Laptop for CAD

VEX V5 General Discussion
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I want to start using CAD for next year’s game, but I don’t own a laptop. Does anybody have recommendations for under $500 that can run Fusion360?

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I don’t know about Fusion 360, but I do all my cad through Onshape on a 70 dollar Chromebook. It runs horribly but I usually get some good results after bulling through it.

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Here is Autodesk’s recommendations for laptop specs for fusion 360:
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-Autodesk-Fusion-360.html

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I would say that if you don’t need anything that is very resource intensive, you don’t need a good computer, so most computers would probably work for fusion 360.

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how do you get all of the files in onshape

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Theres a ton of youtube tutorials. Just google something along the lines of “vex onshape tutorial” and most of them will show you how.

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There’s a free app for OnShape student accounts (maybe for paid accounts, but I haven’t checked). It’s called “Vex Library.” It has 90% of all components. The one big double-edged sword is that the parts (with some exceptions) are almost 1:1, reducing topology errors, but they are horribly laggy on a full robot without some fancy assembly nesting.

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