FusionNews highlights the key things happening in the Fusion 360 Community. New posts every Friday.

From the Fusion 360 Team

360 LIVE: Simulation Basics – Want to learn more about the simulation functionality in Fusion 360? Join Aaron as he walks you through Fusion 360’s simulation capabilities, along with examples.

Mechanical and Electronics Design Is Converging. It Has To. – Electronics is increasingly becoming a large part of product design. Learn how Fusion 360 and EAGLE interoperability can help.

Robo Inventions makes the HIRO – Meet HIRO (Humanoid Intended for Robotic Operations), a robot built along with the help of Fusion 360, to take care of menial or repetitive tasks.

Events 

Online: UI & Data Management – New to Fusion 360? Learn how to navigate the user interface and best manage your data on 11/6 at 3:30 PM EST. Register here.

Online: Sketching & Part Modeling – Learn more about sketching and modeling commands, constraints, modify commands, and more on 11/7 at 1 PM EST. Register here.

Online: Direct Modeling – Get up to speed with direct modeling techniques in Fusion 360 on 11/8 at 1 PM EST. Register here.

Online: Assemblies – Take an in-depth look at bodies, components, joints, motion studies, and more on 11/9 at 1 PM EST. Register here.

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 submissions from the week:

• Model based definition for Fusion 360 – For industry and manufacturing reasons/workflows it is pretty important to add geometric dimensioning and tolerancing annotation (GD&T) and other manufacturing information directly to the 3D model. Furthermore it would be also pretty important to retrieve these annotations in the technical drawing.
• Export assemblies with referenced parts in .f3d – You can’t export an assembly with referenced parts like external assemblies/parts in the native Fusion format .f3d. Nowadays it is only possible to export these assemblies as .iges .step .sat .smt.
• Fitting table for technical drawing section – Creating technical drawings which are conforming to standards is an essential thing for production, ERP/SAP and is the last confirmed document. There are some features in Fusion 360 missing, like fitting tables.

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