And through no fault of my own, I would have found my hard work being held hostage, with the ransom being the cost of a new computer. It really bugs me, that if I had paid for the older version back when I first got it under the student license, that I would have suddenly lost all my work, and been unable to access it without a new computer, perhaps as a deadline for a project approached, if I had upgraded or downloaded the newer version when the student license expired. I want to throw my computer out the window, right now.

I had an entire start-up team about to pay for subscriptions for Fusion 360. I wish someone would have mentioned I couldn't use this without a new computer, before I put all the time into learning it. I literally spent years training myself, watching tutorials and learned Fusion 360 on the older download I had from the student version, and now I can't even use this product if I paid for the full version. Hardly anyone can afford to run out and buy a new computer just to run a CAD program, when there are several others for free that actually work without requiring the latest, greatest, gear. And, I just downloaded the hobbyist license and can't even use Fusion 360 now. I wish I could run F360 on my MacBook Pro, but again the OS is 'too old' for the current versions. I second needing an archive of F360 versions that may not have all the newest features, but work for people with older hardware that still works well. I have the new 4.0 version downloaded, so I may end up opening up my model in that just to get around some of the headaches like not being able to see dimension values (insert eye-roll here). This computer is the newest OS my iMac will ever get, because to replace this computer with a comparable i7 with 32GB of soldered in RAM is $2900!! My older version of F360 suits all my hobby modeling needs.

My Computer: Late 2012 iMac 27' with 3.4 GHz i7 upgraded to 32GB of RAM (because DDR3 FTW) Either way I'm pretty surprised that autodesk would stop supporting an OS thats only 2 years old. Is there any way to download a legacy version of Fusion360 that is still compatible with 10.13.6. It doesn't make sense for me to update my OS as I'm on a 2015 Macbook Pro and updating will continue to deprecate my computer, and take up additional space which I don't want to sacrifice from application memory and 10.13.6 was only released 2 years ago in 2019. When I try to download Fusion360 it tells me that I need to update my operating system to download the application. A university student and using a Mac and my current operating system is High Sierra Version: 10.13.6.

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