Announcements
Visit Fusion 360 Feedback Hub, the great way to connect to our Product, UX, and Research teams. See you there!
cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Fusion 360 Frame Generator

Fusion 360 Frame Generator

I really loved the frame generator in inventor i always use then in making structural frames and now i am using Fusion 360 its time consuming making every profile sketch of each frame member. So having said that i really loved the frame generator to be integrated in fusion 360 thanks,

 

85 Comments
roel.verpoorten
Contributor

Both links are broken. Can somebody send me the addin?

mail
Participant

@roel.verpoorten and all the other interrested people.
Here you have a new Link for downloading the file from my private Dropbox.
I hope that Autodesk is working on a frame generator to implement this important function asap.

regards
Elmar 

petrol_junkie
Advocate

Hi.

Need to chime in with the others...  We truly do need a frame generator to be able to transfer completely from Solidworks.

Can not for the life of me understand how the F360 team can sit this opportunity out.

 

@matthew.nichols keep up the good work, will be trying your beta version this weekend. 🙂

 

Best regards:

P-J Johansson

Anonymous
Not applicable
Completely agree.
mail
Participant

Hey folks.
I totaly agree that we need a frame generator. And also i dont understand why Fusion does not have it jet.
The making updates every weeks but nothing about that essential function.
I love that you @matthew.nichols put some effort in it but that just a beginning.
I tested your plugin and in my opp its much to complicated to use and anything else than productive.
What we need is smtg like this:


easy peasy bada bomm bada bang Smiley LOL



 

Anonymous
Not applicable

I quit!

I'll come back to fusion when it has a frame gen!

So long and thanks for all the fish!

 

Anonymous
Not applicable
I actually just turned off my auto renewal today and gave frame gen as my
reason.
mail
Participant

In last time I see the big updates are focusing just on CAM. 

matthew.nichols
Autodesk

@cyberbastiaan 

i haven't done anything else with it since 

@Anonymous 

I will be transitioning to a different team soon where i will be able to put some work in on the frame generator stuff.  

was actually 

@mail 

i will be picking this addin back up in september to flesh it out more and add more functionality.

If good enough will be getting it published to the app store.

matthew.nichols
Autodesk

@Anonymous @mail @Anonymous and to everyone else who is interested.

I am submitting my frame generator addin to the appstore today.  I have changed it quite a bit from the initial release that some of you have seen.  I will post the link on here once it is published, but would love to get everyones feedback on it once it is out for everyone to use.

Anonymous
Not applicable

@matthew.nichols 

ibot
Participant

@matthew.nichols 

Really looking forward to it!

Anonymous
Not applicable

I support this feature addition!

matthew.nichols
Autodesk

still working on a couple bugs on my side...but should have the addin on the appstore before long.

helfenj
Autodesk
Status changed to: Gathering Support

Hi everyone,

 

As we prepare to update our sketch roadmap I wanted to provide an update for this specific request. This is on our roadmap and is being reviewed for possible future work. We are actively working on a 3D sketch project that will greatly improve the foundational sketching requirements for quickly generating a frame skeleton, but a frame generator as a feature would be much further out.

 

Thanks,

 

John

mail
Participant

Thanks for the Update @helfenj 

Please understand that its very frustrating from our side.
Since over 2 years your team is working on this improvement and we have nothing we can work with.
@matthew.nichols was working on it and now you say its just a possible future work. 😯

Maybe your team should overthink that CNC, sheet metal and analysis is not everything.
This Frame generator function is realy missing in a "one for all" 3D construction software. 
Hope that the 3D sketch project makes it easier to generate frames.
Maybe you can put a tutorial video on Youtube how to model frames without a frame generator.

Think that will help a lot of people.
Dont get me wrong...ill love your work and the way you implement the users in the project !

 

Best regards
looking forward 
Elmar

helfenj
Autodesk

Hi Elmar,

 

Completely understand. I speak with Matt multiple times a week and am working with him on this stuff as we speak. I'm an old school Inventor guy and completely get what you are saying. Please keep in mind what Matt is building with the API is completely different from our main dev teams build. Matt will continue on his work as he has (he can chime in on that), but soon he will have improved 3D sketching to work with as he builds. I'll get some 3D sketch preview info out as soon as possible.

 

Thanks,

 

John

mail
Participant

Maybe a little help for anybody who´s waiting for the frame generator.
Keep up the good work @helfenj @matthew.nichols and all the others 😉
THX

ejurkoe
Explorer

I would be awesome that Fusion team incorporated the frame generator, i think now days is just not a plus for any CAD, ITS A NEED, as weldements and tube notching. 

matthew.nichols
Autodesk

for those of you on here that have been waiting to test out the addin I have been working on you can access the github repo that i have been building at the following Frame generator addin 

 

Remember this is a work in progress and is not a fully functional addin.  however it will give you access to a little bit of frame building within Fusion.

Can't find what you're looking for? Ask the community or share your knowledge.

Submit Idea  

Autodesk Design & Make Report