Heard that, but one thing I learned from a guy years ago, “money is like water”, it flows to the lowest places, therefore you can tilt the table to your advantage. I can manipulate the numbers that would save them a lot of money… but you don’t want to over do it..
John,
I’m guessing you most likely tried this already, but here is a way to get things across when the communication lines are blurry.
It’s pretty much how I convinced management to switch to SolidWorks. Estimate what it would imply to switch from one to the other, and don’t forget to bring in dollar figures, including time saved and what-not. It’s quite an exercice to do, but it is something most people will understand. A lot of people have an easier time understanding dollar figures then understanding pro’s and cons, especially when they have no idea what context it pertains to. Dollar figures are universal.
If you can, find things that aren’t going great inside the company and show how you could address these issues with SolidWorks
The last time I gave F360 a try, which was about 6 months ago, they finally had assemblies.
Does anyone have any insight into the possibility of Autodesk’s intent of fazing out Inventor only to replace it with the cloud-based F360?
Given Autodesk’s track record of planned obsolescence, “possibility” seems to be the wrong word. 
My feeling is that they are creating a new market with Fusion 360. They are targeting all of those frustrated sketchup users who want to do more, but don’t want to spend a lot of money. There’s a bunch of people with 3d printers, laser cutters, cnc machines, etc. that aren’t going to buy SW/SE/IV. That doesn’t mean the time won’t come where the eliminate IV. I really know nothing about the company, just how they were marketing F360 in the beginning.
Just to clear up a few things…F360 has pretty much always had Assemblies, they just approach it in a more Top Down methodology way than say Solidworks or Inventor which is a bit more Bottom Up approach. This isn’t to say that you can’t use the Top Down approach in Solidworks or Inventor it’s just that in F360 that is really the only approach because everything is always there. F360 is still a local install and can be run offline say in comparison to OnShape which is 100% browser based and cannot run without internet access.
Inventor will never go away as the level of functionality and the direction of F360 are going in a different direction. There is a lot of overlap but they will always exist side by side.
Also I don’t see what the company can’t have both side by side…say 3 seats of F360 and 1 seat of Solidworks. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing scenario.
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Multibody parts are not the same as assemblies.
Clearly this is a given. What’s this have to do with the fact that F360 has always had Assembly modeling?
Does F360 do configurations yet? How about reusable parts?
I dabbled with F360 several years go and there were no configurations and reusing parts was a MAJOR kluge.
That made the whole thing nothing more than a toy to me.
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Does F360 do configurations yet? How about reusable parts?
I dabbled with F360 several years go and there were no configurations and reusing parts was a MAJOR kluge.
That made the whole thing nothing more than a toy to me.
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You can use Excel to create design tables similar to SW. I am proficient in Solidworks (user since 1998) and have found that Fusion is more than capable. Someone proficient using solid modeling, detailed engineering drawings and CAD/CAM will find it can do most things and with some creativity do anything. It is easy to create configurations, templates, automation tools, etc. to speed up the design process.
Here is an example for the excel spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sowyLuwxi78
Soooo, you need an add-in to do configurations?
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The cost of SolidWorks subscription went up 25% this year… 
But you have the choice of not renewing but retain the use of the software and all your data, no so with Fusion 360.
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