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Fusion 360
Raised as a usability problem by 40 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 43 threads.
People raised many different problems with Fusion 360, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Bulky, crashy and slow to use for CAM work2026-09-14
- Two splash screens and a 32-second wait before the app is usable2026-03-03
- Clunky app that tries to do too many things2026-01-20
- Spends most time hunting for buttons; UI layouts differ from tutorials2025-11-24
- Opening a medium assembly is laggy and the CAM module crashes often under Linux2025-10-16
- User finds the interface hard to understand2025-10-03
- Every mouse click feels slow, as if waiting on a web request2025-09-23
- Functional design tutorials are made by non-engineers, so learning is longer and more frustrating2025-07-16
- Windows float above others and model tree stops responding to clicks after updates2025-04-24
- Intrusive dark-pattern onboarding forces account creation before use2025-01-28
- Account setup is buggy and the installer and registration process is very hard to get through2025-01-02
- The interface is very slow to respond on macOS2024-09-23
- STL export randomly fails with a translation service error that goes away moments later2024-09-11
- Commenter has never been able to get the hang of mouse controls2024-06-03
- Its user experience is pretty terrible compared to commercial CAD packages2024-05-22
- Too few keyboard shortcuts, forcing constant mouse use to select operations2023-09-10
- Takes minutes just to start, and is slow and bloated on Windows2023-06-14
- Fusion 360 constraint-based solving did not work properly and it felt slow2023-06-14
- Parametric support is tied to order of operations, making it almost unusable2023-02-20
- Free version forces reloading with a new account every 30 days2023-02-19
- Installed itself into non-standard folders, so the user couldn't find the program to run it again2022-08-14
- Saving a simple object as STL takes about two minutes via the default menu2022-08-13
- Saving a simple object as STL takes about two minutes via the default menu, while export is instant2022-08-13
- UI feels laggy and unresponsive compared to SolidWorks2022-08-11
- Can't easily export work; product only works through unofficial Wine setup on Linux2022-06-16
- Mouse button drags do not match expected rotate, pan and zoom behavior, tripping user up2022-06-10
- Slow, with underlying compute often blocking the UI2022-04-12
- Feels terrible to use and slow to load2022-04-12
- Ignores macOS text conventions, so it feels clunky and annoying to use2022-04-01
- Clunky and annoying to use on Windows2022-04-01
- Slow graphics and clunky UI make the software hard to work with2022-03-09
- Precise positioning of holes requires fiddling with mouse, camera angles, and modes2022-01-05
- Version control is terrible and painful to use on professional projects2021-11-14
- Cloud service forces user to repeatedly delete log files to open the program2021-10-21
- Too convoluted for the commenter to use comfortably2021-06-09
- Clunky, cloud-dependent ribbon interface that is constantly in the way and slow2021-06-07
- Menu items move every release so users must search every menu to find commands2021-02-26
- Login is refused with no explanation when the Windows clock is wrong after reboot2020-09-25
- Dismiss button reads 'I don't want to save 40%', a dark pattern pushing users toward paying2020-09-17
- OBJ export relies on a cloud process that repeatedly fails2020-09-16
- Menu items keep moving between versions, so tutorials become useless for finding commands2020-09-13
- Crashes often and is slow to respond2020-06-11
- Entire interface is clunky and hard to use for new users2020-06-06
- Command search doesn't show where commands are in the menus, so finding them stays inefficient2020-06-01
- Interface is poorly designed, slow and clunky to work with2019-01-02
- Slow performance even on small projects on a top-end iMac2019-01-02
- Sketch selection and moving objects are hard; edits break parametric references downstream2019-01-02
- Finds the product annoying to work with, since it runs as a web app2019-01-01
- Described as practically unusable in practice despite good concept2016-02-05
- Dragging the mouse to the top in full-screen shows the menubar with no way to disable it2009-05-18