Autodesk Eagle Fusion 360
Qiana Thieklin
Effective June 7, 2026 , Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE. New and active Fusion 360 and Fusion 360 with EAGLE Premium subscriptions will continue to give you access to Fusion 360 electronics as well as EAGLE Premium functionality until EAGLE is no longer supported in June 2026.
Autodesk bought eagle in 2017, and in 2021 they offered 3.9 Billion to take over altium =autodesk+altium+bid&ia=web Anyone with more then two braincells would have some inkling of what they thought of that Eagle thing they had bought a few years earlier. It either did not meet expectations, or they only bought it for access to the eagle users in the first place.
This is exactly why I refuse to use any sort of subscription software. Not only do you have to keep paying someone else to have access to your own work product, but if they drop support you lose it forever.
Until Autodesk realizes there are people that need to work with locally saved files in Fusion360, we will be making a plan to transition our team to another platform ASAP. This is a complaint so many of us have voiced for years and Autodesk keeps dismissing it as essentially " you don't really have an issue, nobody needs local files".
Yup, this is pretty unfortunate. It doesn't seem like Fusion electronics will ever have feature parity either. The cloud storage and terrible file handling really puts me off and I don't see myself ever using it.
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It's nice to hear from you again, it's been a while since we spoke. Aside from the cloud storage issue, could you elaborate on what features you feel are still missing. We've worked very hard to fill in all the gaps and at this point Fusion can do everything EAGLE did and more as far as I can tell, however if we missed something we want to know. Giving 3 years notice gives us time to address any concerns you and the rest of the users on the thread may have.
2: Speed. Fusion360 might work fine if you're located right next to the data centre with a high bandwidth connection. I've never seen 360 work at a reasonable speed here in the UK. The electronics part of 360 is frustratingly slow. I don't know about the performance of the rest of 360 as I'm an electronics engineer & I don't need 3D rendering.
3: The 3rd problem, which Autodesk really don't seem to care about it that Fusion360 just isn't supported on Linux. The website says Linux is supported for Eagle, but that's only on a really old version.
this is actually absurd. for years now i pay for fusion just to use eagle premium. what a joke. what is the reason for cutting off access to eagle when its clear for many years there wont be more updates, but why not let people still use it if they are willing to pay?
i'd like to be able to use it since i push/pull to fusion 360 and use fusion 360 for cad/cam so using the same one would be great, but its just too cumbersome/slow to use. even swapping between board and schematic is laggy, load times are so much worse too
especially being so used to eagle, i use text commands a lot and the inconsistency in the handling of it in fusion vs eagle is really annoying. i do try to use eagle within fusion but i always end up dropping back to standalone because of the inconsistencies which i guess just sucks for me since i'm used to eagle and i should just relearn, but if i have to do that i might switch elsewhere because of the ui inconsistencies and lag, and lack of customisation.
the other big issue for me is data reliability , odd things just happen in fusion where things like search stop working and versions just seem to break and need to be reconnected, or can't be moved, or will go back to the wrong team. and autodesk doesn't have answers for it, which is even more worrying.
i can use source control with eagle that is tried and true, and it works properly, and i can store things that are related to the project, ulps/lbrs/pdfs/source code/firmware etc. fusion just doesn't have that level of integration.
Hi Jorge, yeah it's been a while. I kinda gave up hear since Autodesk had just bulldozed over us users and essentially stopped listening to any feedback or direction we wanted.
Off the top of my head here are some issues.
- No MENU support.
- ASSIGN does not work to map or modify shortcuts.
- Projects and file handling are broken. I use ULPs and shortcuts to export a lot of manufacturing documentation into nested folder architectures which Fusion cannot support in the least bit with the cloud management.
-In standard Eagle I use the control panel extensively for project and file management. No good project management features in Fusion, just a folders full of files.
- Cannot use github to sync and track my projects and libraries.
- VERY poor performance doing just about anything. 2-5 fps is just no going to cut it. Panning, zooming, routing, etc all worse than standalone Eagle. Fusion also has a LOT of graphical bugs that force me to restart to clear (stuck QT overlays like browser, black patches, blank windows, etc)
- Cannot use separate windows for schematic/board. So there's no way to side by side a design.
- BRD -> Import -> EAGLE Drawing... is not supported. This is a BIG one for me as I use this extensively to bring in updates, propagate changes, copy designs. Essentially I use it like design blocks, but it's a lot easier than design blocks to manage and is more useful to me.
- No way to easily edit files directly to make changes/fix issues. I tend to edit the XML in some libraries since it's easier and faster than using the built in library tools. Adding variants to components such as those in my RCL always happen directly in the XML. There's no easy way to replicate this in Fusion, everything lives in an Opaque cloud and we have few ways to correct any errors.
There's probably a lot more I'm missing tool, but these are some broad strokes. Just about every big update to Fusion Electronics I'll try importing a design and it really doesn't go well.
This is not personal, so please ignore my frustration on personal level but please forward it to your stupid management. Please tell them that their stupid decision causes me (and many others) a huge amount of extra work and frustration, worth much more than over 20 years of Eagle licenses I have paid so far.
Performance seems a bit better too in this latest version (I was on old versions since I stayed on MacOS Catalina, but since updated). But opening files is super slow, switching files is slow, generally Fusion 360 by itself is a pretty slow, sluggish program (on top notch hardware), so the changes of Electronics running faster than standard Fusion modeling are very slim. It'll only be as fast as the host program.
There are some other small things I see missing now that I'm looking.
- HELP does not pull up the documentation anymore.
- GRID supports alias names, but there's no way to see or activate them without using the command line.
- The VARIANT selection box in schematic is missing. How are you supposed to change/see what variant is selected?
- Directory settings no longer support multiple locations. Previously you could specify additional directories with a :
I have many nested subfolders categorizing ULPs and Scripts. Ideally there would be a checkmark to include children of the folder location.
- Looking again at the project view, there is no way to add any kind of useful project information like the standalone .epf format. Control panel parity is needed to add some sort of project management. Files in a bucket does not work for us.
- Having the control panel constantly disabled also slows the workflow. No longer can you use the route shortcut, then type a number for the width. Fusion's UI is all focused on mouse cursor, which I try to use the least. Control panel shortcuts with a macro pad and I'm lightning fast compared to dragging a mouse cursor all over the dialogs.
The UI is super bloated and takes up way too much valuable space. Dialogs and windows all over the place instead of building all the information into a dense location (like Eagle's toolbars). That's a big gripe with Fusion overall. Large icons/margins/padding and no way to adjust.
Quick question before I decide to cancel my sub (July) - does anyone have practical experience of F360 Electronics - does this force a migration from local libraries into managed libraries? (it's been a while since I've used F360 and this could be the red-line for me). What's the subscription of F360 Electronics? it looks like 5x the annual cost for my current private license with a GBP 100/year renewal this year.
Thanks for the feedback, it's true the desktop version of Fusion 360 does not run on Linux (though there is a stripped down version for educational institutions that runs in a browser so that kind of helps). We are working towards device independence(not just running on Linux, but on tablets, phones, etc.) but that is still some time away.
Fusion can actually be disconnected from the cloud and cache everything locally for a max of 2 weeks I believe. The idea is that you can continue working while on a flight or if your internet drops out. It has to be able to connect to the internet at least once every 2 weeks. It can not be permanently air gapped.
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