve been wondering about as well. I’m not a big fan of cloud CAD, but there are some pieces of 360 that are fascinating. Like subd modeling and Tsplines, and other stuff. There is a lot to be curious about. Can you explain what you’re talking about with wyrmwoodgaming?
I’m with Fredrick. I don’t see a reasonable way to port anything from SW to F360. Going from SW to Inventor or the other direction would be hard enough.
That being said is SW too expensive because of the maintenance? If so I doubt that anything near the level of SW is going to be significantly less expensive.
Are you using the lowest level package of SW? Can you “Share” licenses if you have more than one?
I can’t imagine using F360 all day everyday for anything terribly productive. It’s a great “Hobbiest” piece of software but no where near a professional level piece of software.
Wyrmwood gaming does not understand the Engineering Process at all, that’s problem number Uno. The owner can’t grasp or understand a 2D drawing, hand sketch, unless he makes his own sketch, anything else doesn’t come close to comprehension, also any 3D model might as well be written in the Old Egyptian calligraphy.
For some reason pricing for the subscription is one big chunk here, because they made a bonehead decision to purchase 2 more seats, which one will probably never get used, so the thought process is that they don’t need a high end seat of software to do what they do. Here we could out design the production capacity in just 2 to 3 week, so they don’t need speed.
Changes happen on the floor without any Engineering Change Notice, and then it comes back in hear with, the “Drawings are Wrong” mentality.
I had laid out a plan for the Engineering Dept Structure, semi comprehensive, but I should have written it in a lower grade grammar and used block & stick letters, gruntled employee, for sure…
They got no Clue
Gather a group of investors.
Buy Wyrmwood when the time is right.
I believe you’ll figure that out.
They need to focus on the product they want to make.
Stay away from managing production.
First thing you will NEED is this:
https://3dconnexion.com/us/spacemouse/
otherwise you will start to throw chairs.
Not by a long shot, it’ll take mills mills and more mills to buy Wyrmwood
Kick them when they are down.
They’re not going down, they have a Kickstarter every month, guessing the smallest would probably be 1 or 2 mill, others will be huge.. These guys are not going down, they have an awesome approach when it comes to sales and how they release product, it will be an awesome company to work for, however from the Engineering side of things, they are still acting like cave men…
Go to Wyrmwood Youtube and sit back and relax.. They spend like a 100 times more on media then design/engineering, but that is what sells, design/engineering is a cost.
As an RPG gamer, I’m familiar with their products. My guess is they were a small company that recently got big and don’t have a good handle on engineering processes and standards. They are artisans and gamers which tend toward the right brain more so than the left so I could see them being resistant to it.
This sounds like a dream job, for me at least, but I would probably feel the same way you do. My left and right brains fight over this stuff all the time but the left usually wins.
Dream Job… It really is, however with any buyout, it takes a while to settle in, there are a lot of changes that need to be made, major production, flushing the Keystone Legacy stuff, plant layout changes, personnel changes.. Just a lot of stuff going on, having said what I said, I don’t feel any different with the Design/Engineering comments that I made. The difference is we all got a raise, the guys are absolutely fun to work with, being able to see Doug, Jason, Johnny, Bobby and JV, plus others at a regular basis, is pretty cool. These guys are fun..
Go to the Wyrmwood Youtube channel to get your latest Wyrmlife Fix, twice a week, Wednesday & Friday releases.
If they don’t change, they will go down.
You can work with no standard, no planning on art and 1’s 2’s.
Once you need production of 10’s with 100 different configs, you can’t wink it.
Anyone can pitch a kickstart with great photos.
Only a few actually deliver their product.
Some struggled to deliver first batch of 100’s then fold.
Some paid out of their pocket then fold.
These guys are Kickstarter/Youtube Channel Experts, that combination makes them have more money then brains, but they’ll get it together.. Do some research and you’ll see they have been insanely successful on Kickstarter…
They need to keep delivering products to stay successful.
That’s why they got Keystone.
The more successful they’re on YouTube and Kickstart, the more pressure on manufacturing.
Once supply cannot keep up with demand, it start to come apart.
People, consumer always looking for the “new” and “hot”.
Once they turn away, they won’t come back.
They’ll need a big team in behind to support their dream and fantasy.
They don’t know they need that yet.
Get ready for when they want that team.
Isn’t SW a perpetual license? You can lapse your subs and be good for years
For F360? I used it for a while on some home project stuff and most certainly found it awkward, what does the mouse get you to make it better?
Less mouse hand cramps?
That’s actually a great idea. I did this with Adesk multiple times because I did not feel I got any support and rarely if ever used any of the “New features” they added. All I did was upgrade and spend a week trying to get all the settings back to where I had them before the upgrade 
Roasted By John You can let someone else work on F360 and you can work on an unsupported SW license and then keep track of who’s more productive and why. Management likes numbers and if you show them that using F360 actually COSTS them money, then they’ll pay for SW. You do that without costing them a dime.