Keqing Song
Elevate your design and manufacturing processes with Autodesk Fusion
Our July product update is available for download! This update is focused on maturing our fabrication workflows with Turning. Below is a quick how-to video by our very own Curtis Chan, Fusion 360 Technical Evangelist/rad CAM YouTuber on how to leverage the new turning funcitionality.
Added the ability to create toolpaths for programming singe turret lathes. ( IS )
- Support for ISO standard turning tools
- New Turning setup with support for setting turning setting
- New turing toolpath types
- Profile
- Groove
- Face
- Single Groove
- Chamfer
- Part
- Thread
- Allow users to preview turning toolpaths in web and mobile clients
- Simulate Turning
- Post support
Added the ability to modify equations that drive parameters/defaults in an operation.
- Step over = Math.max((tool_diameter – 2 * tool_cornerRadius) * 0.95; tool_diameter * 0.
Improved load time for cloud libraries.
Added New “Make” pane in toolbar providing access to fabrication tools.
- Easier access to 3D Print
- Britehub quoting service
- New Protolabs quoting service
Improvements in other areas include:
Team Collaboration
Added notification that will appear when design uploads have completed
- Users will receive automatic notification on data upload to their projects
Made it easier to create designs from STEP, IGES, and SAT
- Allow for the user to create a Fusion 360 document from content on their desktop, without requiring upload and translation in the cloud. ( IS )
Added more data management options in the data panel such as:
- Continue to improve the data panel tools to manage data ( IS )
- Promote versions of a design from within Fusion 360 using the Data Panel. ( IS )
- Move items between folders ( IS )
- Deactivate a project ( IS )
- Leave a project (un-invite self from a project) ( IS )
Form
Model
Added the following new features:
- Chordal fillet ( IS )
- Two rail sweep ( IS )
Sculpt
- Revised Match UI and added the Show Deviation option.
- New Collapse option in Fill hole command. This option moves surrounding vertices to a single point with the option to weld vertices.
- Export a T-Spline body’s control cage as OBJ ( IS )
Sketch
- Double-click to edit dimension when in the dimension command ( IS )
- Cursor change in sketch creation commands. ( IS )
- Improved Concident constraint visuals: white dot at point when not coincident, coincident icon at point when it is coincident ( IS )
- Improve VCS performance and feature that contribute to the usability of sketch
- VCS – Solver cleanup/ optimization
- Fixed solve issues
- Fixed drag issues
- Fix tolerance issues
- Improved performance
Function
Render
New Scene Settings tool combines controls for Environment, Background, Ground, and Camera.
New features in Scene Settings include:
- Ability to see the environment in the Render workspace (rasterized or ray traced) ( IS )
- Adjust parameters of the images based lighting:
- Specify the intensity
- Position the environment to create compelling, plausible shots
control the behavior of the ground plane
- Allow user-provided IBL ( IS )
- Added Brightness setting in Environment
Standardize environments across all render targets (Local render, cloud render and mobile 3D viewer)
Improved rendering and graphics quality and performance
- Added OpenGL core profile on Mac (off by default for this release. Core profile does include multithreading optimizations that could offer noticeable graphics performance improvements)
- Improved Large assembly/sketch rendering/selecting performance
- Improved rendering of decals
- Ability to be layered so that multiple decals can be on the same body.
- Improved interactivity of ray tracing while editing scene settings
- Improved interactivity of ray tracing during view manipulations
- OGS shadows and lighting based on IBL data
Option added in Graphics preferences to turn on retina support for customers who are using retina monitors.
Animations
Continued improvements for performance, usability and stability of the animation workspace
- Enhanced Explode action-creation behavior in the Scratch Zone
- Added additional Transform tools to the top-level ribbon for better discoverability
Web Viewer
- Consistent visualization in the web viewer
- Consistent texture mapping
- Consistent prism shading model
Assemble
- Revised the Snapshot command name and prompt to reduce unnecessary snapshot creation.
Application Programming Interface (API)
- Added ability to create C++ addins for commercial or professional, and developers
- Expose C++ bindings to the Fusion API publicly to allow users / partners to build addins using C++
- Added access assembly joints in the API
Learning
- Revamped Learning Resource site with new design and layout
Stability and Performance