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

Quick Tip – Face Groups

Working with meshes? Then you need to know how to use Face Groups. Check out this QUICK TIP to learn how create and use these to great effect.

June 20, 2017 Update – What’s New

It’s update time! This time we bring improvements to Sketching, Modeling, Graphics, and HSM CAM. Restart Fusion 360 and check it out!

Increase Productivity in the Job Shop with CAM within Fusion 360

Take a look at how to increase your productivity in the job shop by using the collaborative workspaces within Fusion 360.

Events

Online: User Interface & Data Management – Join us on June 26^th at 3:30 PM EDT to take an in-depth look at the user interface and learn how to best manage your data in Fusion 360. Register here.

Online: Sketching & Part Modeling – Learn about sketching and modeling commands, constraints, tip and tricks and more on June 28^th at 2 PM EDT. Register here.

Online: Assemblies – Get up and running with assemblies, joints, bodies and components, motion studies and more on June 30^th at 2 PM EDT. Register here.

Online: CAM Fundamentals – Learn general best practices and fundamental knowledge needed to be successful in the CAM workspace in Fusion 360 on June 29^th at 1 PM EDT. Register here.

Gallery Spotlights

Canon FT-b by Rafael Prado

Maysie skins by Scott Mayson

Children’s wheelchair by Tamarin Pakshong

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 popular submissions from the week:

• Can we have a ‘sketch library’? Moveable sketches? – I would be very happy if there were a sketch library that was at the top level that would allow me collect/catalog my sketches (dimensioned features and such) and allow me to import a sketch into a project (picking the plane or face in that project).
• Merge sketches – I would like to be able to merge sketches so I can work with them like its one sketch. I often run into a problem when I want to do an offset in sketch mode on two different surfaces which are the same height, but I can’t then work on both offset sketches like it would be one.
• Pattern scale – I would find it helpful to have the option in the pattern options to have a scale down possibility so each copy in the pattern for example gets bigger or smaller.

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