Shannon McGarry
Elevate your design and manufacturing processes with Autodesk Fusion
FusionNews highlights the key things happening in the Fusion 360 Community. New posts every Friday.
From the Fusion 360 Team
Best Settings – Smoothing & Tolerance
Ready for the one setting to rule them all for smoothing and tolerance? Read on.
Quick Tip: Wires in Fusion 360
Adding wires to Fusion 360 designs can add a tremendous amount of realism to your renders, or you can use those creations to get accurate length estimates. Watch this QUICK TIP to get a jump start on the process!
How to Work with Large Assemblies
Get some tips and tricks from Lars on how to handle large assemblies.
Events
Online: User Interface & Data Management – Learn how to navigate the Fusion 360 user interface and manage your data on 2/19 at 3:30 PM EST. Register here.
Online: Ask the Fusion 360 Experts – Need help with your latest project? Bring your questions and ask the experts on 2/20 at 2 PM EST or 2/22 at 9 AM EST. Register here or here.
Online: Sketching & Part Modeling – Get up to speed with sketching and part modeling on 2/21 at 2 PM EST. Register here.
Online: 3D CAM Deep Dive – Take an in-depth look at 3D CAM in Fusion 360 on 2/22 at 1 PM EST. Register here.
Online: Assemblies – Learn more about bodies, components, joints, motion studies and more on 2/23 at 2 PM EST. Register here.
Gallery Spotlights
Water Jet Intensifier & Other Pump Parts by James States
Positive Train Control SMM Test Fixture by Glenn Lopez
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:
- Dragging Timeline Objects In & Out of Timeline Groups – Currently, moving timeline objects in and out of timeline groups is not possible. It requires deleting the group first, and then creating a new group and possibly renaming it. Too convoluted for a task that should be a simple case of drag-and-drop.
- Feature Request: Spiral Circular Pattern – It would be nice to get the ability to set a slope for the circular pattern to make a spiral circular pattern.
- Configurations – Configurations is the main thing lacking from Fusion 360. It frustrating having multiple versions of the same file and having to update each one to keep them all at the same level.
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