Multiple snapshots?

[lukepighetti]

Hey all,

I came from SolidEdge, and it has a feature where you can arrange, joint, orient, show/hide your components and then take a snapshot. So lets say you're doing a jewelry box, you can have an exploded view, one with the lid on, one with the lid off, one with a section view. You can then go through and change between them so you can get quick renders and off to marketing or your customer or whatever.

Is there any way to do this in Fusion without doing a save as multiple times?

I ran into this today because I had drawn my part with some extra stuff for rendering and then decided to start doing CAM work. Well, since it was multiple parts cut out of a single piece of stock I had to reorient the entire assembly as a flat for machining. This meant breaking all my joints, and orientation for rendering. I ended up making two files because I still wanted to go back and render more later if I needed to.

Little did I know that I was going to have design changes, and as a result my rendering file is not up to date with my CAM model. So now I have to go back and redo my rendering file so I can get up-to-date renders.

Is there a better way to do this?

[innovatenate]

I'm not sure that there is a clean solution for this. The addition of XREF's might help with the issue of having to update multiple design files for a single change with the current workflow. According to the roadmap, XREF's will come online in the April release time frame.

Fusion 360 Roadmap:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-product-roadmap/fusion-360-and-fusion-360-ultimate-roadmap-...

Currently, you can add named Views to a design in the model browser. These named views will automatically get rendered in the A360 dashboard. Unfortunately, the named views do not store component or body visibility status (or exploded views). However, you may be able to leverage this functionality to generated rendered images quickly. 

Have you tried using the Animation workspace for this task? Seems like you may be able to set up multiple storyboards, override appearances per storyboard, and show/hide components in an assembly to accomplish these things. The only downfall I'm seeing is that I'm unable to use the raytracing rendering engine in the Animation within Fusion 360 workspace. However, the storyboard will be automatically rendered in A360 dashboard Item Details. See the deep dive into Animations for more info.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-differently/fusion-360-animation-deep-dive/ba-p/5432529

Hope that helps!

Thanks,

[Phil.E]

There are a couple of simple methods to get some of what you ask for. There are of course limitations.

One of the ways I show exploded assemblies (for rendering) is to copy the components and move them apart in the Model environment.

Then set up named views that show the model assembled and exploded, so I can quickly toggle between representations.

In the situation below, I used the Select filter to pick only components for moving. The copy I exploded is not the one with joints.