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

From the Fusion 360 Team

Quick Tip: Shape Optimization

Shape optimization studies provide a powerful way to lightweight parts in Fusion 360. Watch this QUICK TIP to learn how to use these effectively!

Getting Started with Fusion 360 Tutorials

New to Fusion 360? Check out these customized courses based upon what you are trying to accomplish.

Advantic’s Composite Materials Extend the Toolkit for Engineers & Builders

Advantic uses Fusion 360 not only as a design tool but for sales, marketing, production, & customer service.

Events

Online: Fusion 360 Drawings Office Hours – Join the Fusion 360 drawings team on July 31^st to ask questions, give feedback, get help on a project you’re working on!

• Register – 4 PM EDT
• Register – 10 PM EDT

Online: CAM Fundamentals – Join us on August 3^rd at 1 PM EDT to explore the CAM workspace and focus specifically on general best practices and fundamental knowledge needed to be successful in the CAM workspace. Register here.

Online: User Interface & Data Management – Take an in-depth look at the Fusion 360 user interface and learn how to best manage your data on August 7^th at 3:30 PM EDT. Register here.

Gallery Spotlights

Ray Gun by Andrew Jones

LEICA SL by Rafael Prado

Cell No. 1 by Ja Czu

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:

• Allow Dimension Input Box to Act as a Calculator – When entering an equation that involves only numbers Fusion 360 should return a result in the dimension box. Currently the equation remains in the dimension box.
• Add Real Time Simulation Speed to CAM Simulations – Some way to set simulation speed to real time would be a very useful feature. Perhaps the slider could have an additional tick mark, or a button could exist.
• Re-ordering for User Parameters – It would be great if we can manually change the order of our parameters instead of a default by order of creation.

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