Fusion 360 IdeaStation (Archived) - Page 3

IanMantula · ‎07-28-2015

I would like to see a way to edit the time line that provides more feedback about relationships and dependencies. I recently tried to re-organise the time-line for a particularly complex design. While I was able to achieve most of what I wanted to do, some of it was just too much trouble. I would like see: The name of each step along with a choice of relevant properties. Feedback on why a step can't be moved beyond a specific point. Visual display of step dependencies. Visual display of error info for broken dependencies. All of this would need to interactive so that changes are applied directly to the design.

kpreuss · ‎03-07-2017

T-splines allow for rapid organic modeling. This type of modeling is very conducive to soft trim development. Please add the Stitch and Seam tool From Alias into Fusion. Please add Zipper tool too.

cekuhnen · ‎03-03-2017

Stitch command in Fusion still does join/stitch patches that are not even connected into on big uber body. This is a serious must have! Something I mentioned around 2 years go already!!! Apps like Rhino will generate individual multi-patch objects based on how patches are sharing edges. Currently I have to select each patch that belongs to a face carefully to only create a stitched surface that makes sense. This slows the workflow down needlessly!

ylevine · ‎07-07-2015

If you have a mouse that has more than 3 buttons, it would be great if you could assign the extra buttons to do things like orbit, go to the home view, and manipulate the viewcube. It would be easy to start implementing this! Many mice let you set a custom keystroke for those extra keys, so implementing it for these mice would just be making more hotkeys in Fusion for common tasks. For example, home key could go home in the viewcube. Control+O (without the left mouse button) could orbit until released. Give it a try with Logitech mice (both ones that use Setpoint and ones that use Logitech Options).

Noah_Katz · ‎02-08-2017

New to F360, mostly find it an amazingly pleasant surprise compared to what I previously used (I-DEAS), but really miss a key functionality. I-DEAS used a single-click of the middle mouse button to variously mean "OK", "done", "done with selection", etc. which saved a lot of the mousing around otherwise required to complete selections, exit a form, etc.

Anonymous · ‎03-24-2015

I create a patch and automatically it's stitched. regards

Anonymous · ‎10-24-2018

It smashes everything together when viewing this from the main forum. Open it, and prepare to be inspired! 😃 Expanding the capabilities of the Align Tool. A simple and super convenient way to do it, add a drop down option in the Align Tool to include a 3 point selection align. 3 Point Alignment Origin Points select 1st point select 2nd point select 3rd point Target Points select 1st point select 2nd point select 3rd point Select 3 points on each of the features, 1 aligns with 1, 2 aligns with 2, 3 aligns with 3. DONE. 8) The mating feature would automatically move and rotate to match the 6 points together. This would be especially useful when mating compound curved surfaces/faces together. Check out the link for the screencast (https://autode.sk/2ywxWw8) to see an example of the issue I'm talking about. I understand there are "work-arounds" for this, but when I think of lining features up, naturally the align tool comes to mind. If I cant use the align tool to align a feature... 8( BLAHHHHH! haha YOU CAN DO IT! 8) THANKS!! 8)

zodiaceng · ‎11-20-2016

I use the Patch environment quite a bit. Having a background in Catia, somethings just drive me crazy, which may be why the Patch environment is so underrated. One in particular is having two intersecting surfaces and wanting to fillet them together. In Catia you can select the two surfaces and an arrow pops up for each surface indicating which direction the fillet should go on the surface so you essentially have four options depending on which way you face the arrows. In Fusion you need to first trim both surfaces, then stitch them together then finally fillet the edge. Working with surfaces this makes the Timeline way longer than it needs to be by adding three more commands than I see necessary before you can even fillet. I can provide some examples if anyone is interested.

roambotics_scott · ‎03-05-2015

I've said this before a few times but it'd be really awesome if you reworked the file format to save and upload deltas rather than the entire design. This will save you (and your users) bandwidth and storage but most importantly, you can atomically save every small change, have an undo history that persists through the entire lifecycle of a design, and drastically reduces the occurrance of things like the following:

Anonymous · ‎11-17-2016

I've been struggling working with meshes ... costing me tons of wasted time and frustration ... watching videos where they had menu items (like "merge" and "mesh to BRep" and such where I didn't. I couldn't figure out why they would remove such valuable functions ... and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Eventually someone was nice enough to answer my posts about why those were removed, or how I could get them. They said I had to enable Direct Modelling ... well I had no idea what that was but apparently it means turn off design history (why don't they just say that). Ouilla! I always use design history so I would have never discovered that otherwise. This seems like basic UI101 ... but anyway ... better late than never, yes? Let's gray those menu items out and add context-sensitive help to instruct the user how to enable those functions. Are there any other menu items that get hidden at various times? I don't know, but sure would be nice to know. Thanks!

Anonymous · ‎09-08-2018

Although it was archived (https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/tangent-display/idi-p/6439435) this is a very importent function in the workflow - you can see clearly if you succeeded in creating a tangent surface.

Anonymous · ‎07-26-2016

Trimming and knitting two surfaces together takes way too many steps. SW manages to do this with one mutual trim feature. You select all the surfaces you want to knit, and then interactively pick the areas to keep (or discard; there is a toggle for that), and when your satisfied and hit "OK" the surfaces are trimmed and knit together.

cekuhnen · ‎10-02-2014

I know Fusion is not Alias, but Fusion models in Alias look very heavy. Could you include a single span or span / cv controll into the surfacing tools? In the image below you can see the bad comb of the Fusion model (spans) and the smooth rebuild in Alais in front.

Anonymous · ‎06-03-2016

would be nice to be able to control the strength of the tangency of the Patch surface. Currently, the options are connected, tangency, and curvature. Under tangency and curvature, should have advanced options to control the magnitude

cekuhnen · ‎06-08-2014

The Split command in time line allows me to split Breps and later I can select the results and delete them. But it would be nice to simply like in Rhino/Alias have a trim command which simply allows me to have an option to tell Fusion what to keep and what to discard as well. This would slim down my time line. For this simple shell I have already more feature entries than needed in Fusion compared to Rhino. As you can see I just select the surfaces and tell Rhino to make a solid - which is a combination of trim and join all at once. Of course it is great to have just a plain trim/split command as well but like in this situation it is not ideal in its current form. This is a basic model and with more steps the timeline will get longer unnessesary. Maybe like Rhino Fusion should get a make solid command as well.

maruska · ‎03-21-2016

Pretty much in the title. I'd like to double click a component or body in the browser to quickly have it framed and centered in the viewport.

cekuhnen · ‎03-01-2014

The solid modeling approach is a good way when all you deal with are solids. However if you do not have only solids it seems very limited in what you can do with it. Here is an example: Cloth iron body with a water spout tube in front: Spout is a BRep made by a TS object. I added some Caps as a Base feature but cannot join anything with the BRep of the spout BRep I really have to start in DM mode add my TS object convert to Breps patch in the open caps join the patches into solids. Then when I start the time line I can mix the object together - like adding a fillet command after the combine feature - and go back in time and move the spout solid But here is another draw back of the parametric env without patch tools. It limitis you only to mixing solids. Here I started right away inside DM and used the split, unstitch and loft command to build a custom blend between the spout and main body resulting in more control. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2TnZfTWFVamxzMkk/edit?usp=sharing But what I cannot do is move any of those objects like the spout rotation or the cylinder which cuts the cloth iron open and then let Fusion reapply the blend command. Here is a video from Alias showing how I sketch curves and create surfaces, project the curves onto the surfaces trim and everything updates when I move the input curves. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2Vm9yRk5wZlFrWFk/edit?usp=sharing sorry the alias crashes here is a screenshow where I added a blend command and moved the right circle you see everything updates well. I hope this makes clear why I think also in the design time line this is imperative to have. You cannot only work with solids.

IgorKlints · ‎03-01-2018

Its shown in this video! Hi guys, I think each of those who use this program, faced with this problem when we can not bend our sketch along the curve. I've seen many requests in this category, many of them were really ridiculous. If we focus really on those technical functions that we need to work. We will help to make this product better. Thanks.

CapGuy · ‎12-28-2017

Hello, Please ad a sketch align tool which works as in all standard drawing softwares, says : center align, border align and so on... For now it is a pain to place and move sketches, we need so much counter-intuitive artifices than it is very disappointing and discouraging for newcomers. It is a pity because all 3D behavior is amazing, and it is very difficult to understand the sketch functionalities miss this. BTW : allowing all these standard kind of alignments between sketches and bodies/component/surfaces could be also a very good idea... Thank you very much for your time and your attention. Best Regards, Guy

Anonymous · ‎12-17-2017

This should be a no-brainer. Storing source code at GitHub would facilitate rapid development of addons by the open source community with more checks and balances, better testing, and swifter performance. And if you took it a step further by permitting development of the core by the open source community Fusion 360 could be developed much faster and with far fewer bugs and security vulnerabilities. Fixing existing bugs would also be more streamlined. This would result in a huge savings in development costs, a more prominent web presence, and lower subscription rates for the consumer. It's a win-win for everyone.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎11-23-2017

when deleting a file/folder Fusion sometimes says that the file is being used in another file. Instead of that prompt, it should tell you saying what files it is being used it and where that file is.

Anonymous · ‎08-28-2017

When splitting a face or a solid, the extend splitting tool sometimes takes ages (like 30minutes on complex models) to complete and we should be able to cancel this operation. Furthermore this option should be disabled by defaut and only checked if the design permits, which is mostly simple geometries and planes.

cekuhnen · ‎04-06-2015

So for example here I would like to insert at a specific point geometry and have the following happening: 1. maintain curvature - maybe if needed remesh the topology to maintain curvature (like when with NURBS when you insert an ispopram) 2. This should be the same when edit face of a BRep since Fusion does not expose CVs for cage edit for Breps

cekuhnen · ‎03-31-2015

the square mesh is missing. Fusion lacks CV cage edit for sculpting with NURBS surface - but for that the edit face (Brep to TS) combo couldwork (only if we can have survatures combs in this mode as well btw) so it would be great if I could just place a mesh and then start sculpting that Brep patch Otherwise I have to split the base feature in to base feature + TS feature ...

Anonymous · ‎07-21-2017

I really like the decal feature, however; I think it could be better! When I apply decals, sometimes I want to overlay one decal on top of another. I think it would be cool if the program had some sort of layering system for these decals.. Somewhat like Photoshop does. I cant seem to figure out if it has a way of ordering them so this would be a big help! Ryan

cekuhnen · ‎03-31-2015

TS surfaces can use the curvature comb but when converting a brep on the fly to a TS for sculpting you cannot use the curvature comb!!!!

Anonymous · ‎03-28-2015

Hi, I noticed that when using patches often is not possible to stitch because the tolerance. We have to play with numbers to find the right tolerance. Probably the patch feature is not very accurate. I think we should decide at what resolution the patch must be executed or Fusion360 should suggest the best tolerance. regards

Anonymous · ‎05-29-2017

Hello, I tried the search and couldn't find a similar post. I find myself occasionally frustrated not being able to find a center point between two points, the points might be points of different geometries or whatever. You can of course work around it by drawing boxes and find the center point that way but I think it would greatly improve the workflow by implementing a simple tool that would give you a center point between A and B.

viorel.stolea · ‎02-12-2020

Happened to me a few times. I import a large mesh or an .svg with to many points and I try to select everything or use somehow the too complex feature. Fusion is grinding the data but the UI is not responsive anymore. Activity monitor shows Fusion as "Not Responding". Fusion should separate the UI thread from the processing thread and allow the user to "break" the last attempted operation (warnings and all). Only solution I found to be able to get back to my work is to kill Fusion and open the last recovered version of the project I'm working on. Running on an old mac - 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Radeon RX 580 4 GB Imported mesh I tried to select has 10K faces. Thanks

cekuhnen · ‎04-02-2017

fusion only allows you to drag the size not the position of a variable to move filet points I have to select the point on the curve and then use the position dialog and adjust the numbers this is not very intuitive nor fast to work with fillet point

cekuhnen · ‎04-02-2017

Would be amazing if the positional data is present also in the dialog and I do not have to click on to a fillet point to see the positional data.

Anonymous · ‎12-13-2016

Images can be designed with help of canvas tool. Place the image and start sketch and go to patch mode extrude.Add thickness. This sketch can be engraved in machine or 3d print in a frame. Marshal W http://a360.co/2hHZtA8

matth · ‎11-29-2016

Consider adding CFD simulation. It is so much easier saying, then doing it I am sure. MSH

Anonymous · ‎11-19-2016

Sabemos que hay Autodesk Training Center y Academic Partner en todo el mundo. Pero lo que es curioso, es que cada centro imparte capacitación a su conveniencia, a su estilo y bajos sus criterios. Mi idea consiste en estandarizar toda la capacitación mundial del software de Autodesk Fusion 360 en todas los ATC y los AAAP de manera que cualquier usuario pueda hacer un nivel básico en cualquier país y seguir con niveles avanzados en cualquier otro país. Mi idea se extiende a todos los software de Autodesk. Pero por otro lado comento también, que si se expone una idea, es porque se ha detectado un problema o debilidad a lo que esta idea, generaría la respectiva solución. Basado en este criterio, informo que nosotros @ATCAbstract hemos estandarizado la capacitación en Inventor, Fusion 360, AutoCAD y Revit. y a todos los ATC y AAAP que lean este post, le ofrecemos la voluntad de apoyarles para unificar criterios de esta filosofía de capacitación mundial. Si les pareció útil esta información, por favor dar clic en Kudos (Los kudos son fuentes de motivación para seguir aportando en esta comunidad)

thanh.nguyen · ‎11-16-2016

Hello Team, I have idea which will be very useful for 3D curve creating! Fistly, creating 3D curve by combining two 2D curves as many other CAD softwares can do. It's like extruding two 2D curves and the intersection of those two surface will be the desired 3D curve. Sedcondly, extract 3D curve from edges of surfaces.

Anonymous · ‎11-09-2016

At least in certain joint configurations, dragging a component may cause other components to jump far out in space. If that happens, working on the model may become impossible as at least some display drivers cannot handle geometries with a very wide span of dimensions (e.g. details on millimeter level while model extents span over one kilometer). There should at least be a warning if a component is about to move very far out compared to the rest of the model. In addition as a means to removing problems with outlying components, there could be an easy way of selecting or removing components outside a given distance from the origin.

Anonymous · ‎10-19-2019

we need a way to select a body and make it a whole new object, no different than a sphere or cylinder, and delete the history attached to it. i was under the understanding that convert to dm, was what i was looking for, but you can't just select a body and convert it, so that i can get rid of countless timeline modification that are bogging down the ram. the software is laggy, and slow, starts acting very stupid, doing things you never meant to do, because the processors are catching up, and calculating all this nonsense, and modification. dm feature only converts timeline stuff, which results in unpredictable errors, and yellow blocks. sometimes spontaneously deleting parts you made. so if i cut out a cylinder, and give it threading to make a gear, i don't want to pattern 550 gear teach for the computer to compute every single one every single time. maybe its not possible, but itd sure be nice so that the software can run as smooth at the end of a project as it does at the beginning. or, if i go back and delete a line from a sketched object that i used to draft one part. i can't delete this without a timeline error. makes no sense to me, why a timeline in the present can't be holed separately from a drafting point. so, converting to a new object would bypass this, and allow me to delete thousands of drafting lines that sometimes, never disappear. or rails, and whatever else.

cekuhnen · ‎03-07-2014

Here is an example why I need an untrim tool in Fusion: The previous openings I cannot loft so I want to build a new tunnel and cut it. But for that I would need the trimmed surfaces to untrim! We have stitch and unstitch so logically we also need a trim and untrim combo!

cekuhnen · ‎03-01-2014

Scale is very important to have as a feature. Currently we can move and rotate - so why not scale: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2YUgxMzZ0ME9EcWc/edit?usp=sharing The video shows that I would have to enter the TS edit mode to stretch the resutling Brep. Too many steps: enter TS select edges move adjust exit edit mode ... In parametric I just scale and move This feature is also very useful when scaling design results like a dial which is made out of a button + all the radial extrusions booleaned into it.

cekuhnen · ‎02-25-2014

I cannot extrude from a profile which however in Patch Mode I think is a rudimentary command in any other surface modeler. I would have to create a surface first to extrude And then I end up with the planar surface I need to delete afterwards

gordonclamp · ‎08-28-2016

I have commented on this facility on several occasions. Tempted to give up but feel it would save a lot of designers a lot of time if updated, which is what Fusion 360 should be about. a) Offset knows which way you are moving the line, so why is a minus sign required to ensure the offset line is placed correctly. The adjacent dialog box readout is not large enough to show the minus sign so each time you have to lift your head to the main dialog box to confirm whether the direction is plus or minus. b) Why can't you offset an offset line. Why do you have to go back to the original line each time, this can require a calculation (be it minor) where mistakes can be made.

Anonymous · ‎08-19-2016

Patch menu is not necessary. I don't find it useful. You could use meshes, patches and solids all in the same environment with no need to switch from model to patch. I also found this I-DEAS feature very usefull: parts became solids only when all surfaces were stitched. If this condition was not satisfied you had a sort of quilt with no volume.

Anonymous · ‎07-30-2016

I have read some things about how making an editable body out of an STL and why everyone thinks it is impossible. I recently manually converted a small STL profile into F360 using sketch sections and lofting between them. If the developers could make a tool that takes many sections (depending on user selected resolution) and then lofted between them it would be a great help. Look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely JCP

cwliendnt · ‎07-28-2016

First I would like the thank the development team for the quick upgrade giving us the new features. However as I am in an education institute where installing of software is done only by authorise personal. These constant upgrade is a nightmare as each upgrade required my tech assistant to reinstall the software else it will not work for all user. He try upgrade the software but it only works for him. Is there a solution to this? Is it possible to allow older version to work without the upgrade? Please advise. Ignatius Lien

Anonymous · ‎07-27-2016

i am sorry for directly comparing the features of different other packages. its just that i cant write down all the features here. My sincere request to the Developers is to have a look at other parametric molding tools and also the Creo Direct modeling express tool, their Sketching modeling is so very intuitive to use to makes sketches and use them for 3D and make it more user-friendly. Please improve the sketching module from parametric aspect as well as the from snaps point of view, there are soo many snaps which fusion Sketcher has missed out on. please look into it to develop fusion as a free form modeling tool as well as engineers geometry driven tool with snaps prompting the dimensions. this would improve the productivity of an engineer and help make fusion real fast and leave solid works behind in-terms of hybrid modeling functionality. \ i am not asking you to do directly what other competitors offer, My intention is to show fusion the features they lack and ask them to add features more intuitive and more functional to do things in a way exclusive for fusion and set a trend in the market.

lure23 · ‎11-07-2013

Cannot stitch an element to meet its mirror I’ve got a cabin with the right part mirroring the left. Unfortunately, there are some gaps in between the two so I thought to connect the benches with the ’Patch > Stitch’ tool. This should be used for such things, right? Only, it does not allow stitching an element with its mirror image. The problem is, as a user glancing the design, I wouldn’t know if the implementation of the form uses mirroring or not. The limitation feels arbitrary - it’s the mechanics within the program standing in my way. The tool could figure out that the surfaces are mirrors, and extend them towards each other (i.e. extend one of them, having the other one retain the mirroring) until they meet. Why not? Picture after I've tried to select the two halves of the bench to stitch them together. I’m not looking for a way around this, using some other tool or mindset (there are already too many such limitations in Fusion - things should Just Work). Fusion 360 1.8.679, OS X 10.9

cekuhnen · ‎05-22-2016

Please make crease remember the geometry selection type! deselect TS edges in the next TS crease command it shows Select all and ST Edges being active again !

cekuhnen · ‎05-22-2016

because TS crease is slow it is very slow to work with it when selecting edge by edge better would be a freeze so I select all edges and then let it crease on my command!

Anonymous · ‎05-13-2016

Hello guys, First of all I would like to thank everyone at Autodesk for making this awesome program that is super simple and fun to use. One thing that I would like to see done is the ability to reorder the sketch list. Make it so that the newer Sketches are on top of the list and the older Sketches are on the bottom of the list. There could possibly be and option like a small drop down arrow that you can click on to have either Old-New or New-Old. The reason, I think this would be a great idea is that, honestly as my designs get more complicated the list of Sketches starts to get really high I'm talking about maybe 90-100 sketche to a design that is very complex. It is kind of frustrating everytime you need to go back to a recently done sketch you have to open up that list and scroll all the way down, find which sketch you want and then close it back up to unclutter the workspace some. You end up doing these steps quite alot. Therefore if the Sketch order could be reversed where your newest sketch would be up top then you can just open your drop down sketch and there it is. The older sketches are not as important anyways b/c they already have been done and you are most likely satisfied with what you made already. I think this make it even easier to work on designs as you dont have to go searching for your sketch all the way down the long list. Your latest sketches would be right up top when you click on the drop down sketch menu.

dennismccloud · ‎03-19-2016

I'm a new user who downloaded Fusion 360 for the Mac last week. There appears to be a problem with the Fusion 360 ShopBot post processor not including the spindle start command. After spending an hour trying to get my first job to run without success, an expert on Fusion 360 and ShopBot provided me with the following fix: ‘ Added ,1 to end of TR TR,10500,1 ' Commands to add to start spondle SO,1,1 PAUSE 2 ' End Added Lines The standard output from the ShopBot OpenSBP postprocessor does not include the required "SO,1,1" Spindle On command. This requires any ShopBot user to research and add the commands to every postprocessor output file prior to running. Now that I know the command to add, it is not a lot of work but fixing the postprocessor will prevent frustration for future users.

gordonclamp · ‎03-04-2016

I have attached 3 screen shots of this problem. The cut out in the bracket was put in for visual reasons only. You can see in the last screen shot the bracket has re-orientated 180 degrees after selecting the sketch plane. This is a problem as you could start working away, unaware that the model has rotated, ok if your work is equi-spaced around the brackets centre line but not otherwise. When creating a sketch plane the model must remain in the selected orientation.

Anonymous · ‎02-03-2016

When extruding, need the ability to specify draft per face. This would allow for different draft angles per face with some faces having negative, positive, and zero draft. SDRC had this functionality 20 years ago!!!!

Anonymous · ‎01-30-2016

Need tangency option for a SWEEP profile. Tangency, direction, and smooth would be nice, but tangency at a minimum

cekuhnen · ‎03-30-2013

It was mentioned in the old forum, so I post it here again: Currently when I create geometry from sketches and edit the sketches afterwards the changes are not applied to the geometry as well. This prevents me from using Fusion360 as a conceptual modeler where I explore design ideas and styling through out the modeling process. UI.png Image: Currently you can see the new body that is created, with the two extrusions I used, a cube and cylinder. In an ideal situation I can click on the cylinder extrusion feature and edit then hight and radious of the cylinder. Currently I have to go into the move face mode, which works somewhat. But in the image I can only select the bottom cap of the cylinder not the top cap which is outside the cube volume. Error.jpg: Also what Fusion360 is doing with the cylinder volume is not making sense. In the following picture you can see that I can move the cylinder to the edge and thus recut the cube. Thats fine, however it seems I cannot bring the cylinder back into the cube center.

Anonymous · ‎11-25-2015

Hi everyone, Fusion360 doesn't seem to let the user toggle visibility of the selection sets, it would be very useful if there are multiple large selections of bodies, and you only need to work on one at a time.

Anonymous · ‎11-02-2015

Hi all, Title pretty much sums it up. It is difficult to select a planar face on a round/ curved body, it would be better if you could select a view point, and perhaps draw the section markers in a 3d sketch form of operation

Anonymous · ‎10-12-2015

Hey everyone, I'm a fusion360 user, not sure if this has already been posted- having a toolbar that links material choice to a panel that relates directly to suppliers and other manufacturers for costs and availability would be amazing, I know this is no small task to ask of, but as a manufacturer and designer, this would be a very valuable tool to me and I'm sure many others would agree. Perhaps displaying the stocked item- the price and the available amount, would be a plus if there was also an ETA for shipments of said material. Further to that, a way to actively purchase the material directly from the CAD software. I can imagine obvious drawbacks such as integration of such a massive network spanning countries, hundreds of companies needing to have their own output of the software to have an affliation or partnership with Autodesk. If such a thing were to exist, it would make the process of ideation- development- production much more efficient in many ways. Thanks for your time!

Anonymous · ‎02-26-2019

Now that Fusion has control point splines. It would be nice to have this option for Lofting also. What Rhino calls a "loose Loft". There the profiles are used as control curves for a surface instead of like a regular spline where the surface is forced through the profile. Instead it can "drag" the surface in that direction. This will improve Fusion360 to produce complex smooth (faired) surfaces. A nice inspiration is how this is done with Rhino in this blogpost: http://rhinocentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/rhino-rapid-hull-modeling-methodology.html

cekuhnen · ‎03-31-2015

Fusion converts a Brep into TS with a set face interpolation / match to maintain curvature. It would be useful if then in addition we could select an area where to insert a curve to deform (cvs or edge) while mainting curvature to the original Brep

dunderhead · ‎02-17-2015

The selection is often lost with little or no justification and then cannot be restored except by hard manual work! Case in point: turn on (or off) a section analysis view. Or: aborting certain operations. Suggestion: add a virtual selection, called Last, in Selection Sets, with a nice little icon. Clicking on it restores the last selection. (The Selections Sets folder will then always appear because it's non-empty.)

Anonymous · ‎10-11-2018

Makes me frustrated because im not used to new controls. Thank you.

cekuhnen · ‎02-06-2015

The fillet tool in Fusion allows you to do G1 and G2 but does not provide any scale ability to massage the curvature comb. G2 is more or less not as useful when I cannot sculpt the flow, and the default result in Fusion is not ideal. Below is an Alias screenshot with the default blend curve with a nice and smooth flow. I also activated the G1 G2 handles so I can change the shape if desired like in the right image!

21652157 · ‎09-09-2018

it would be very interesting to handle stl with a lot ot faces. So far Fusion dont work with stl files with several faces. We can work with this kind of moldel, cutting, moving, simulation of movement etc. Recall that meshmixer can be some of that things. So I think that would be very easy to implement Gilberto

victorcortez · ‎12-05-2014

Autodesk drawing edit ( not block) DWG or DXF for elaboration cnc machining parts often designed mechanical parts for preparation of manufacturing cnc cutting for which a dxf or dwg file that provides inventor files in the drawings which are then easier to edit in AutoCAD is required

smartin015 · ‎11-23-2014

When I went to post-process a toolpath in the latest update of Autodesk, the the dropdown .cps file I normally use (grbl.cps) was replaced with the generic Acromatic config. I only noticed this right before running the gcode during a sanity check. This is kind of dangerous, y'all. My machine doesn't like acromatic and tends to print enormous circles about twice the size of the machine's work area when it reads it. This makes for a very sad CNC machine, so it'd be much appreciated if you could keep the post process config the same in between updates. Thanks!

tkuechle · ‎07-30-2018

Selection filter for surface body color. Thank you.

fprico · ‎07-22-2018

Display control points in patch surfaces like it is in t-spline, also the ability to change the number of CVs in the U and V direction.

cekuhnen · ‎09-05-2014

i do not want to browser be filled with old input geometry when not needed. so please add a keep tool option so I can tell Fusion not to keep the input data and only present me with with selected cell.

Anonymous · ‎06-08-2018

When clicking on a body in the model, its nearly impossible to see what i've selected on the history capture tree. Those 3 strip wolverine slashes is by far the worst way to indicate what i've selected. To through salt on the wound, when I actually go down to the capture tree and click on something, it shows it highlighted. I'd like to request that it also highlights when i click on the physical body in model. And please make the highlight more visual. As a mater of fact, please bump all things that visually represent "Selection" stronger. Everything is so mono and muted that its actually a bad visual user experience.

cekuhnen · ‎07-26-2014

as you can see I cannot use the surface edge as a rail and then also have no controll when using the sketch to use surface conttinuity controls. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2M1RZV0c5cmQ5Y0U/edit?usp=sharing

cekuhnen · ‎07-26-2014

I wish Fusion would allow me to adjust the blend weight here as I can only select G0 G1 and G2 but not adjust it.

cekuhnen · ‎07-24-2014

Fusions 360 loft interface is fine for simple lofts - for using rails it is insufficient and complicated to use. Inventor for example lists edges used for profiles and rails in separate areas.

Anonymous · ‎04-21-2018

when extruding, it would be beneficial to control what bodies are being joined when extruding. The operation would be very similar to the cut operation.

Anonymous · ‎04-12-2018

Please combine your several different programs for working with Mesh into Fusion. Not like now where you have to switch between different programs to accomplish your task. I want to be able to turn a mesh into a solid (better than now) and triangles into quads directly in fusion. I want to lay out a surface on a mesh, think add surface in t-splines but it snaps to the mesh so I can build a t-spline body by patching it up. with more and more scanning, 3d-printing etc working with mesh, solids, surfaces and free-form things all at the same time will be crucial in the future.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎02-28-2018

Fusion would be better if it had a feature that automatically makes multiple animations, and it allows you to change some things like lighting, Shadow and what kind of animation(exploding view of the object, a 360 animation and so on). I feature should be like the cloud render that fusion already has and personally think this would be a great update to Fusion 360 if this feature is implemented.

Anonymous · ‎12-04-2013

Numerical input is fine however I would love to spin up or down dimensional input with the scroll wheel or at least up down arrows. Also being able to "tic" and movement with the arrow keys can be handy for the fine tuning work. This has application in sculpt Model and Patch modes

Anonymous · ‎12-17-2017

New users and sometimes more experienced users as myself cannot find a direct link back to the Ideas startpage or other pages. The breadcrumb navigation is ideal for skipping directly back several levels of previous pages without having to continually use the return button on a browser. Please move the breadcrumb navigation to a more prominent location or set the anchor links font color to a brighter color. This is how breadcrumbs appear. They're beautiful but difficult to find.

apachehugh.vandecasteele · ‎12-10-2017

Hi! While I was trying some configurations to build a perfect Fusion 360 workstation I struggled a lot because of the lack of benchmark integrated in Fusion. I succeeded in the measuring the fps for basics model rotations but it's painful and there is no way to rapidly measure speed in simulations or rendering. A lot of people want to know if their machine can run Fusion and a benchmark with a forum thread and every result could really help people in their hardware choices to properly work with Fusion 360. Bye! Hugh

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎12-06-2017

I think fusion should have a feature that allows it to auto upload file. It should auto upload files which are in a specific folder. So inside Fusion 360 there should an option where it says auto-upload files, so it keeps uploading any files which are in that folder, so as soon as a new file is dropped into that specific folder it is uploaded to Fusion 360. I am not quite sure if this makes sense so if there are any questions feel to ask. Thank you.

Anonymous · ‎11-13-2017

Hi, I'm working with a team in fusion and i would like to have a Ilogic and a customisable library on the teamserver so that when ever we are re-using part without changing the first part i know that you can break the link but this is not very effective when working in a team and also working with production... I've mad a library folder in the team workstation but the only option is for my teammates is to be a editor or just to be a examiner. so every time they need a part they need to break the link manually. there should be an option to put the teammates in something between a editor and examiner so they can import the part whitout the link to the orginal part or skeatch.

svonwiller · ‎11-07-2017

Hi there I am modelling up industrial design concepts and playing around with parameters a lot. That's I believe basic for all designers or engineers while optimising their design. It is quite annoying every time I edit a feature like a filet, chamfer, shell... that I have do double click the feature and then click into the value field for the e.g. radius. Since for a lot of features there is only 1 value needed. It would be super neat if per default, the value field for such features would be activated so you can just, double click, enter a value and press enter - done. That would improve the workflow of Fusion 360 a lot. Thanks for considering. Best, Stephan

cekuhnen · ‎08-23-2013

It seems Fusion 360 has an issue trimming parts of a patch that is inside the model. I used different display modes but no mode highlight the parts correctly I wanted to remove. It would be great in that instance for example if Fusion can give you the option to either remove or keep what you select as well. So in this case I select the wheel rim design as the cutting tool, select the wheel outside and decide to keep that one so Fusion cuts the overlap inside the model. Here is a cross section view showing the fine thin strip overhangs inside the model. I could use the split tool but with a geometry like this the amount of steps I would have to do is too much to expect. Also as a side note because the zoom issue not being able to get very close the mouse has issues also even selecting the geometry I just split. And unstitching an object with 246 patches just to remove those strips will be painfull 😉

pjreijiri · ‎10-13-2017

Hello, One thing is really bothering when working on fusion 360 especially after getting to a complex structure is when you create multiple features, then you join two objects (can be through the regular extrude tool, not necessarily the combine tool), while having a third object, but you will have it set as invisible so it wouldn't be included in the "join" process. Then you go back in the history timeline, do some changes and re-roll the history to see your results, you will find the three objects joined and multiple actions affected by that afterwards (project, etc..). And you will have to find where that "join" happened and fix it. Why not make sure that each body has its own "serial number" and it the process use that serial number to do different operations?

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2017

I want to share some bugs. First of all Fusion 360 often crashes when it the Mac goes on sleep mode and if it is not in use for approximately two hours. Another bug I have seen, is if an image is uploaded the viewcube doesn't work until the program restarts. Thanks for your great program and these support. Hopefully these bugs will disappear in the next update. Best Regards.

Anonymous · ‎08-17-2017

Currently camera controls are a bit limited in Fusion. Specially for rolling the camera, you either roll all the time, or you constrain the camera roll to never roll. Here's an example of the camera navigation in Cinema 4D: 1 key + Left Click = Pan 2 key + Left Click = Zoom 3 key + Left click = Orbit 3 key + Right Click = Roll 3 key + Shift + Left Click = Reset Camera Roll angle. Please watch the attached GIF to see how the roll behaves in Cinema 4D I think an implementation like this will come in really handy. I'm not really asking for the same key and mouse combinations (although that would be great) but at least another key combination + mouse to roll the camera.

Anonymous · ‎06-26-2017

how do we do this in FUSION 360???

pjreijiri · ‎04-05-2017

Hello, Sometimes while working, whether it was in a sketch, patch or modeling, for some reason a command would take 5 minutes or more to be calculated. And that would affect the rest of the design. The whole assembly becomes very sluggish. For example, I just created a new sketch and projected some geometry into it. Then I tried to offset that geometry and it took literally 5 minutes to create what I thought was a simple rectangle. After looking into it, there was a problem with the bodies being projected. Usually if I continue with this design the rest of the design process becomes very sluggish and every time I want to do a sketch or model a body it will be slow as well. I suggest if it is possible to add a feature that shows every command and how much time/resources/size it is taking. That way we can optimize our assemblies and make it easier for us who don't own a super computer. Also we will be able to recognize more what "ticks" Fusion 360 and makes him mad, just so the next time we would stay friends without any "miscommunication"! Thank you!

Noah_Katz · ‎02-17-2017

Right now if components are too dark you have to adjust their individual appearance

jasonhomrighaus · ‎11-11-2016

Make the Pull down menus in the new contact manager intelligent so that if you are near the bottom of the window, the flip upward instead of down so the list is not cut off. Currently have to scroll list up then reselect the drop down.

Anonymous · ‎11-10-2016

At least in certain joint configurations, dragging a component may cause other components to jump far out in space. If that happens, working on the model may become impossible as at least some display drivers cannot handle geometries with a very wide span of dimensions (e.g. details on millimeter level while model extents span over one kilometer). There should at least be a warning if a component is about to move very far out compared to the rest of the model. In addition as a means to removing problems with outlying components, there could be an easy way of selecting or removing components outside a given distance from the origin.

Anonymous · ‎11-09-2016

At least in certain joint configurations, dragging a component may cause other components to jump far out in space. If that happens, working on the model may become impossible as at least some display drivers cannot handle geometries with a very wide span of dimensions (e.g. details on millimeter level while model extents span over one kilometer). There should at least be a warning if a component is about to move very far out compared to the rest of the model. In addition as a means to removing problems with outlying components, there could be an easy way of selecting or removing components outside a given distance from the origin.

gordonclamp · ‎08-28-2016

I would like to know why equally spaced lines produced via sketch "circular pattern", in my case 8 equally spaced around 360 degrees, cannot be trimmed or extended.

Anonymous · ‎08-23-2016

I use rhino and fusion, and really could complement marvelously. I'm working and regret not being able draw like rhino with grasshopper (3d sketch whitch a parametric essential system) rhino can work together with Tsplines and Nurvs surfaces. You have created a wonderful software and if they a little more support rhino could be perfect 🙂 (Google translator, Sorry)

lmcelroy · ‎08-12-2016

After updating Fusion it appears to auto-zoom while rotating. This is an annoyance and removes control from the user. I'm curious why this was implemented or how to stop it.

Seth789 · ‎05-31-2016

Pull is a nice function to make T splines fit scan data, but it falls short in some cases and I think we need more control. I want to be able to snap 3d sketch entitys to a mesh. Points, lines, splines, etc. effectivaly drawing directly on the scan data as a first step in creating surface models. If there is already way to do this, or something similar, please comment. Thanks

cekuhnen · ‎05-22-2016

Please delete !

tkuechle · ‎04-22-2016

FUSION 360 1. better stitching, or easier way, of imported surface bodies into solids bodies. 2. Sheetmetal tools will be nice to have. 3. Unwrapping solids and surfaces, for laser cutting / water jet cutting. 4. Need to be able to offset surfaces from imported geometry that has been stitched into a solids body, not offset every surface on an imported body that has been stitched into a solids body. 5. Fill holes in imported surface while maintaining border of that surface. 6. Deleting surfaces from unstitched solid should not result in return to solid body, just surfaces erased. The idea is to eliminate unused/unneeded surfaces to reduce browser tree interaction.

gordonclamp · ‎03-04-2016

Allow global switch on and off of joints at the top level

Anonymous · ‎01-14-2016

When editing a feature, I usually can only select one face, profile, ... and have to clock "ok" and re-edit the feature to choose more even though the focus in the edit window is still on the "Profile" selection. For example create a sketch with three rectangles. Stop the sketching and extrude one of those rectangles. Press Ok to finish the extrusion. Now try to edit the just created feature and add the two other rectangles to the extrusion. Fusion360 allows you to select or deselect one, but then only allows you to change the dimension anymore even though the "Profile" selector still has focus (is marked blue in the edit window).

burnandreturn · ‎11-29-2015

I think it might be called the browser but am not sure. After I work on a componet further down the list it is a pain to always have to scroll up through a long list to get back to the top and then have to activate the whole design in order to see everything. A keyboard shortcut to activate the top most item would save a lot of time. Just hit a key and BAM your entire design is activated so you can move on.

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