Shannon McGarry
Elevate your design and manufacturing processes with Autodesk Fusion
FusionNews highlights the key things that happened over the past week in the Fusion 360 Community. New posts every Friday.
From the Fusion 360 Team
Quick Tip – Discover the Undiscovered
Want to switch active documents or show/hide the data panel? There are keyboard shortcuts to do both of these. Watch this QUICK TIP to see what those are.
Ultimate Beginner Tutorial – Piston Rod Assembly
New to Fusion 360? Learn how to create three different parts and assemble them in one design within Fusion 360. Start to finish, perfect for beginners!
Basic best practices for 3D printing with Fusion 360
Gain insight from Fusion 360 Evangelist, Paul Sohi on 3D printing, as he designs a dock for his external hard drive.
Events
Online: User Interface & Data Management – Join us on July 10th at 3:30 PM EDT to take an in-depth look at the user interface and learn how to best manage your data in Fusion 360. Register here.
Online: Sketching & Part Modeling – Learn about sketching and modeling commands, constraints, tip and tricks and more on June 12th at 2 PM EDT. Register here.
Online: Assemblies – Get up and running with assemblies, joints, bodies and components, motion studies and more on July 14th at 2 PM EDT. Register here.
Online: 2D CAM – Explore the CAM workspace in Fusion 360 and focus specifically on 2D machining operations and best practices on July 13th at 1 PM EDT. Register here.
Gallery Spotlights
Simple dc motor by Joshua Eldridge
Feed water pump controller by Noah Griffith
Your Ideas from the Fusion 360 IdeaStation
We take your suggestions very seriously as they help to shape Fusion 360, so please share your ideas and vote for new features / enhancements you would like to see. Here are a few popular submissions from the week:
- Normal View Button to view cube – I would like to have the normal view button at the view cube and it should have both functionality (as outside a sketch and as inside a sketch, according to what you are doing at this moment.
- Capture visibility in Named View – I think it would be great if we could capture visibility of parts/components in a named view. However, I would like to be able to turn parts/components off, and when I capture the Named View (Engine, for example), it captures not only the camera info, but also the parts that are displayed.
- Export files to BIM system – In the current configuration of Fusion 360 we can export only files in sat, iges, step or f3d. In Inventor Professional already has the Export Bim implemented, helping a lot in building elements like mobile and rfa families. With the infinite possibilities of organic modeling, I believe that this would benefit the entire BIM community.
Have a story to share? We would love to hear more about you and how you’re using Fusion 360! Shoot me an email at Shannon.McGarry@autodesk.com