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Quite frankly, you could have just said, "I prefer Fusion over Onshape, it just doesn’t work for me. How do I reach out to provide my feedback?"

I was trying to get a sense of where you're coming from, whether you're a student or a teacher. It sounds like you’ve spent a good amount of time with Fusion and built up your workflow there, possibly learning through YouTube and other online resources. That might also explain why cost is such a concern. If you're using this in an educational context, it could be worth seeing if your school can access Onshape’s education plan, which might benefit more than just you.

I did want to respond to a few points. For example, the idea that Onshape only works for large assemblies isn’t quite accurate. Onshape’s part studio and assembly system scales well and works just as effectively with small assemblies. Its structure is designed for consistency, whether you're building two parts or two thousand.

Onshape is still evolving and gaining features, but like others have said, taking the time to explore it more thoroughly can help unlock its full potential.

In a professional setting, you don’t always get to choose your software. You’re often expected to adapt to whatever tools the company uses. From experience hiring students, you can usually tell the difference in modelling habits between those trained in Fusion and those trained in more traditional CAD tools like SolidWorks, Inventor, or Onshape. Fusion users sometimes bring in modelling practices influenced by more casual or informal learning resources, where only they will work on the files, while the other platforms like Onshape, Solidworks or Inventor tend to have more structured training materials.

I use both Fusion and Onshape regularly. The only major edge I’d give Fusion is its integrated CAM. But it’s not without issues, needing to manually enable “capture design history,” the complexity of configuration tools, and frustrations around drawing creation. The worst for me was when an update wiped out a chunk of my data, which took a long time to recover.

Would you be open to sharing a few of the models where you ran into trouble? Seeing how they were built might help forum members offer some useful alternatives or techniques. Based on what you’ve said, the issues may have more to do with the approach than platform limitations.