The article is beyond wordy and hard to decipher but here my TL:DR. And please correct me if I miss understood something.
Currently Fusion 360 projects are stored in the cloud with “single storage”. The default save location in Fusion 360.
Autodesk is moving to “Fusion Hub” since they boast it’s better at collaboration and file management.
If you receive the email notifying you of Fusion Hub. You have approximately 30 days" to upgrade to Fusion Hub. Auto desk will allow you to “skip the process once”, but will force you to upgrade after 24 hours.
Once you start the process of upgrading the “Single Storage” will be remove immediately or available for 30 days for collaborative files. So if you are collaborating with others, ensure to tell them or they will loose access to the project.
Shared links to existing projects will be broken after the upgrade.
My favorite FAQ:
What if I don’t want to upgrade my data to Fusion Hub?
Since we are supporting only one location to store data, you will be required to upgrade to Fusion Hub.
I’ve never seen a statement with so many words that said so little. What is Fusion Hub?
Well, the AI detector in Firefox says the article may be AI generated, so that explains why it’s such a mess.
Yeah the one in my brain was going off as well.
Cloud storage for Autodesk Fusion 360 from the looks of it. TBH it’s hard to even google.
But they already use cloud storage? What’s different about this? Why wouldn’t you want to use it?
From the sounds of it, better collaboration and sharing of projects.
That sounds awful
PDM is the current buzzword for lower-end CAD. Alibre just added it. OnShape tries to embody it. Solidworks hobbyist options only continue to exist in order to market it. Even the Ondsel startup that hired some FreeCAD devs built their (failed) business model around bolting PDM on.
This looks like it’s taking a more traditional “cloud storage” model and replacing it with something more PDM-like so they can sell to low-end corporate users, and the hobbyists just get rolled in because ain’t nobody maintaining something just for the freeloaders, who can be forced to get used to it anyway and might push for it if they ever get work in the field, simply because they know it.
My guess is it’s not inherently worse than what it’s replacing, but it’s likely complicated and kinda clunky for a random person designing gears and project enclosures.
Lol this is probably exactly accurate.