Shannon McGarry
FusionNews highlights the key things happening in the Fusion 360 Community. New posts every Friday.
From the Fusion 360 Team
Generative design is now available with your subscription of Fusion 360 Ultimate. Delivering the “Aided” part of Computer Aided Design.
Quick Tip: Mesh to Solid Reboot
Want to turn meshes into solids? Learn some strategies you can employ the next time you need to do this!
What is Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)?
Learn about what Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) is and how it uses toolpaths, G-code, and CNC machines to turn 3D CAD models into physical products.
Events
Online: Sketching & Part Modeling – Join us on 5/2 at 2 PM EDT to learn more about sketch, modeling, and modify commands, constraints, tips & tricks and more. Register here.
Online: CAM Project Day – Join us on a journey programming and making a part using various features of Fusion 360 on 5/3 at 1 PM EDT. Register here.
Online: Assemblies – Join us on 5/4 at 2 PM EDT to learn more about components and bodies, joints, motion studies and more. Register here.
Gallery Spotlights
Red Weapon Monstro 8K VV by Vincent Fillion
Pelton Turbine by Najeeb Ghrayeb
Your Ideas from the Fusion 360 IdeaStation
We take your suggestions very seriously as they help to shape Fusion 360. Please share your ideas and vote for new features / enhancements you would like to see. Here are a few submissions from the week:
- Add option to make hole the proper drill size for a given tap – Since you’ve just added threading options to the create hole operation, it might be good to add support for drilling holes of the right size for tapping a specified thread later.
- Make it easier to fix projection source lost errors – It would be nice to be able to have a “re-associate” action (similar to drawings) which allows you to pick a new source.
- Make it possible to use a user parameter with value 0 in sketch dimensions – If I create a parameter with value of 0 and use it in a sketch dimension, Fusion 360 doesn’t allow me. If set the value to non-zero (e.g. 0.1) and use it and then go back and change to 0, this is OK. So why not make it possible to do this without these extra steps?
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
