[Volunteers] Creating a 'Migrating to FreeCAD from Fusion360' guide

[Kunda1]

Here is the wiki page: Migrating to FreeCAD from Fusion360
Feel free to edit it. Make sure you make small edits since several people may be hacking on it simultaneously

[drmacro]

Maybe we should have a few appointed editors and others can recommend additions???

I'll actually volunteer to be a designee.

[vanuan]

Is there an example part model to be demoed for side by side comparison?

[drmacro]

Is there an example part model to be demoed for side by side comparison?

JOKO engineering has done several on YouTube.

[vanuan]

Here's a tutorial on how to edit existing model in Fusion 360:

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There are 2 approaches:
1. Using timeline (very similar to recompute in FreeCAD, but has more freedom and better UX)
2. Using spreasheet (I think this one can be mapped almost 1 to 1 in FreeCAD)


Here's an advanced tutorial that could showcase FreeCADs assembly and animation feature:

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Here's a somewhat simpler model:

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[vanuan]

JOKO engineering has done several on YouTube.

I mean take a well known part that every beginner in Fusion 360 has to learn how to build and document how to recreate it in FreeCAD.

[drmacro]

Side by side:

https://youtu.be/kirDbZd0dvI

[vanuan]

FreeCAD workflow is different than Fusion360. It is a parametric modeler in comparison to Fusion360 which is a direct modeler.

Is it true? To me it seems that FreeCAD just lacks the UI to manipulate shapes (doesn't support 3D constraints). Fusion 360 does support the constraint-based geometry pretty well. Could you explain the difference more clearly?

[vocx]

Here's a tutorial on how to edit existing model in Fusion 360:
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See also this, a comparison with Solid Works, V0.19 Benchmarking--Intermediate Level Tutorials

[vanuan]

It seems I misunderstood this topic. I thought this is for introduction of FreeCAD workflow to Fusion 360 users. But in fact this is supposed to be a howto convert files created in Fusion 360 to the format FreeCAD can open.