Fusion360 is still really slow
@infoMA5R8 wrote:
These files sometimes contain a lot of components.
How many?
What is the geometric complexity of these models?
I am generally interested in what industry you work in. My professional background is in custom automated machinery and manufacturing automation. Lots of components, but simple in geometry. But I moved away from the detail design to concept development. For that purpose Fusion 360 is great.
However, even though currently I work for a very small company (40 people), I would not recommend Fusion 360 for our mechanical engineers. We (and 99%of that industry) work with Solid Works and the favorably comparable product in Autodesk's portfolio is Autodesk Inventor.
Lots of components, Weldments, Frame Generator, custom feature libraries. configurations etc.
Lots of tools in the toolbox that make mechanical engineering efficient.
You might simply use the wrong product for your purpose.
My main purpose for Fusion 360, however, is private work. My larger LED lighting systems consist of around 450 mechanical components with many instances of simple geometry. Tho are all natively designed in Fusion 360 and I see no performance problems.
Fusion 360's strength I still see in product concept development. Fusion 360 excels in providing easy access to create complex surfaces and shapes (I work a lot with surfacing) that are used in product design industrial design.
I think you might be one of these frustrated users who got swayed by Autodesk's marketing tactics, which aggressively target Solid Works a market segment where Solid Works and Autodesk Inventor have a 15-year lead. At least!
@Anonymous wrote:
thank you for your time! i need to print tooth gear with teeth at angle.
1) i create dfx file via external soft and import it. 2) i project imported
sketch on offset plane with little rotation (5.6 degree). 3) i thinking of
do loft operation... extruding not an option here.. am i wrong? picture
attached.
Can you recomend some tutorials for scripting this inside Fusion360?
Thank you!
I know this is an old thread but it just got bumped and I reread your post about creating a helical gear. A more efficient way to create it would be to use sweep with a twist. Also only sketch one tooth. Example below and in the attached file is a modified version of a gear created with the Fusion gear script. You need to add a sketch with the path for the sweep but that's all.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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The number of parts sometimes consists of more than 700 parts (sometimes exports of pcb boards), some of which have a fairly simple shape, but also more complex surfaces.
I mainly work in furniture and interior design, but I also draw cabinets for electronics. I use fusion360 mainly for making the working drawings (linked) and fast renders.The Cam module in fusion360 is also very handy.
Fusion360 is also useful for steel cabinets because you can easily convert steel parts to flat metal.
(some parts have many air holes. This then takes quite a long time in fusion360)
I also have another question about this. It sometimes happens that fusion360 gives an error that the part cannot be flattened. I found out that sometimes the thickness is very different per surface (for example 0.0000000000000000658 mm). Is there a solution for this? This is very annoying and takes a lot of time.
To edit linked (step files) I have to use the following command to make a copy that remains linked:
This command is also not very fast.
I also use Rhino 3D in combination with grasshopper (parametric). I have also used Inventor at school to make parametic furniture (very useful for wood where the thickness of the material is always different.), But Inventor LT simply has a lot less tools than fusion360. (Cam 5 axes, render, sheet metal,...)
You write that you only use fusion360 for private use and that all these components are designed in fusion360. I think that's why you don't suffer from a slow-working fusion360. This is not the case with me (many external customers with their own software),therefore the step files must remain linked.
Since I have a paid license for fusion360, I think autodesk should do something about this slow UI response,
since I'm not the only one with this problem.
I use Fusion 360 professionally and privately, but for very different things 😉
My private designs by nature include a lot of imported components such as fasteners and other mechanical components from say from McMaster Carr.
I am not entirely sure what you mean by "linked" step files. Are you using the Anycad functionality?
When you are talking about PCBs I am assuming that includes the complete assembly with all passives, ICs, so with all electronic components?
I was not referring to Inventor LT. But the full-blown Autodesk Inventor Professional.
Don't be so quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater 😉
Not many people that come to this forum work with the Anycad functionality and your workflow seems fairly unique from what I can tell so far.
My aim here is to evaluate your workflow and see if there are possible workarounds and techniques you can use to make things possibly faster. The Fusion 360 team is also fully aware that there is a lot of work needed to improve performance, but these changes are not fast by any means and will not help you in the short term.
In my place of employment and the industry we work in SolidWorks dominates the market and that is unlikely to change. I mentioned Autodesk Inventor Professional as it has comparable abilities and is generally less expensive than SW.