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While I'm disappointed in the changes, I both disagree with the characterization of "almost useless" and with the editorializing that's inherent in choosing that title for this submission to HN.

The changes are painful (especially the lack of STEP export), but that stops well short of "almost useless" IMO.

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It really is almost useless, there's not really a way to get useful 3D models out anymore.

I've used it many dozens of times for 3D printed parts which I expect will continue to work just fine to export STL files.

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more hobbyist users making STL files for 3D printed parts than all other hobbyist use cases combined. (If you add 2-and-a-half-D CAD/CAM [also still pretty well supported], I'd wager a large sum that it's still useful for more than half the current hobbyist user base.)

I can go to "Tools -> Make" and the selected body will be sent to my makerboat desktop app. This means there is a reasonable easy way to add apps to F360 (since I doubt MakerBoat is so big for Autodesk to make a special thing for them), which means you can export in whatever way you want.

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