Fusion 360 IdeaStation (Archived) - Page 4

cekuhnen · ‎04-13-2015

first patch command hides the sketches second patch command does not https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2RV84aUU1SHhrX3M/view?usp=sharing This auto hide function is confusing and 95% in my case results in having to turn back on sketches because I am not done yet hiding all sketches. better would be the ability to in the patch have a hide sketch command to check or a key shortcut that globally can hide/show all sketches

cekuhnen · ‎04-12-2015

a variable surface offset is really needed for many many surfacing tasks what would be sufficient is an offset where along each corner of a patch you can specify the distance and maybe have an interpolation curve inbetween like root linear bell smooth etc transitions. or if possible add a variable offset distance between two ends.

dammitcotezee · ‎04-09-2015

I am tired of slow CAD software. SolidEdge is slow. SolidWorks is slow. Inventor is slow. Onshape is slow. Fushion 360 is extra slow. Why can I play a game with millions of polygons rendered, shaded, and physics simulated all at once but my cad program grinds to a halt when I try to draw a circle. Basically I'm saying I won't accept any excuses for speed. Not when I can shoot imaginary projectiles through imaginary cloth and see imaginary rips, tears and fluttering debris at 60fps and then go to fusion 360 and can't drill ten holes without it thinking real hard about it. I know all the reasons why it's slower. I'm just saying that while they may be true reasons, they aren't good reasons. They can all be worked around. When I can drill three thousand filleted holes wrapped on a curved surface in under thirty seconds the software will be fast enough. Honestly, if this software could do this right now I would toss solidworks in the bin, I would campaign at companies I don't even work for for them to switch. I would shave my head and become a fusion 360 monk, spreading the good news throughout engineering offices everywhere.

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 ...

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

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 · ‎03-24-2015

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

Anonymous · ‎03-22-2015

I don't know if these features were already requested. #01 I'd like to have a switch (in preferences) that hide or maintain the sketch (and plane) visibility after the first modify. Now is auto-hided. #02 In wireframe mode I'd like to display the 3d bodies wires in bold and leave thin the sketches. #03 I need to color the sketches wires with different colors. #04 I'd like to have an option to show the sketch filled or hollow. #05 I'd like to organize bodies in layers and decide if visualize them in shaded, wireframe, layer color, material color, for each individual objects or layer. Now, when you assign a material you see applied a texture. I want to switch on-off this feature through the layers or through the body property without delete the material. In Visual Style we have no option to hide textures. #06 In wireframe mode I'd like to visualize isocurves for bodies (model and patch) and decide how many isocurve to show for each object (very useful working in wireframe mode). #07 I need the selection filters menu to be floating and always visible. #08 Why in help description the circle diameter is called radius? #09 I need to draw circle by radius. #10 I want to draw circles, rectangles, ellipses, polygons around a curve without draw a reference plane. #11 If I want to sketch a 2d shape and the viewport doesn't focus the origin I can't pick the initial construction plane, I have to pan to the origin then pick the virtual construction plane. It's easier to have a dynamic triad planes that follow the cursor when we begin to draw a sketch. #12 I need bi-rail feature, with patch command you can't choose what edge is tangent. #13 I need auto-cap feature. I don't want manually cap each side one by one. I'll select a body and the command will try to fill all missing faces. #15 Stitch-Merge command. I'd like to do this single operation when faces are co-planar in just one click. #16 I want to double click and select the body under the cursor, triple click select all bodies. Now double click select all bodies. Also double click select bodies (patches) also if they are hidden. Again selectable-unselectable has no effect with double click. Definitively this is an issue. #17 For easy migration or continuity with Rhinoceros commands I need to set the RMB to orbit. #18 If I create a Box in Model and then I apply a shell command all faces will get a thickness. This is ok. If I delete the border I will get two patches, the inside and outside part. Fusion360 considers these geometries as one. For me these are two separate patches. If I detach a face Fusion360 should intercept the two components (if there aren't any connections between the two or multiple parts). #19 In Patch mode if I select Mirror I can't select two edges to define the mirror plane and I can't define a temp 2d axe. #20 With the Revolve command we can't define a temp 2d axe or 2 vertices on existing geometry. Also it's impossible to revolve an edge parallel to the XZ plane using a vertical edge (perpendicular to the XZ plane). #21 Delete command doesn't work using the RMB menu in the design area, we have to select the sketch in the Sketches folder then execute the Delete command. Very often the backspace key has no effect. I don't understand what's the fixed rule to delete an entity. #22 Splitting Tools. Is not possible to define a temp axis to define straight cuts #23 Plane Through 3 Points. We can't define a plane selecting the mid points of 3 edges. #24 Purge. We need a command to purge all unused entities.

roambotics_scott · ‎03-16-2015

I'd almost bet I'm missing something because this seems so obvious but I often find myself wanting to do something like taking two perpendicular cross-sections and building a smooth body.. but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that starting with something like this About the best / simplest thing I can do is to split those two cross-sections then loft all around and make a closed body but I have no control over the tangency so I end up with something like which seems very unnatural. Even if I don't play with the handles on a spline loop, I get something much more reasonable [cross sectional comparision] Now I know that I can go through and make a bunch of cross-sections and do traditional lofting but that takes something that feels like it should be doable in 5 minutes and makes a big project of it and it litters the design with construction planes and sketches. It'd be great just to be able to loft using one cross section along the long axis and then the two perpendicular cross sections as rails but when I try that it tells me that the body would intersect itself.

roambotics_scott · ‎03-16-2015

I'd almost bet I'm missing something because this seems so obvious but I often find myself wanting to do something like taking two perpendicular cross-sections and building a smooth body.. but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that starting with something like this About the best / simplest thing I can do is to split those two cross-sections then loft all around and make a closed body but I have no control over the tangency so I end up with something like which seems very unnatural. Even if I don't play with the handles on a spline loop, I get something much more reasonable [cross sectional comparision] Now I know that I can go through and make a bunch of cross-sections and do traditional lofting but that takes something that feels like it should be doable in 5 minutes and makes a big project of it and it litters the design with construction planes and sketches. It'd be great just to be able to loft using one cross section along the long axis and then the two perpendicular cross sections as rails but when I try that it tells me that the body would intersect itself.

bverboort · ‎03-10-2015

Really missing an easy way to change selection filters/modes. As an Inventor User (yup...I said it), I'm really missing Shift+Right-Click as a quick way to toggle/adjust my selection mode. It seems even more important to have an easy way to do this now that I find myself switching and working back-and-fourth between the workspaces. And even more, more, more important since there are so many more entities to filter by!! Very possible I'm missing something. Please tell me I'm missing something. What's the easy way to accomplish this? Maybe a way to capture selection mode "States" that can toggle when you switch workspaces? If there isn't currently an easy method, please add this to the list of requests. Crazy-Making to have to keep traversing the flyout structure for every filter/mode change for every combination in every workspace... Best, Brian

cekuhnen · ‎03-10-2015

Inventor has it - Fusions solid tools are so great we have CNC 3D printing and such and a lip function really is a missing child here so designers can better make functional prototypes with lip generation along parting lines. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketching-sculpting-modeling-and/key-generation-for-parting-lines-for-2-shells/td-p/5532774

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 · ‎02-24-2015

I really miss a 2 path sweep option. Would be very helpful to get this function. Thanks

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.)

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!

bverboort · ‎02-05-2015

I'd like to be able to hide the ribbon (window shutter) similar to the way you can hide the browser and activity feed. If the marking menus and context menus are setup and prioritized like they should be, I should be able to do %90 of my command access in-canvas and not need to clutter screen real estate with the ribbon UI.... (IMHO) Best, Brian

bverboort · ‎02-05-2015

Deja (Stinkin') Vu Is it just me or am I the only one having flashbacks of the days when Inventor was still in its "Rubicon" stage?... Many of my posts from that time could be "CTL-C" ---> "CTL-V" 'd here in the f360 forums... er.. "Idea Station" And many of the Inventor "early days" posts could have been "CTL-C" ---> "CTL-V" 'd from the (even earlier) days of Mechanical Desktop development (yup... I said it... MDT). There must be an easier way. Let's hear from that still small voice in the wilderness that I know must still be there... hidden somewhere in a dark cube inside the Autodesk "SkunkWorks". The ones that have been here (many times) before... the ones that know what we need from this amazing new cloud-based technology!! C'mon boys!! BRING IT!. Your voice counts!!! I encourage you... Implore you!!... Empower you!! LET YOURSELVES BE HEARD!! Don't be afraid. Your "Street Cred" might be a bit dusty, gray, balding, beer bellied... But it still counts for something. Work with this new breed, with these crazy kids and their (amazingly valuable) wacky ideas! Their “Insane” ideas... Temper it, embrace it! Fire this f360 thing up with some Old Skool (dare I say "OG"?) knowledge and flare!! Get loud!... Go out on a limb. Press for what you _know_ is needed. Spend some of that political capital... What are you saving it for anyway!! Time's a wastin! Best, Brian

Anonymous · ‎01-26-2015

It would be nice to be able to choose a direction when you are extending a surface, natural extention is not always the way that the surface is needed.

cekuhnen · ‎01-15-2015

The surface patch in Fusion cannot deal with this shape and close it - makes sense. But the Loft tool (essencially sweep two rail like in Alias) only has G0 to G2 settings for the profile but not the rail egde which can be sampled from a surface! it is more or less a crucial ability to make the rails also G0 to G2 for complex surfacing tasks.

cekuhnen · ‎01-14-2015

I think I brought this one up around a year ago so. Fusion's workflow is somewhat slower than Alias because each time I use loft all settings are back to the basic and I have to click myself through the dialogs again and again. thats quite repetative and time consuming. Couldn't you code it the way that previews setting selections will be memorized? Alias does that.

cekuhnen · ‎01-12-2015

I do not think that it is smart to force a user to click a sketch curve to turn on the curvature comb but use the instecption tool comb for surface edges. I think this is onconsistent and adds clutter to the UI and confusion to the user.

cekuhnen · ‎01-12-2015

Fusion can only show the comb on a surface edge but not inside / on a surface. In Alias I just use the dynamic comb tool and can adjust orientation amount and spacing of curvature combs.

laughingcreek · ‎01-03-2015

"Replace face" requires that the surface being used extend past the edges of the face being replaced, which can make it difficult to control the edges of the resulting object. "Split body" has the option of extending the boundaries of the splitting surface. I would like an option to have "replace face" behave this way also. That way, a surface with a boundary that is very close to the same shape as the face being replaced would work without having to pull the edges out a little extra to make sure they extend past the the edges of the face.

laughingcreek · ‎01-02-2015

When stitching 2 or more surfaces together, have the resulting feature retain the name of the first surface selected, instead of a whole new generic name unrelated to the orginal names.

Anonymous · ‎12-29-2014

Hi guys 🙂 I just wanted to share something that apeared during work. While using split face in Patch environment, before committing the split, it appeared like there are overlaping surfaces on the object's face. the first screencapture shows it. After committing the split face everything was back to normal.

cekuhnen · ‎12-19-2014

as you can see LMB is great to select what is under your courser. But the problem is the vertex points as well as edges are highlighted but I do not know to which object (here the two cubes) each belongs to. Thus I think it would be beneficial if Fusion can highlight the object I would select an element from

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!

cekuhnen · ‎11-05-2014

it seems to me Fusion has no extend backwards ability / pretty needed often in alias extend just works both directions and the the sketch engine also needs an extend function!

cekuhnen · ‎11-05-2014

Fusion has no untrim. a pretty important tool to remove holes. I do not weant to use patch to fill it because Fusion patch I cannot controll. like in the image below untrim and the orinignal surface is back without the rectangular hole.

cekuhnen · ‎11-05-2014

where Alias simply offsets (shells) Fusion simply gives up. I would have rather expetced a solid modeler doing it better. the insides shell was done in alias an imported this seems to me that like with other tools (like loft) the surfacing commands in Fusion often fell pretty short compared to what I can do in Alias. I have less controll less design ability and like in this case it even fails to work.

Anonymous · ‎10-30-2014

I use Fusion 360 mostly for jewelry design. The biggest missing creative capability with Fusion 360 for me is global defomations: The ability to take an arbitrary model (or volume of space) and deform it, for example using an FFD cage, or other deformer models (twist and bend probably the most important alternatives). I use another software package that allows me to do this with arbitrary models (solids and surface models), and it is incredibly useful: Many shapes I create are much easier to model un-deformed, and then deformed as a whole. Key to this is globabl deformation of an entire model hierarchy, not just of individual parts.

cekuhnen · ‎10-24-2014

I fill like having hand cuffs on my hands when I cannot edit the spline and surface CVs. So could you add them? They are kinda a standard modeling tool in nearly well everthing I work with 😉 Forcing a designer to only rely on creating surfaces through curves is a bad idea specifically when first Fusion has no good or comparable 3D sketching ability like Rhino / Alias and second also in Alias I can use those surface generationt tools (skin patch rail etc.) sometimes to only get a basic shape and then I need to sculpt the rest by hand.

nkloski · ‎10-09-2014

Wow...creating and then editing offset planes seems to be harder than it should be when dealing with non-planar BRep bodies. My suggestion: When one says "create an offset plane" and clicks on a non-planar BRep face, do some averaging or some other magic to create a plane that is at a "similar" angle to the face...or maybe along the averaged normals of that face within a set distance/diameter or something. Right now, I can't even click on the face at all. I see you have dynamically updating planes from the "plane along path" command...it would be awesome to click-drag my mouse along a BRep face and see a constantly tilting offset plane changing around, and then allow me to settle on one I like. Thanks!

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.

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.

cekuhnen · ‎08-25-2014

When I add a base feature in the Timeline and create a revolve based on a surface or sketch Fusion adds a revolve feature into the browser. However this feature is useless because it basically does not allow me to edit the revolve freature information such as edge profile or revolve degree. If this is not intended, then I would go ahead and not even include the feature into the browser and just give me a solid geometry created by the revolve feature. I think for myself but also specifically for new users this is an inconcistent and confusing behavior inside Fusion and should be addressed. While the Timeline is parametric I think the DM should be the same for base features because this way you can also thinout the commands in the timeline and break up your workflow into desinging the base features and designing how the base feature elements interact with each other. DM Base Feature in Timeline: Revolve Feature in Timeline: Each revolve would add another entry into the timeline bloating it up. I would rather prefer those tasks to be inside the DM / Base feature

Anonymous · ‎08-20-2014

It would be nice to be able to create parameters without specifically opening the tool. Example: While creating a rectangle in a sketch, you decide that you want to create a named parameter, and then assign it to the rectangle. Rather than opening the "Change parameters" tool, you could simply input into the box "myRectangleDim=.1in" and then the rectangle would be dimensioned with the parameter "myRectangleDim" and a parameter named "myRectangleDim" would be created with value of .1in.

AvihooI · ‎08-04-2014

Please allow a "rotational" iteration in the extrude and sweep tools so that along an axial iteration the face that is iterated upon will also rotate given a certain "twist-rate" or "angle per distance" value. This operation will allow the creation of many useful shapes that would otherwise be impossible or difficult to make.

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 · ‎07-26-2014

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

in Alias if you have a grid of lines overlaping but including a shape the surface tool will understand it and just only select parts of curves that will make up the edges of a surface tool. for example this sketch has 2 short edges and one long unsplit edge for the loft tool like dont select chain I would like to see spline at 2 being brokend by arc 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2NjlCbEtLMDRuVzA/edit?usp=sharing For example if you see this video at 22:17 you see that longer curves are selected but the surface tool only uses edges that make sense for the surface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YsPRtenDrU

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.

cekuhnen · ‎07-23-2014

both should at least be accessible by the same way: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2cnMtbjBZTTZicTg/edit?usp=sharing

cekuhnen · ‎06-08-2014

it would be great if I could select the body in the browser and Fusion would select all faces at once. Currently it seems I have to click each face I want to split by hand which is time consuming.

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.

cekuhnen · ‎05-26-2014

I am not sure if maybe the idea / plan is to bring many DM patch tools into the design time line but I find it confusing to have featrues in DM when they dont really do much, or for example when I extrude from a sketch adjusting the sketch will not affect the extrude DM patch command. Below I started to build parts in DM via the insert base feature. And when I change a base feature sketch nothing really changes, I also cannot delete the mesh and and re extrude from the sketch. The timeline will break the tool assosications. Of course if the goal is to have such DM in the design timeline than this idea here is obsolete.

cekuhnen · ‎05-23-2014

Fusion should also allow you to export directly from Brep or TS into OBJ. Reasons: Faster workflow. Currently I need to convert TS to BRep to Mesh to export - way to much to do. Flexebility / compatiblity: TS in Fusion is somewhat less powerful than Modo/Blender but the beauty is to have both to work with (start in Fusion push to Modo/Blender for detailed work, bring back into TS Fusion) Exporting TS models into OBJ is also superior for rendering because Blender/Modo can use OBJ and subdiv to generate matching render models without meshing / heavily tesselating Breps!!!

cekuhnen · ‎05-23-2014

Fusions OBJ export only supports tries making it look more like an STL export. For rendering this produces heavy meshes. compare this with MOI which meshes with NGONs

cekuhnen · ‎05-16-2014

Too many commands are scattered all over the interface and follow not logic. The convert button should always present you the option to convert Mesh to TS Mesh to BRep I really do not want to have to switch to the Patch mode just to be able to convert mesh to TS. Convert in Patch mode turns Mesh into TS, why makes no sense, I am in Patch mode. Convert in Sculpt mode turns Mesh into TS, makes sense I am in Sculpt Mode. So If I click on a mesh in Browser or RMB click on a mesh in the 3D view should also be the same options to convert. Currently only Patch main menu gives me the option to convert Mesh to Brep. RMB in Browser only gives me Convert to TS option. Convert should also include BRep to Mesh, when I select a BRep surface.

cekuhnen · ‎05-15-2014

and not only a solid result - all I want are the side shells and no caps. this is just a solid revovle tool here.

cekuhnen · ‎05-15-2014

In Rhino I select all outher edges, select the revolve axis and done. In Fusion I would have to select face by face. That is way to slow and time consuming. This should apply to solid as well as patch tools that use profiles, besides loft of course.

jeff_strater · ‎05-13-2014

This post is seeking user feedback to help the Fusion team set some priorities. We know that the "Capture Design History (Parametric Design)" environment is not complete. Some commands/features that are available in a "Direct Modeling" design are not yet available when capturing history in the Timeline. We are working very hard to get them all done as soon as we can. But, we need some help in determining what order to implement these. So, if you have a chance, please go fill out the survey here: Parametric Feature Priorities, and help us set some priorities. Thanks for your time! Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

cekuhnen · ‎05-08-2014

It would be great in case Fusion allows me to select closed planar curves/edges and patch them all at once. I have here only 6 objects and need to apply patch 12 times. In other layers I have more and the click time is very labor consuming.

cekuhnen · ‎03-24-2014

Hi Folks, It seems to me Fusion lacks a lot in the ara of snapping and it also seems not to feature a rotate function for curves/sketches. This is reallty an extreme downside for me when I work in deisgn and need to be able to snap or rotate. Attached is a quick video showing Rhino. You can quite clearly see how fast this workflow is and what snapping targets I use. Rhino https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2SmRxTks1Nnh5SEU/edit?usp=sharing Fusion https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2SmRxTks1Nnh5SEU/edit?usp=sharing It looks like only in DM can you move scale and also Rotate an object. It seems also not to be possible to scale a sketch? Why is that so? Being such basic functions I am actually surprised this is not part of the Fusion modeling and sketch engine. What would be the point of 3D sketching without the ability to rotate or scale a curve?

cekuhnen · ‎03-11-2014

It looks like Fusion has problems with NGONs a lot. This is a pretty simple model, a cylinder like shape with an NGON cap. It seems that I need to further create a planar insert geometry to stabalize the surface flow and then cap the opening. Otherwise Fusion works quite a long time on the OBJ to TS conversion and procuses also bad geometry. Here are the Fusion results: NGON is filled with crazy subdivisions and turned into triangles I would need to remove the edges to rebuild the ngon you dont want to have to open the file and patch in a filler.

cekuhnen · ‎03-10-2014

Fusion only has a fillet radius but it should have also a fillet chord. chord really maintains the shape while you see that the Fusion model has a change in fillet width.

cekuhnen · ‎03-07-2014

Here is a design where I would like to use sweep along two profiles (blue) and use the white lines as start and end points! PS: Loft here does not allow me to skin between the two surfaces and if I select edges to left only Fusion crashes.

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 · ‎03-03-2014

It happens so often that when I want to move a shell the move orientation is always sampled from a surface normal. And to move the object left right I need to re-orientate the 3D widget. Would it be possible to have a global orientation on by default and if desired also local meaning when the object got rotated the 3d widget is rotated as well. In Blender you have such options at hand including also scale rotation move etc values for the object (like Alias) which can be very helpful to have as well.

cekuhnen · ‎03-01-2014

It would be nice if I could just trim a body with a surface without having to explode the body so I can do a patch on patch trim task!

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.

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

cekuhnen · ‎02-25-2014

I think the design timeline is a great idea as an object mixer however it seems maybe inconsitent in the way how it treats base feature and objects created directly inside the design time line. For example it seems while you can apply features to base features a translation like scale/move does not affect such features afterwards. This is confusing and not very productive. Idealy if I add a base feature and apply commands they should work the same way as if I create objects right inside the design time line. Here is a screencast showing you the problem and illogical approach from a end user's perspective: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2bWRReG9TUjN3Mjg/edit?usp=sharing

cekuhnen · ‎02-20-2014

Since the new timeline you do not have access to the patch mode like before. This makes it very complicated to work with surfaces in Fusion which is not really ideal at all. In the screenshot you see three surfaces. The Modify menu has a split surface tool, which works but there is no join poly surfaces and in this model for example splitting the vertical back face is not possible in Fusion. This is really a must have function folks. Here is the Rhino video and how it works there: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2Rld2M3ZnTmVfZ2s/edit?usp=sharing here is the fusion video and my attempt: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2V0ZGU2xWeVYyOGs/edit?usp=sharing

cekuhnen · ‎02-20-2014

Hi folks, when I select a TS object in the time line and enter edit mode the OBJ mesh is always visible. If I turn it off, leave edit mode and come back into edit mode it is visible again. It would be great when I turn it off it will remain hidden. Also in the video you can see also the object browser can get confused with what to show and keep hidden. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2bXBBd25TV3pFWDg/edit?usp=sharing And here you can see when I move an object which is hidden the result of a different operation (split surface) becomes visible and I have to hide it again. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2UEIwY05Zd1pTNHM/edit?usp=sharing

cekuhnen · ‎01-23-2014

Hi Folks here is another video showing how you can extract edges from surfaces in Rhino and continue working with it. The video is based on the application of the curve network command but shows a lot of curve workflow. Having a timeline now in Fusion I wish there would be a way to make surfaces update as well when curves are changed. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2T1NyNW4zRVF3ZDA/edit?usp=sharing

cekuhnen · ‎01-23-2014

Hi folks, here is a quick screencast showing you how the curve network command in Rhino works. Fusion sometimes taps into the same direction like with the loft command but there is a lot more to curve network specifically when you work with complex curve layouts. I hope the video explains itself well: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2ZUNqSzh0QnU2RTg/edit?usp=sharing

Anonymous · ‎12-28-2013

I understand that importing geometry is a popular request. I also understand that the status is now "Implemented" Still I have to ask where is the add or Import button? Here are some thoughts and observations on the subject: Drag and Drop in the Dashboard Note when I tried the drag and drop function it works for the initial establishment of a file but when I tried to add a surface into an existing file I get a crash document. Drag and drop should work while the file is open as the workflow needs to accommodate all potential outside geometries. Import button The default should be to all available file types with easy filter for type. It would be awesome to be able to parametrically connect imported bodies to a folder where as if the imported body is developed further by other when the FUSION files is opened it re-imports this updated / changed file.

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

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

lure23 · ‎08-28-2013

Keeping things simple for the end user has multiple benefits. It lessens the learning curve for a product. It reduces the amount of documentation needed (to be maintained). Here is one corner of Fusion 360 where I think the current approach is sub-optimal, and reduction in the UI actually would make for a better product. There are more. No need for creating as 'New Component' Currently, all the creation dialogs offer the choice for either 'New Body' (the default) or 'New Component'. This is unnecessary - the concept of 'component' in Fusion 360 is closer to that of a group, or a folder. It's a matter of organizing your bodies and other elements. The current 'New Component' feature actually means "New Body within a New Component". The current option is misleading (I thought for long that bodies somehow got converted to components, instead that they are placed within components, which is the truth). Also, this feature is not even needed. In real workflow, one creates empty components (collections, hierarchies) before starting to fill them with bodies. Or creates bodies and then moves them into a component. The option may go. No need for create as 'Join', 'Cut', 'Intersect' either? This is a bit more a matter of taste, maybe. Personally, I don't remember ever having used the 'operation' features when creating solid bodies. What I have done is created bodies and then used those bodies in the above mentioned operations, separately. This has to do with mentality and mindset of a program. Does it offer you "everything you might want" at every stage, or clear, easy to learn workflows that you need to connect in order to get what you want. Personally, I favor the latter. One of the reasons is that however good designers are, it's difficult to guess/know which "shortcuts" are really essential for a wide audience. Placing everything that "seems like a good idea" on our face makes the program harder to learn. So… I suggest cutting the whole 'Operation' option from all 'create' dialogs, and always going for a new body in the active component. This may sound like unimportant, but keeping a software product slender and easily approachable requires constant trimming. For every feature, there must be a justified reason for its existence. Otherwise, software turns into unmaintainable and hard-to-use bloat. What do you others think? Ever use the options other than 'New Body'? Versions:Fusion 360 1.8.604, OS X 10.8.4

cekuhnen · ‎08-23-2013

I can only find sweep loft and basic revolve but no Birail which would be very useful for shapes hands hold.

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 😉

cekuhnen · ‎08-23-2013

It would be a great help if besides cutting multiple parts at onces also selecting more than object at once being the cutting tools. If I select the surface I can trim both red objects at once with shift selecting everything to trim But it seems I cannot select more than two objects at once being the cutting tool to trim with both the encloused areas of the arrow heads.

cekuhnen · ‎08-19-2013

It would be great if Fusion could project a curve / sketch onto a surface.

Anonymous · ‎08-13-2013

A simple way to expose all design functions to a scripting language (I like Ruby myself, but Python or any other would do). I find that there are lots of things that I do that are detailed, repetitive, and seem like they could easily be automated. Would be very cool if there were a simple way to add new features and exchange them with other users on the team or in the community.

Anonymous · ‎06-18-2013

It's quite a time saver to be able to drag a selection fence over an entire plane of geometry and delete without having to orbit and delete for each plane. The ability to control when this occurs via a simple toggle (either via a checkbox in the preferences, a keyboard shortcut or even a momentary hotkey) would mesh nicely with my typical workflow.

cekuhnen · ‎03-31-2013

In Rhino I can select multimple curves hit loft select straight sections and the end result is a polysurface with linear lofts. In Fusion I have to select profile 1 and 2 and loft. Then I have to select profile 2 and 3 and loft. This is double the work. Specifically when I have 6, 12 or more profiles for creating a complex linear geometry this is a lot of extra work.

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.

cekuhnen · ‎03-29-2013

It seems that currently when you select edges to round you cannot add custom values for different edges and also custom values along a certain edge like a wider radius at the midpoint, a smaller radius at the end of the edge. Would be nide to have this.

cekuhnen · ‎03-29-2013

Having only the ability to sketch in 2D seems to me very restrictive, or do I miss the ability to do this in Fusion360?

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