Hey Fusioners
this may sound different to you but i'd like to export from Fusion360 into the ol' fashioned 2D world. "Why should i want to do that" you may ask... well.. for reasons 🙂
Especially when you're living in a construction world like i do (well mine is primarily hobby driven) and if you're a workshop geek like i am, you live somwhere between 3d printing, cnc milling, probably a lathe and maybe a laser cutter (some of them probably at friends, fab labs or somewhere else). Beeing able to design new stuff in 3D in a sleek and easy way like Fusion360 offers it in most parts is a great opportunity then but you still have to fire up 2D construction software at many points to bring parts of your design - wich probably are going to get milled out of wood, acrylic, to reality. Most of the time this is easy work like drawing the outline, placing some holes and cutouts _but_ you have to do it again in the CAD software of your choice after it was probably already drawn nearly all of it in Fusion360 to get a good view of the assembly.
To give you a good example i'd like to give you a view of a 3d printer design i'm currently working on.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/0acc8764-d2f5-47ed-98a2-eee89808d64a/d6dcf95f121bb3a2aef17daeca...
(sorry, inserting the image didn't work this time - don't know why - that's why only a link is here. Disclaimer: printer design is not mine. i've just imported it and am now reworking some parts and changing stuff).
Now what if you could just export the outlines of the frame panels surrounding this printer each by itself into a path and save it to a dxf file somehow similar like projecting it to an offset plane? Shouldn't be to hard to realise, is it?
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/9b755ce2-d18e-4b00-ac19-70f973059dd3/bca0a23db8737630aee6a5dfbf...
The deluxe version of this could then be a possibility to define bodys/faces/sketches/projects that are "made for 2D" and beeing able to export them all at once to a dxf file on command. So if you have to tweek some things you don't have to export each and every part again but can just click on "export 2d parts" and all the previously marked faces get exported again.
Too much of a dream? I don't think, but i'd even more like to hear your oppinion on this idea.