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
PRODUCT UPDATE – November Update Preview
Here are our picks for the top 5 new features that will be available on November 15, 2015.
WEBINAR RECORDING – Fusion 360 for Beginners
Are you new to Fusion 360? Learn about navigation, changing workspaces, sketching, modeling & more.
QUICK TIP – Change Selections
Learn how to more efficiently change the objects selected on your screen.
TIP – Setting up your 3DConnexion 3D Mouse for Fusion 360
3DConnexion users – increase your productivity by using the tools offered by 3DConnexion.
LEARN & EXPLORE
- Dragging items in timeline
- Does your design need some organization? Learn how dragging items in the timeline also reorders the browser.
- Drag components in browser
- Create logical sub-assemblies by creating a new component and dragging sub-components into it.
- Drag appearances to browser assemblies
- Quickly apply materials and appearances to entire subassemblies by dragging swatches to the browser components and assemblies.
USER STORY – Indie developer Sensible Objects merges physical and digital gameplay with Fabulous Beasts
Sensible Objects is pushing the envelope in game design & play with the help of Fusion 360.
Events
LIVE EVENT – You’re invited to the biggest Fusion 360 Meetup @ Autodesk University
Come join us for the biggest and best Fusion 360 user event of the year, the Fusion 360 Meetup at AU 2015.
ONLINE EVENT – Getting Started with FEA
Join us on 11/10 at 1 PM PST to learn how to use Fusion 360 Simulation to analyze parts and assemblies.
LIVE EVENT – Introduction to 3D Modeling with Fusion 360 – London
London Fusion 360 fans! Join us on 11/12 at 6:30 PM to get an intro to Fusion 360.
ONLINE EVENT – Working with Imported Models
Learn how to import various files types into Fusion 360 on 11/17 at 1 PM PST.
LIVE EVENT – Fusion 360 Model Slam – Portland
Portland folks – join us for an evening of design excitement on 11/17 at 6:30 PM.
Gallery Spotlights
We love to see what you are designing with Fusion 360! Share your designs with the Fusion 360 community on the Gallery.
Milling Machine by Jin-Woo Lee Maserati by Gilberto Salas 4 Cylinder Wobbling Disk by Cliff White
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 from this week. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!
Add Boring Heads to Tool Library and Tool Path
Request to have a CAM tool path for boring head operations and the ability to save insert information and description within the tool information.
Request to be able to engrave a line to a sheet metal profile.
Improvements to the Measure Tool – additional snaps
Request to have the measure tool use snaps as the Joint tool does without the need to create additional construction features or sketches.
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.