I am not sure I am ready to learn yet another cad package at the moment, but I did watch the video. My main takeaway was that you are really going to want to work on that simplified option. 
Being able to easily pick a face and just export an orthographic as an SVG would be a useful function!
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I go back and forth as Sketchup is faster for a quick bookcase or such but if you want to do several bookcases of different sizes then Fusion is the way to go as the parametric capability is fantastic. Set up your model right and you can change your material thickness, depth, width, and height at will and let Fusion 360 do all the work redoing it.
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wow so I am giving this a try and clicking all the tabs for my interlocking walls is a MASSIVE pain I keep miss clicking or clicking on the wrong plane. it would not let me click the primary body so Iâm having to click 100âs of edges
Sweetness! Although the post would prolly technically work in SolidWorks/HSMWorks, I had to edit it very slightly to make it actually work with my version of HSMWorks (I didnât feel like researching long enough to see if there was some way to enable waterjet support).
First I had to change line 19, which saysâŚ
capabilities = CAPABILITY_JET;to
capabilities = CAPABILITY_MILLING;Then I commented-out (added two forward slashes ( â//â ) to the beginning of) line 145âŚ
error(localize("The CNC does not support the required tool."));so that it looked like thisâŚ
// error(localize("The CNC does not support the required tool."));For the toolpaths I just did a 2D Contour and created a tool with a diameter of 0.2mm. The âLeft/Rightâ option worked, which is nice! That option wouldnât work for me in Fusion 360.
(Oops, I think I should set the diameter to something much lower, something like 0.05mm.)
(Oops2, a Trace toolpath is better, as it also has a âCenterâ option. All three choices seem to work.)
By the way, my Fusion 360 post processing dialog looks different than the one shown in the video. I donât have a âSourceâ option like in the video. In its place I have âConfiguration Folderâ, which seems to only want a path to a local folder. (I am also using Windows 10.)
I think this post processor is going to save me, like, 5 steps to cutting things with my current laser cutter! 
It looks like the post sets the line thickness as well. Modifying that from the current setting (which seems to be 0.1mm) to 0.01mm will save me a little more time and allow me to use Illustrator even less. Bonus!
Hopefully making a filled shape for engraving will go as easilyâŚ
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Looks like the interface has changed quite a bit in the past 5 months. Maybe an updated video. I was able to find and upload the Glowforge Post to the A360 cloud drive, but once I did that, I couldnât find how to get to it through the Post Process procedure. I finally opened it locally, but then it failed on the post process and didnât produce the SVG file.
However, this looks like and awesome process that will make exporting 3D models into GF ready SVGs much easier.
Let me take a look at it to see whatâs changed and make a new video.
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