One of the first things we do in our workflow is take the entire aircraft with all of its subsystems (literally everything that makes the aircraft run) and make 'shell' assemblies that only contain one subsystem. I only mentioned Fusion because some of my work contacts recommended it, but I'm investigating any and all alternatives.ġk - 2k parts is with all of the irrelevant stuff suppressed. The main issue is that SW is slowing down our work process because it does not handle extremely large assemblies (1-2k parts), so it takes a very long time to produce individual drawings where those assemblies are shown. Fusion does not handle this type of workflow nearly as well though it 'sorta' supports it In Inventor the use of inheritance and skeletal modeling is extremely powerful for parts of an assembly.

Performance can start to degrade with tens of parts and especially so if you are making assemblies where subassemblies are semi complex. Solvable by extreme discipline while working, but a trap for sure The features or xhanges you make might actually be to a different part, but their histories become intermingled and it is very tough to tease them apart. Fusion lets you pick an object and model away.

I would encourage you to get a free trial of Fusion and play with it, but here are some of the things that I felt were much better in Inventor than Fusion (I consider Inventor and SW to be very similar so hopefully these translate): Having worked in an environment where we created 3D designs that were primarily CNC machined (high performance automotive parts) and having used Solidworks a little, Inventor a lot, and Fusion 'some,' I would say the answer to your question is probably not.

Fusion 360 vs solidworks