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Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

Aadithya01 — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 09:47:07 GMT

Hey Guys ,

Is it possible to create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing. Please see the below image where one of my customer wants to place this type of ballooned symbol in his Fusion 360 drawing .

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

TimeraAutodesk — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 01:42:54 GMT

Hi @Aadithya01, We don't currently have the ability to add custom symbols.

What standard do those balloon styles adhere to? Is there a reason they cannot use the ASME / ISO standard balloon styles we currently offer?

Thanks,

Timera

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

Aadithya01 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 04:14:05 GMT

Hi Timera ,

The ballooning style which currently Fusion 360 has is for identifying the corresponding parts with respect to the Bill of Materials .

But my customer why he needs those custom symbols is to tell the people at the machine shop to inspect those dimensions in that corresponding order immediately after the part has been manufactured . That is what the image is all about. And every company has their own standard of showing that in the drawing.

Kindly try to bring this ability in Fusion 360 atleast in future

Regards

Aadithya

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:15:06 GMT

Why hasn't this been developed yet? I'm a paying customer and like a great deal about fusion but the 2d representation is so frustrating. There are so many nuances and different standard that shops and clients need for successful job sales and execution. I just want to make a wood grain direction symbol and I have to edit in illustrator just to do this which takes away the whole dynamic updating perk with working in fusion. This is an autodesk product... the experts in 2d representation tools... its been so many years and such slow progress in this area.... I'm just exhausted already from posting here and asking for updates I had a previous account with my previous company as well...

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

oganm — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:44:42 GMT

Attached is a picture of about 1/2 of the custom sketch symbols I use in Inventor daily. Entire library is well over 200 with very little redundancy. Seeing this thread is 3 years old, are there any plans to add similar function to Fusion 360? This is one of, perhaps the most useful unique feature Inventor offers me that other CAD options lack (of I haven't figured out). Absolute deal breaker for my company. Curious if Autodesk has any plans for a solution to replace custom sketch symbols somehow in Fusion.

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

MICHAEL.JONES.AMCE — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 23:47:31 GMT

Same. The world isn't giving up paper anytime soon. So...we need the ability to create blocks/sketch symbols to properly document the drawings according to our standards.

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

jlarsonLP454 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:14:49 GMT

Bump

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

daniel_kainz_schi — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:56:52 GMT

Same here!

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

enewman7GWE5 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:32:44 GMT

Bump. We need a lot of features that are currently in AutoCad. We use plant3d but I like to make platforms, structures and parts in Fusion. I need the ability to add blocks from AutoCad that we use in our drawings. The title block also needs work. It's nice to have custom inputs but it would be really nice to have a central input window to change properties across all pages and or single pages.

Having to adjust things like drawing numbers gets exhausting when you have to do it to every single page. Even if the edit properties menu was a scroll down window with the properties in each drawing and could manually edit them would be nice.

Re: Create custom symbols to place in Fusion 360 drawing

liang_chen — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:59:52 GMT

Custom sketch symbol has been developed, and will be released in coming Major release on July.

This new feature can be tried on the insider build around the week of 6/15. Please join in the insider proccess and share the feedback with us. Thanks

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