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

From the Fusion 360 Team

December 5^th, Update – What’s New

We dropped some nice goodies in this update related to modeling, 2D drawings, browser client, and much more.

Quick Tip – Render STAT

Check out this QUICK TIP to learn how to get some nice renders from Fusion 360 after addressing just a handful of the wide array of settings.

How rLoop is Delivering the Vision for the Hyperloop

Reddit community members assembled the world’s first crowd-sourced engineering team to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition. With nearly 1,200 members from more than 50 countries, rLoop’s unique magnetic levitation system makes them among the most interesting teams competing.

Events

Online: Quick Start – User Interface & Data Management – Master the user interface and learn how to best manage your data on December 11th at 3:30 PM EST. Register here.

Online: Quick Start – Sketching & Part Modeling – Take an in-depth look at sketching and part modeling in Fusion 360 on December 13th at 2 PM EST. Register here.

Online: 2D CAM Deep Dive –  Explore the CAM workspace and 2D machining operations and best practices on  December 14th at 1 PM EST. Register here.

Online: Quick Start – Assemblies –  Get up to speed with assemblies on December 15th at 2 PM EST. Register here.

Gallery Spotlights

Table Lamp by Alex Lobos & David Villarreal

Drone Ranger by Lam Teng Foong

Guitar Tremolo Bridge by Ace Mitrejcevski

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:

• Material Selection – Would you consider adding material selection when creating a new component? Create, new component, name, then material. It would save time when building assemblies.
• Fusion 360 and OpenFOAM – Enable the use of OpenFOAM as a solver for CFD, FEA, etc by leveraging Fusions modeling and simulation environment to act as a pre and post processor.
• Draft Option for Extrusions and Webs – In Inventor, when creating an extrusion there is a second tab named More and when creating ribs a tab named Draft. These tabs provide the option of creating draft concurrently with the feature. This saves a lot of time when compared to Fusion 360.

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