Fusion Team is the cloud collaboration platform powering the Fusion 360 data management capabilities. The goal is to make Fusion Team available to everyone, with easy tools to migrate your data from personal to Fusion Team.

It’s a no-brainer for everyone to jump on Fusion Team because it allows for company ownership of data vs. individual and has additional security like Roles and Project types, as well as robust admin tools. You’ll be able to collaborate with a machinist that is next door or in on the other side of the world with the right amount of control, security, and communication.

Since many of you do not have Fusion Team, we’ve been working on providing you a transition experience that is smooth and painless, but to do it right, it’s taking some time, and this is something we don’t want to rush. Stay tuned for an announcement of this roll out in the next couple of months on the Fusion Blog.

Fusion Team also supports two additional bits of cool tech, the first one being Desktop Connector. This experience allows you to install a utility that shows your Fusion Teams and Projects directly into Windows Explorer / Mac Finder, making it very easy to use Fusion Team with any application using traditional OS open/save workflows.

Where this functionality really shines is with AnyCAD.

This is where the fun begins. Imagine that you are working with Fusion 360 for machining, while your design engineer is still using something like Inventor, SolidWorks or Siemens NX. With Fusion Team + Desktop Connector + AnyCAD, they can save their data directly, and you can open it right in Fusion 360, without format translation and maintaining associativity!

So even if the design changes after you have set up your manufacturing strategy, it is now a one-click update with AnyCAD to consume those changes and recalculate tool-paths.

This is very powerful. Derive workflows will allow you to derive parts of an assembly for specific purposes, with better control and greater flexibility. What’s powerful about this whole thing is that you can edit the derived parts and maintain associativity to its original source (across projects) at the same time.

Today, if you wanted to reuse a part from one project and put it in a design that exists in a different project, you’d have to save that component out as a separate file, where associativity is no longer maintained with the source component. If you share a part to your machinist and your machinist needs to design soft jaws and fixtures for it, changes you make to the part will make your machinist’s job even more difficult.

Derive enables you to “derive” that part and share it with your machinist, where they can build soft jaws and fixtures around it in their own project, while still maintaining associativity with your original part in your project. Once you make a change to the part, your machinist can update their derived part and take those changes, without needing to manually update all of their work. You will still control the source, while your machinist can control the derived part and additional edits made to it.

There is so much more to this we want to talk about, and we’ll do it in a separate deeper dive post coming soon.

A highly requested functionality has become reality this past summer. Our next step is to give you an easy way to see all of your keyboard shortcuts in a single view, as well as shortcut keys for visual styles, and Viewcube views.

*In development sneak peek* | Changing visual styles with hotkeys…testing currently in progress. Yup, soon you’ll no longer need an add-in for this.

We have received lots of valuable feedback (such as real-estate concerns, API support, colors, the order of tools, etc), and are taking them all into consideration. We are now working to improve the toolbar and are addressing these exact concerns, along with better ways of showing what mode you are in, without getting in your way of designing. There is great progress being made, and as soon as we have something to share, we’ll reach out to you and tell you all about it on the blog and forums.

We agree – opening a design in Fusion 360 hasn’t been the most discoverable. That’s why we’re working a better path to open designs, so you don’t need to upload it first if you still want to see what it is. We’re testing the implementation right now, so stay tuned to the blog on when this is dropping.

Along with all the improvements we’re making to the toolbar, we also have to think about how the UI can scale as more functionality becomes available. That’s why we’re also working on updating the platform. This means better stability, better performance, as well as a slew of fixes that come with the newer version.

This long-requested functionality (IdeaStation: 327 votes) was completed in the April update. Since then, we’ve ironed out a few kinks and are improving the experience.

Control a surface edge’s curvature continuity by making parts of the edge sharp and parts of it smooth with G0 to G2.

Ever been confused why we have two different fillet commands? Ever been upset that you can choose faces and features as the inputs in Rule Fillet, but not in regular Fillet? Rest assured, we’re completing a project to take care of both of those and make fillets more robust than ever.

Now that we improved the Hole command to include threads, we’re excited to be adding tapered threads to the command soon as well. The 191 comments on this IdeaStation post are indicative of the community’s desire for NPT threads, and we cannot wait to finally mark that one as implemented. We’re currently testing the workflow and working on the Drawings functionality before releasing it, and we’ll keep you posted when this is dropping.

Since releasing our sheet metal functionality last year, we’ve heard plenty of great feedback. One of the biggest suggestions has been that we need to offer a way to work with legacy sheet metal parts from other design software. With this project, you’ll now be able to import in flat patterns created in any software and create a new sheet metal component by bending to the correct orientation at every bend line.

It’s not new and shiny, but it’s darn important. As an ongoing commitment with every update that goes out to you, we target a significant number of our resources towards solving annoying bugs, eliminating workflows that result in crashes, and adding quick usability enhancements to our tools.

We’ve gotten lots of feedback around this and are happy to have made this available. Your continued feedback is well received and we would like to hear more about your ideas about this feature.

This is a welcomed feature that was introduced this summer with much excitement in the design community. Jake Fowler wrote a comprehensive overview of the functionality, as well as some of the thinking that went into how we implemented the tool – it’s definitely worth a read if you haven’t done so already.

In this forum post from July, Jeff Strater alluded to some changes we’ve been discussing with the Project command. Given the feedback from that post, we’re currently adding a number of enhancements to the command. First, when you hit cancel while the command is active, it will actually delete all the projected entities rather than doing the same thing as the OK button.

Next, we’re going to give you an option to project entities without linking them to the original geometry if you wish. And finally, we’re working on the ability to let you relink yellow projections as requested in the IdeaStation. This project (pun intended) will take some time, but will eventually drastically help resolve those dreaded yellow sketches in your timeline. We recently shared our thinking for with you on the forum, so check it out and let us know if we’re on the right track. 

In conjunction with the modeling improvements we make, we also continue to devote a significant chunk of our efforts at making our sketch engine more stable, more predictable, and more resilient.

Include point probe data in your result plots, as well as associated tables in your reports for a more comprehensive view of what is going on in the study.

This really showed the value of having an end-to-end workflow solution. Promote you Shape Optimization results back into a Simulation Model where you can make design changes and run further studies to validate these changes without impacting your original design.

We bridged more workflows here by connecting data pipelines between Fusion 360, Autodesk CFD and Autodesk Moldflow. Season CFD and Moldflow users were able to send their simplified designs straight to their respective tools without to need to do the import/export dance.

With the repair functionality added to the validate tool, users now have additional tools to heal up poorly translated models.

Speed improvements to the Remove command in the Simplify workspace will allow users working with large models to have a much better experience when preparing these designs for simulation.

This enabled you to override where you want your dimension lines to snap to by giving you more options such as Endpoint, Midpoint, Tangent, Intersection, Quadrant, Center, and Point. Huzzah!

Sometimes you’ll want to have a reference image in your 2D drawing. This functionality lets you do just that.

We made it easier to manipulate center mark or centerline leaders to a custom length by pressing and holding SHIFT. Centermark Pattern command is also smarter and will see your patterns and apply a centermark to all of them automatically once you’ve selected one of the circles.

Rely on where you snap and track along a non-ortho path to get your section view to look just right.

Draw the title block that meets your specific needs, either based on our default template, from scratch, or import an existing DWG title-block.

With the ability to automatically populate balloons and allowing you to edit your parts lists, we’re working on improving parts list column management. This will give you options to show/hide/reorder columns, as well as some additional columns to show if needed.

We’re also working on parts list hierarchy control, which allows you to choose between creating a top-level parts list (as we do today) or all-level parts list. This includes improvements to balloon renumbering. In addition, we’re connecting the linkage between Parts list and BOM so that you can change BOM properties from the Parts list. 

Use this to override the tool orientation specifically for probing, so you don’t have to go back to the setup dialog to select which origin points you want to use for your probe.

Released as a preview you can turn on and try, machine configurations contain information around the axes limits, maximum spindle speed, feed rate limits, and axis configurations that talks directly to post processors.

The much anticipated both-ways adaptive clearing enabled machinists to create 2D and 3D roughing tool-paths that dynamically choose between climb and conventional to decrease linking motion.

We added the ability for you to show, hide, and move columns in your tool library, as well as direct copy & paste data in and out of Excel sheets.

Improving on existing functionality, the drilling strategies now have ease-of-use options such as a hole counter, select same diameter, containment boundary filter, as well as a reverse order option.

We continue to build upon our Turning strategies by providing:

• Sandvik PrimeTurning insert support
• Custom turning insert/holder options out of beta
• “Pecking” feature in Turning Profile and Turning Groove

We’re upgrading the CAM workspace and calling it “Manufacture”, which will not only include the same subtractive strategies you’ve come to rely on, but will also include advanced additive strategies you can select and setup for additive metal manufacturing. This way, everything will be under one roof.

Select the appropriate metals printer for the job, reorient and position the part, give it the necessary support it needs, and send it off to the printer. Everything you need is in one cohesive environment. This first iteration will become available soon to try as a preview option you can turn on and off in your preferences.