FusionNews for the week of 1/22: A weekly roundup of community news

Shannon McGarry Shannon McGarry January 22, 2016

3 min read

FusionNews highlights the key things that happened over the past week in the Fusion 360 Community. New posts every Friday.

 

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From the Fusion 360 Team 

 

January 23, 2016 Update Is On Its Way

Incoming! We just initiated our product update process and are currently deploying lots of goodies for the next couple of days. Check out what you’ll be able to take advantage of when the update goes live.

 

Fusion 360 Model of the Month – December

Congratulations to Davide Florentino, the Model of the Month winner for December! Davide has used Fusion 360 to design a beautiful air purifier that incorporates plants. Read on for more about Davide, his passion for design, and the projects he has underway.

 

2015 in Review

2015 saw a number of major enhancements in Fusion 360. Check out this infographic for a quick recap, or watch the video to see the highlights and a sneak peek of what’s coming up next!

 

Stickybones Helps Animators Tell Their Stories Better

Stickybones uses Fusion 360 to bring to life their vision of a tabletop stop-motion puppet that helps animators solve their storytelling challenges in a fun, hands-on way.

 

QUICK TIP: Checking and Adding Draft

Adding draft to parts is a requirement for many manufacturing processes. Watch this QUICK TIP to learn how to check and add draft in Fusion 360.

 

 

Events

 

Webinar – Mastering Hard Surface Modeling by Mold3D.com

Please join us live for an interview and demo with Kirill Chepizhko. Kirill will show you how he uses Autodesk Fusion 360 to create amazing hard surface/CAD models for concept design, 3D printing and more! Sign up below to save your seat!

 

LIVE EVENT – Fusion 360 Meetup – San Francisco

Hey Bay Area Fusion 360 users! You’ve been asking for it and we’re excited to announce that we are hosting a Meetup entirely on CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)! 

 

LIVE EVENT – Fusion 360 Meetup – Knoxville

This is our second meeting. We will do another part tutorial and a couple of “show and tell” designs. If you have something that you want to show off, feel free!

 

Webinar – Resolution Efficiency!

If your resolution is to be more efficient in the New Year, this beginners level webinar is for you! Topics that will be covered in this webinar include using patterns, symmetry, and related tools to make your Fusion 360 designs faster than in 2015.

 

 

Gallery Spotlights

 

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Lampshade by Christopher Unbescheidt              Rear Wheel Drive Differential by Pablo Diaz      Stamp for liquid forging by Roman Gerasimov

 

We love to see what you are designing with Fusion 360! Share your designs with the Fusion 360 community on the Gallery.

 

 

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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.

 

Cutting & Pasting from Non-Fusion CAD Programs

Cutting and pasting entities from non-Fusion 360 CAD packages like AutoCAD. This would by sweet!

 

Component update notification in the timeline

It would be useful if the need to upgrade a component was visible in the timeline (yellow triangle).

 

DNC Communications and toolpath editor

I would love to see Fusion incorporate communications into their program, much like Mastercam did with Cimco Edit.

 

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!

 

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 Justin.Hoey@autodesk.com

 

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