topic Best Practice - Same Part, multiple sizes in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Best Practice - Same Part, multiple sizes

natemclain — Mon, 04 May 2020 21:13:55 GMT

Good afternoon,

I'm looking for advice for the best practice for generating solid models for some foundry patterns.

They are basically the same shape, just different sizes.

Is there an easy way to generate a model and just do a file save as for each one and change the sketch dimensions? Or is there an easier way?

TIA,

Nate McLain

natemclain@gmail.com

Re: Best Practice - Same Part, multiple sizes

jeff_strater — Mon, 04 May 2020 21:53:16 GMT

@natemclain - excellent question. You can certainly use Save As to create design copies, and change sketch dimensions in each copy. That will work, but is not, unfortunately, associative. If you need to make a design change that is not about size, then you have to put that change into each saved copy. What you really want is "configurations". Fusion, today, does not support configurations. It is, however, a high priority project for us, and one we are gathering requirements for currently, so your interest is timely.

Re: Best Practice - Same Part, multiple sizes

AdamCK7UU — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:06:53 GMT

I'm designing a fence for my CNC and was hoping to do this more elegantly. My current process is to save multiple versions as "small", "medium", and "large", then create a new project and import each version to mill everything in one go.