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Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

gallerywallace — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:18:53 GMT

I know this is probably very basic for experienced users - but where can I enter XYZ coordinates manually pre-rendering? I'm not the creator of solidworks files and NOT a 3D person - but I'm now required to take .step files and render them for use in marketing materials. The issue is, no matter what I do, what point I select I cannot get to a point where you can see some the right / top / front (can't get the right side mainly). I think it might be a single-button mac issue? (see attachment). Fusion 360 is really clean well executed progam, but manually entering XYZ is alluding me (

Thanks in advance

Re: Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

Steven_Gao — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:29:28 GMT

If you want to change the views, you can click the view cube or use the rotation tool(Free Orbit/Constrained Orbit). Please refer to the attached picture.

Re: Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

gallerywallace — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:01:17 GMT

Nope, not an answer. I can rotate the cube in all sorts of directions, but a view with top/fronr/right side is not really selectable. TYPED XYZ is what I need. That's entering coordinates like X:10, Y:16, Z:40.

Re: Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

gallerywallace — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:00:16 GMT

Sorry for that reply, I must have been having a terrible day. I'm not great at explaining at what I need, and I'm still battling this chimera. Your explanation got me 3/4 of the way there, and with the addition of creating a new assembly, joint origin/RIGID GROUP - and mostly the ORBIT tool I've gotten 90% of the way. Not able to do this entering XYZ coordinates, which is key. I'll keep trying

Re: Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:16:48 GMT

@gallerywallace

Set up a surface at desired orientation.

Click Look At.

Hide the surface.

Re: Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

gallerywallace — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:14:42 GMT

Brilliant. I'm getting an actual engineer (solidworks guy) to help me set this up. Thanks.

Re: Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:25:28 GMT

@gallerywallace

If I recall correctly they call the Look At command Normal To in SolidWorks.

3 Points to define a Workplane or Extrude a planar surface.

After you set up the view you can save as a Named View so that you can return to that view at any time.

Right click here...