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Trying to create a warehouse

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:08:04 GMT

Hey guys, im trying to create a warehouse to explain how the flow of goods work inside the warehouse, with the cages, racks, docking bays ect.. for my in service presentation for class.

I was able to draw a 2d floor plan and extrude to 3d, but finding it abit difficult to create fences and cages inside the 3d drawing.

Im still new to fusion 360, anyhelp will be much appericated.

Thanks.
Tiffany P.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:20:09 GMT

I love F360 but it's not the best tool for every job. Of the software I'm familiar with, Sketchup might be worth taking a look at for your presentation.

No wasted time either, you can export what you have and import that into sketchup. They have materials that visually represent fences and cages very well.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

SaeedHamza — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:22:39 GMT

Hi,

Did you try Revit for this kind of thing?

Regards

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

cekuhnen — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:53:02 GMT

@Brady_Fulton

Actually I fully disagree that SketchUp might be better solution - I find sketchup being a super over rated toy.

Fusion offers the same push n pull yet much better design tools and abilities when using Fusion as DM (no timeline).

Cages fences and all that can be easily done with the array tool.

@SaeedHamza Revit is a BIM for architecture - I think what @Anonymous needs is a modeling tool that allows him to represent

shapes that are not so easy to do in Revit.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

SaeedHamza — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:41:05 GMT

@cekuhnen

Precisely. I'm an architect so I've been there

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:43:34 GMT

Well, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I can generate a fence for a presentation in sketchup a lot faster than I can in Fusion.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:52:59 GMT

To get back to your question, can you provide some more details regarding your intent? Even a hand sketch or quick screenshot/cast can increase the chances for receiving helpful feedback. Thank you.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

cekuhnen — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:18:06 GMT

@Brady_Fulton

Then you might use Fusion incorrectly

particularky when adjusting the design efficiently

SketchUp will show it’s insufficiency quite clearly

the only difference is that in fusion you always need to make a sketch

or cplane but otherwise the modeling tools are the same and because how

fusion works vastly superior to sketchup

it is not really an opinion - seen from a bigger picture the generative modeling

adjuatment tools fully outweighs the sketch plane requirement in fusion.

yiu can use fusion with DM and even then still have better direct modeling tools

than what sketchup offers

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

cekuhnen — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:21:35 GMT

@SaeedHamza Knowing Revit should make it clear how not suitable rebut is for this type of modeling.

the modeling tools are good for walls and doors but for the rest revit is rather crippled

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

SaeedHamza — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:32:52 GMT

As I said, I'm an architect that worked a lot using Revit, so I couldn't agree with you more my friend!

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:33:49 GMT

I'm sure sometimes I do use Fusion incorrectly, but when the results work, nobody cares how I got there 🙂

I hope the original poster is making some progress towards finding a solution no matter what software that may be.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:43:58 GMT

I have installed a few apps, but none of them opened up besides fusion 360 and flexsim, I also tried auto cad, 3dmax.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:45:58 GMT

I also agree, expect the fact that fusion 360 crashes alot, I got close to creating what I needed, then lost all my work due to graphics being outdated, I'm trying the fusion 360 edit in browser, which also seems to be really slow.

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:54:14 GMT

Thanks for the response guys,

Re: Trying to create a warehouse

SaeedHamza — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 02:20:31 GMT

@Anonymous

If you're having a hard time creating what you want, you can post a picture of it and we'll make you a screencast of the best approach to do it

Regards

Snapshot from Fusion 360

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:32:58 GMT

Here’s a snapshot I took with Fusion 360

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Re: Snapshot from Fusion 360

Brady_Fulton — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:36:04 GMT

I don't see an image 😉

Re: Snapshot from Fusion 360

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:47:58 GMT

Can i share the link with you,

Re: Snapshot from Fusion 360

SaeedHamza — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:06:37 GMT

@Anonymous

All we're asking for is a picture of what you wanna do

Attach it from here when you post :

Re: Snapshot from Fusion 360

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:26:53 GMT

i did attach the pictures, via my mobile email, but as i see now, none of them went through, sorry for the inconvenience.