Thanks for the replies guys. Setting up Fusion on my older laptop was painfully slow running off a router so I missed the part about registering for free usage.
This is my first experience with cloud software. If I wanted to depend on running it off the laptop there would be a new one in my future.
Even on the desktop with direct connection to the cable modem it doesn't seem to be as fast as with resident software. Fusion is fairly intuitive after having experience using other 3D systems. The one feature I was hoping for is not there though, that's spiral finishing with constant step over.
The scallop function does it almost. I haven't actually run any generated code yet although back plotted in another system it looks okay. I have yet to get the smoothing function to work where circular cross sections are supposed to generate as arcs rather than short line segments, but that may just be my inexperience. All in all, Fusion looks okay considering the price if you qualify for free usage, provided you have a fast internet connection. Thanks for the replies guys. Setting up Fusion on my older laptop was painfully slow running off a router so I missed the part about registering for free usage.