Another vote for the personal (free) version of Fusion 360. Just get it and learn it first. It's the standard for a reason.
Once you are comfortable with it you will be able to make anything you want, and you'll have learned enough about how CAD programs work to make a properly informed decision on whether you want to run a different CAD software in the future or not. Pretty much every other program is going to be harder to learn and get your first few projects run, not have 1/10th of the the extensive post processor support Fusion has, or the endless quantity of Youtube lesson videos on every topic under the sun.
There's really no particular problem with the free version being limited to 1 tool per post in a hobby shop environment for a mill or lathe. You just run a program for each tool. And if you REALLY want to get around that, there's ways.
mill & lathe 2 axis and 3 axis, sheet metal, additive 3d printing... all those are available in the base version. 4 axis positional (index then mill) is also available. Full 4 axis simultaneous and 5 axis is NOT available without an expensive extension.
Once you are comfortable with it you will be able to make anything you want, and you'll have learned enough about how CAD programs work to make a properly informed decision on whether you want to run a different CAD software in the future or not. Pretty much every other program is going to be harder to learn and get your first few projects run, not have 1/10th of the the extensive post processor support Fusion has, or the endless quantity of Youtube lesson videos on every topic under the sun.
There's really no particular problem with the free version being limited to 1 tool per post in a hobby shop environment for a mill or lathe. You just run a program for each tool. And if you REALLY want to get around that, there's ways.
mill & lathe 2 axis and 3 axis, sheet metal, additive 3d printing... all those are available in the base version. 4 axis positional (index then mill) is also available. Full 4 axis simultaneous and 5 axis is NOT available without an expensive extension.