Integrate Sketchbook Pro and ForceEffect

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Our company designs and builds farm equipment (www.degelman.com). As an avid product designer, our pipeline for our product team is 1st fundamentally founded in the 2D world: hand sketches and/or Sketchbook Pro, hand calculations on linkages etc, 2D Autocad LT to quickly explore many "what if" general geometry configurations, then (sorry) SolidWorks, then FEA.  Most product designers will understand that this is a bit of a circular path until you have reached your prototype stage.   I am pretty new at Fusion and really starting to enjoy the clean clean interface, the features and the general direction.

I am just throwing this out there, but it would be FANATASTIC if somehow the basic functionality and usibilty of Sketchbook Pro and ForceEffect could be neatly integrated into Fusion 360? As a side note ForceEffect needs to expand its palet and include all of the other missing elements such as dampers, springs, gears, pulleys, slots etc (see Working Model)

Lastly, I really liked the way IronCad stored assemblies, parts, components into neat little catalogs - very simple, clean and easy to get at 

For the products that are highly mechanical, and once your Simulation portion is integrated I cannot think of a reason to ever leave the Fusion software to use anouther tool in the toolbox.  My two cents

Scott Degelman

[cekuhnen]

I fully agree being able to sketch in Fusion right away would be nice.

[hanskellner]

I wrote an importer for Force Effect to Fusion 360.  Take a look at this example:

https://fusion360.autodesk.com/projects/forceeffect-motion-walker

It's very basic but maybe it will help with your work?

I'll see about publishing it on Github.

[hanskellner]

To follow up with me comment above, I've posted the script for importing Force Effect and Force Effect Motion docs into Fusion 360.

See this post: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/api-and-scripts/forceeffect-and-forceeffect-motion-import-script/td-p/...

Cheers!

[colin.smith]

We have a project for 2D paint in Fusion that will borrow from Sketchbook. 

[Anonymous]

@colin.smith Will that project support pen input? eg Wacom Intuos, Cintiq, etc

🙂

[colin.smith]

Hi @Anonymous

We already support the use of Wacom tables with Fusion. If you are having specific issues I'd like to know about it.

Digital drawing is pretty useless without a good tablet to drive it.

[Anonymous]

@colin.smith I'm using a Cintiq, and the pen support is not at all good.

• Needing to press shift on the keyboard for rotation is non-optimal, but not a deal breaker.
• Double clicking on lines/edges (in Sculpt mode) to select all of the lines/edges around an object isn't working.  Doing exactly the same thing with the mouse works fine.  This is a deal breaker for pen input (for me).  It's forcing me to go back to using the mouse. 😞

Note - using default settings in the Wacom control panel atm, as I'm not sure if there are better ones to set for Fusion 360.

If there's some way of getting this to work, I'm all ears. 🙂

[Anonymous]

As a follow up, it looks like the trouble I was having with the Cintiq might not be typical.  It's being investigated here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-and-documentation/is-anyone-successfully-using-a-wacom-cintiq-w...