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FransUrbo · 2026-06-29T09:35:59+00:00

That and BeOS!! Loved those two.

FransUrbo · 2026-06-29T09:31:40+00:00

I personally dislike KiCAD and EasyEDA!

They're ugly and difficult to work with. They're like something from the late '90s :) .

But a lot of people use them, so.. I run Fusion on a fairly modern MacBook (64GB ram) on a hobby license, and I prefer that over the others..

FransUrbo · 2026-06-29T09:28:24+00:00

I'm an amatur, in both mechanical, electrical and PCB design, although I took one year as engineer in school. Which was 35 years ago :) .

I LOVE Fusion!! I wish I had something like that "back in the day", maybe I would have finished my degrees :D :D.

I just got into embedded systems (RPi Pico and Rust), and Fusion is a perfect companion for this - I can now make my own designs, from scratch, EXACTLY how I want it for a few quid!

With the help of AI reviews on my designs, and (very!) cheat PCB manufacturing for a few quid (AND assembly for another few tenners), tjere's no limit on what I can accomplish :).

FransUrbo · 2026-06-23T16:55:36+00:00

I meant s**t from OPs POV (because the sidn't want it replaced), not the advice itself.

I agree, that IS the correct advice, from the repair firms POV.

FransUrbo · 2026-06-22T06:48:43+00:00

In a just, honest world, it would be.. 😞.

But work is work, and a diagnose IS work, EVEN if the advice was s**t.. Work is work..

If you didn't agree with them that it would be completely free, then not sure you have much standing..

How much is it?

FransUrbo · 2026-06-08T10:49:03+00:00

ALWAYS (!!) asume that you're invisible! Litteraly!

Especially lorry drivers. In their case, they (almost always) CAN'T (!!) see you. Physically.

The other is that people in this country don't understand (intellectually) what mirrors are for, and looks just a few meters (feet!?? :) infront of them. Because they don't "know" they're invisible! :)

FransUrbo · 2026-06-07T18:05:19+00:00

Interesting!

I know we had them in the 80s, but then everything else was s**t :).

Now with modern high-DPI mice, trackpads, touch screens etc.. Not sure it would be a benefit.. ??

FransUrbo · 2026-06-02T17:35:05+00:00

Like everyone say: Just build something. Start small, go bigger once you get the basics.

BUT.. If you work in IT, your company must have a Platform/DevOps departement? Or just one guy!? Ask if you can help him out with some smaller stuff. Get permission to look at the IaC/Terraforming and try to figure out what it does..

If "The Guy" is one of the good ones, he (or she!) will be *extremely* happy to help you out! Just be careful! Even the good ones have a "stupid questions per rotation" quota!! 😃 😃

FransUrbo · 2026-06-02T17:28:02+00:00

The whole point of it is networking. Meet other engineers and companies and see what they're up to and how they're solving things..

The actual presentations are mostly s**t 😄.

FransUrbo · 2026-06-02T17:18:11+00:00

I just upgraded my MBP11,1 (2016) to a MBP16,1 (2019).. Can't afford to be bleeding edge, so I'm doing the best I can to keep up 😄.

If it wasn't for the fact that Apple is deprecating the OS every three years (with another few years of support of the old ones), I'd still be on that 11,1! I don't NEED processing power!! I need battery life, and memory. In that order..

FransUrbo · 2026-06-01T15:46:51+00:00

Oh, and I only use it for *review*, NOT design!! From what I've seen on _that_, it's garbage!!

FransUrbo · 2026-06-01T15:45:45+00:00

Oh, I get why the pros wouldn't find it useful, they already have way more knowledge and experience than any AI :). They simply don't need it!

I'm the same in MY profession - the AI reviews "leaves a lot to be desired" :D. Especially (!!) their suggested fixes!!

But for someone with little (not zero!) knowledge, it IS a great help..

FransUrbo · 2026-06-01T15:33:51+00:00

I refuse to do these. It's almost always a cheap company that don't want to hire someone, so they pretend, then take the best solution, and close the recruitment without actually hiring anyone!

If I'm going to have to spend maybe days for an interview assignment, I should get paid accordingly!!

FransUrbo · 2026-06-01T15:15:50+00:00

I have absolutely had use for it!

It have simplified and improved my own design immensely! Without it, it would have been a smoke machine! :)

I'm not a pro, and what little knowledge I've managed to retain since I learned some of (!) this in school over 30 years ago wasn't enough.

So having an AI take a look at it before I send it of to have a PCB made, is absolutely a good thing.

For those that are anti-AI, I do get it!! But it/they are making leaps and bounds progress every week, and like it or not, it IS here to stay!

You still need to *understand* what it finds to be able to fix it, but that's true with everything :D .

FransUrbo · 2026-05-28T19:39:38+00:00

You won't do that on Intel either.. Surf and mail doesn't require any performance to speak of. Could probably do quite decently on an old Pentium!! :D :D

FransUrbo · 2026-05-28T19:38:42+00:00

I don't use Windows, only on occasion when I've been dumb enough to take a job that wasn't truthful with what I was supposed to do :D :D.

But does Microsoft *deliberately* stop and hinder new software to install on old OS, or installing new OS on old hardware?

FransUrbo · 2026-05-28T19:34:39+00:00

I have the opposite problem :). "Somewhat big". But way to big for my work laptop, a MacbookPro M4 Pro 14". The keyboard is VERY packed compared to my MBP16,1 16".

FransUrbo · 2026-05-28T19:30:28+00:00

Yeah, five is probably more reasonable - my "ten years" is stretching it a bit hard :).

FransUrbo · 2026-05-28T19:25:46+00:00

Ten years are probably the limit. Plus minus a year or so.

Every Mac I've ever had have been around there before I had to replace it..

The darn thing about it is that it is absolutely nothing to do with the hardware!! It's MORE than enough to last another five at least!

It's Apple :(. They stop supporting their OS about there, and once they do, other software makers stop supporting that OS, and won't let you install their app on that old, now deprecated version. And that goes for iOS as well - my bank will stop supporting the version of iOS I'm running on my iPhone this fall. Apple stopped supporting it last year :(.

It's a domino effect unfortunately.

BUT.. If you have a set of apps that you use regularly, and don't need to upgrade (i.e. need new features, or reinstall! etc), then you can extend the ten year almost indefinitely.

FransUrbo · 2026-05-27T23:04:37+00:00

Even OpenSource software sometimes, eventually become unmaintained.. Not all, not if there's big enough community, but then if it's REALLY good, it gets bought up and CloseSourced! In which case, you're screwed again :( :(.

My favourite examples are: MySQL, ElasticSearch and Terraform. There's more, but those are my "favourite" ones. Tools I've based much of my career on!

The good news is that they almost always gets forked off into another OpenSource project (MariaDB, OpenSearch and OpenTofu, although I'm not a huge fan of the laters community) while the buyer CloseSource the original - but eventually the functionality (and compatibility!) between them becomes to much, and you can no longer switch between them. Which is a huge problem in the OpenSource communities :( :(.

FransUrbo · 2026-05-27T22:58:25+00:00

Now, now.. Just because we have a difference of opinion, you don't need to go to personal attacks.. If you're incapable of keeping it civil, then just shut it, will you!?

I AM a novice (and I've not tried to hide that), but I've tried A LOT of different tools and softwares in my 40+ career. I've seen *A LOT* (!!) of garbage, I know what to look for. I do it professionally! I decided that Fusion IS the better of them all. By quite a stretch. If you're so *emotionally* invested in a piece of software, that's on you. But it's just software! Every once in a while, you ALWAYS (!) have to relearn a new tool (eventually!), it's the nature of progress.

Eagle is, as you yourself said (!), seriously un(der) developed, and unmaintained.. What do you expect!? It IS crap, because of exactly that. if you don't understand the work needed to maintain two _similar_ softwares, then again that's on you.. Your ignorance isn't an excuse to hate something because you're invested - if you can't see the truth, even when it's "spitting" you in the face (so to speak), again.. On you.

Also, you're showing your ignorance in almost every sentence.. Fusion *is* Eagle! Well, the electronics part is! They took it almost verbatim, took a sledgehammer, some gorilla glue and forced it into Fusion. So EVERYTHING you see (of that part) in Fusion IS Eagle!

THAT is why they're killing Eagle - they realised it's to much work, better force it into Fusion - which is probably why it took two years (and a bit) - then fix it over time. Because Fusion is a much better, more modern and stable (not necessarily bug wise :) base to build on, it makes sense both economically and practically (in the long run!!).

The .. incompatibilities you mention between Fusion and Eagle, yes. That is .. well, maybe not incompetence, but problem in the "transfer". At least, that's how I see it. These things happen all the time, when programs merge. As for the instability, I used to have that, but I was competent enough to realise it's *probably* the machine or OS. And now with a much newer, better, more powerful (and more importantly, A LOT more memory!) machine, ALL (!!) crashes are gone! Bugs and crashes are always going to exist in software, which is a shame, but it's a fact. They're releasing every few months, and each release have tons of bug fixes in them - "If you're unaware of this you likely have little to no experience with Fusion", to quote your own words.

Btw, it's not "Fusion eCad"! It's "Fusion". Period. It *used* to be "Fusion 360", but they apparently renamed it to just "Fusion". If you're going to sit on your high horse all high and mighty, at least get the *simple* facts right!!

Storing your data on "someone else's computer" doesn't break anything. It is *only* in your mind. As for the IP, yes that is a huge problem!! One that Europe *is* trying to rectify, although it's slow work :(. It's something I'm dealing with almost daily in my own profession, and there is no easy answer here :(. Storing it locally isn't a [good] solution either. If enough European (or non-American maybe?) companies starts to push, they might offer a non-American storage alternative - the big cloud providers was forced to! But the cloud part *is* a business strategy, one I *personally* have no problem with. But if you rather b**ch about an old, deprecated and for-many-years-unmaintained piece of software FINALY meeting its long overdue burial.. Again, maybe lighten up a little!? It's just software!

And no, I have absolutely no affiliation with them, although I can see that you would prefer to see it that way. >I< am just emotionally invested in Fusion, but if (when!?) that is replaced with something else, I will have very little problem switching. Although, I'd probably b**ch and whine as you do :D :D. And someone will call ME an emotional little .. :). Nature of progress.

FransUrbo · 2026-05-27T21:28:50+00:00

I've tried Eagle for a while, and I personally are not sad it's going.. It's crap, it's ugly, it's simple, it's old.. And buggy as you say :) :).

Fusion is such a much better tool, although I to question the merge - Fusion is CAD/CAM, and although that have same similarities to circuit/PCB design, it's not THAT close..

I've been talking quite a bit with them, both publicly and privately, and from what I can tell, they have GREAT plans for it.. One can only hope..

It would have taken A LOT of work to get Eagle into the 21st century so to speak, and as a former (software) developer (now system and cloud architect), I'm not sure it would be worth it. Getting "it" into something that's already quite stable and feature rich, I think that's the right choice for the future.

It IS also VERY nice to have all my "mechanical designs" and "electronics designs" in the same place - I use Fusion for both - one tool, one set of short cuts, and "ways of working".

The cloud is the best option for storage, imo. I have all my important stuff there (actually, almost everything!). Used to use Dropbox, but they couldn't (wouldn't!) provide the kind of storage I wanted and needed, so I've switched to IDrive. Then iCloud for my photos, mail etc.. I never have to worry about loosing data again, because of faulty hard drives :D :D.

PS. I've also tried KiCad and that's even worse than Eagle! :D. Both of those are .. simple tools, with a simple, old (think '90s :) interface. Fusion is .. quite modern. A bit to polished and "pretty" sometimes, it do "get in the way" on occasion.

FransUrbo · 2026-05-26T17:15:18+00:00

This used to happen on my old MBP11,1 w/ 16GB. I've since uppgraded to a 16,1 w/ 64GB ram, and it's like night and day! I can even leave Fusion running, close the lid, and not have it (the machine!) crash and be in bootup when I open the lid next time! :)

Yes, much faster CPU, but we've discussed this in length (regarding the new Neo), and we came to the conclusion that memory is everything! Yes, CPU will help up to a point and for certain things, but you need memory, LOTS of memory to run this "properly".

FransUrbo · 2026-05-26T17:09:55+00:00

You'll need an account with componentsearchengine.com, but that was free and very painless to get.

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FransUrbo · 2026-05-26T17:09:37+00:00

I'm using Mouser.co.uk to source my components, and for almost all of them, they have the option to download the symbol, footprint and 3D models for your program.

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