topic Colored 2D Drawings in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Colored 2D Drawings

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:20:44 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way in Fusion 360 to export a model from the "3D environment" into the "2D drawing environment" while retaining its color appearance instead of converting to just black and white lines?

Thanks

Re: Colored 2D Drawings

kris_berg — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:24:57 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I believe what you want are shaded views. When creating a drawing view you can choose "Shaded" or "Shaded with hidden edges" outlined in red in the dialog image below. Let me know if this does not solve your problem.

Re: Colored 2D Drawings

melvinbrian3d — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:49:31 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hello,

Is there a way in Fusion 360 to export a model from the "3D environment" into the "2D drawing environment" while retaining its color appearance instead of converting to just black and white lines?

Thanks

...

that's very simple, in the DRAWING mode or 2D Drawing environment just double click on the model and change from Visible to Shaded.

Colored 2D Drawings

martin.konarsky — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:12:20 GMT

Hello everybody.

To use shaded view is for me not a solution.

I do not want to change colors in the model. I would like to keep model as it is and in the drawing highlight some lines, or dimensions, or make comments before export to pdf. Maybe add some circles, or rectangles, or remark clouds. I need to highlight different things(lines) for different supplier. I can not change complete model all the time.

Is there any way, or will be there any way one day?

Re: Colored 2D Drawings

g-andresen — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:50:41 GMT

Hi,

@martin.konarsky wrote:

Is there any way,
NO

or will be there any way one day?

Who knows?

take a look at the Roadmap

günther

Re: Colored 2D Drawings

martin.konarsky — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:15:42 GMT

Thanks Gunther,

than I have to continue with AutoCAD........to finish or comment. Which is a pity.

Re: Colored 2D Drawings (Solved)

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:05:35 GMT

... Assuming you love using Fusion360, right? ... You can just make 'the pieces of the 3D object' into black and white using Appearance(s) creating the effect by default.

So for example, for a patent submission you need a black and white 2D or 3D image, right? and if you are using Fusion360 they don't allow you to render your image that way. So to get around it, you can make your Fusion 360 image black and white using Appearance(s) (Hitting S, then A) highlighting the 'edges' you want in black and highlighting the 'surfaces' you want hidden in white -then you can print the image in black and white, and scan the printed image back to .pdf

Thank you,

Re: Colored 2D Drawings

fschollenberger — Thu, 20 May 2021 08:46:56 GMT

Hey martin,

we also face the same problem. As we only wanted to highlight some of the modifications in the drawing with a red circle for our supplier, we made a simple work around, which might help at least a bit:

1) create a circle with desired color and thickness in adobe illustrator or similar programm

2) export it as png with transparent background

3) Insert the png in the fusion360 drawing

4) Drag it to the desired location

We inserted them also in the drawing-template we use daily. There we now have some of the basic shapes in different color to drag over the updated area which is important for our supplier.

Maybe this helps at a bit.

Best, fabian

Re: Colored 2D Drawings

martin.konarsky — Thu, 20 May 2021 09:12:45 GMT

thanks