Export to DWG readable file

[Anonymous]

Just playing with Fusion 360 to see if I can make the move to this platform from Rhino!

So far so good but one of the core things is, that I have to produce 2D drawing's with dimensions and annotation to manufactures.

But when I produce a DWG from a Sheet or via de 360 hub they are NOT readable in Rhino!!!

It does import but the only thing visible is the header without text?

So, how to produce readable DWG file's in Fusion 360 with dimensions and annotations for export to manufactures?

Thanks in advance,

Peter 

Sheet Fusion 360

Import setting Rhino 5.3.2

After import there is NO product drawing!!!

[asiteur]

Hi,

I'm sorry to say that you are posting in the wrong forum. You should be posting here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360/ct-p/1234

Then, I am no Rhino import-expert. But there are two things that you should consider:

1) Is your RHino supporting AutoCad 2013 and above?

2) There are multiple .dwg types, the one here is 'AutoCad' which should be just like the autocad format. If that doesn't work completely... that is not as it's suppost to be and you could report this as a bug.

[HughesTooling]

The drawing is there the only problem is only autodesk products can read it, if your customers have AutoCAD it'll open fine. If you do a bit of a search you'll find complaints going back several years, I don't know why there's such a resistance to giving us usable DWG export. Some people have had luck using DWG Trueview to convert to 2010 format then open in Draftsight, I tried the 2010 format to Rhino but still get only the title block.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thanks Asiteur & Hughes Tooling,

This is SAD news...

Rhino can handle AutoCad 2013 and certainly previous versions.

But as far as I know there are no options in Fusion 360, the Hub or BIM 360 TEAM to save out DWG in pervious versions.

And buying a licence of AutoCad for DWG conversion is no option!

I just tried iCADmac 2016 and it can read and convert PDF's from F360 to DWG.

Though this is not very accurate and comes with a price tag € 698,-

Please, dear AutoCad make a wide range of DWG file format's possible for output in F360!

That would really be the game changer for me.

[HughesTooling]

You should be able to open PDFs with Rhino. Trouble is Fusion's PDFs are not that good, for something simple they work OK.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Here are a few requests on the idea station, please vote them up.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/dwg-output/idi-p/6786331
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/drawing-dwg-export-layers-fix/idi-p/...
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/drawings-add-options-to-export-as-dw...
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/improve-drawing-export-options/idi-p...

Mark

[Anonymous]

Oh...thanks Mark,

Indeed it works, but the translation is not 100% accurate.

But this gives me space to rethink my workflow for now.

[Anonymous]

Just voted all the links Mark, thanks

Cross our fingers and hope this issue wil be fixed A.S.A.P.

[HughesTooling]

Here's another one to vote on.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/no-dxf-export-in-fusion/idi-p/696396...

Thanks Mark