The Very Basics of Drawing Fusion seems to have forgot UI makes it worse

[Anonymous]

It will litterally take you guys like 10 minutes to implement. But this one thing is holding you back from having an amazing start to finish PLM product . You failed to include one of the most bacis of things an engineer uses almost daily. The Depth, Counterbore, CounterSink, Degree and Unilateral sympbols. These are the most basic symbolls that any engineer use to efectivly express correct details on a diminsioned drawing.

I waited weeks for the new update hoping you guys would add these basic things. What I found was some bloated feature that was added for surface finish tolerancing. Are you kidding me!!!!! I have made probably 10,000 drawings on other CAD systems CATIA, Solidworks almost everyone one of them had a depth or counterbore symbol allot had unilateral symbol. However none of them had any surface finish tolerance. Really...........

Here is the only option you leave me with. I either have to use a photo editing program to fake the symbol breaking the paramertization and flexiblity that defines CAD. Or I completly omit this part of fusion. Export my models as STL bring them to another CAD system like CATIA where they have the basic symbols for diminsioning. Which again breaks the paramaterazation chain. 

The symobls that you do give us are very very limited in scope. Currently in the GD&T box you only have acess to Dia. However sometimes you need to fake diminsion so you might need the Dia symbol within a Text/Leader box which isn't an option. Sometimes you might even want some of the GD&T symbols or maybe a +/- symbol. 

You see CATIA has a symbol box where you can Insert any symbol into any text box. This is very flexible and very simple. Yet Very Very Powerful.

[HughesTooling]

For now you can get some of the symbols the same way AutoCAD used to, for example the degree symbol ° you can enter %%d or \U+00B0. Here's a link to some more info.

If you can find the character you need in the character map you can use the unicode method to get it into Fusion.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

I found a GT&D font here, it's actually an autodesk font.

Here's the characters in the font.

You'll need some sort of cheat sheet for the unicodes, or some of the symbols are mapped to the lower case characters.

Mark

[lnonnato]

I totally agree with you. The drawing module is well behind other modules in Fusion 360. In my opinion, this module cannot be called a proper 2D CAD module.

There are so many features lacking: multi-page drawings, choice of line color and thickness, choice of font ...

Taking in account the large number of users complaining about this module in the forum and in IdeaStation, I would expect AutoDesk to be a little more concerned on improving it.

Luiz

[O.Tan]

You can search my thread post something along the lines of "an honest plea to Fusion developers" 🙂

[TMC.Engineering]

Maybe in the second half of this year.... fingers crossed

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-product-roadmap/roadmap-check-in-may-2016/ba-p/6323238

[keqingsong]

@Anonymous Thanks for your feedback; you're among the many who have voiced the need for more 2D drawings functionality. We hear you loud and clear, and are working hard on making the 2D drawings workspace more robust and well rounded. 

On this specific idea, you will see symbols palette in text and leader text in tomorrow's update (June 22). Other drawings features included in tomorrow update are: 

• Title block auto-populate
• Title block insert image
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Multi-asset support (model and animation exploded views)
• Move command improvements
• Pre-assigned layers and migration of old drawings

[keqingsong]

This is coming in tonight's update! http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/june-22-2016-update-whats-new

[Anonymous]

Hey @keqingsong This is great I love how I can use this forum to get things I need and help sculpt a product for the people. There is just 1 symbol you left out I need. It is the Unilateral Symbol. It communicates a very specific thing that I need in my design. That was the last symbol in my comment however It is really the one I needed the most. The others I could use abbreviation for however this is a symbol that needs to be in the feature control frame for proper GD&T dimensioning.

[Anonymous]

Unilateral and Unequally Disposed Profile Tolerance [ASME Y14.5-2009 Section 8.3.1.2]
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