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I agree with the people suggesting Onshape.
But if you like programming, OpenSCAD can be really interesting.
+1 for openscad. I switched over from Fusion 360 back when autodesk changed the personal use license in 2020.
It takes a bit to get used to it, but once you've made a few parts you begin to see how powerful it can really be.
Its also super lightweight, so you can run it on most systems without any issues. I've ran in on a chromebook before.
The only thing I miss about fusion 360 is an easy way to add fillets to parts, that can be tricky in openscad. I use chamfers for the most part though, so I don't miss it much.
There's an OpenSCAD add-on lib called BOSL that offers primitives with built-in fillet options (plus a wide array of other stuff, like premodeled metric bolts). Admittedly it spends a lot of time reinventing the wheel, but I've found it useful from time to time.
There's also CadQuery, which I find more intuitive to use than openscand: https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
Onshape offers featurescript for scripting out models.