Fusion 360 IdeaStation (Archived) - Page 2

pludikar · ‎02-16-2017

I currently have a sketch where 3 projection points have failed, and I have no clue where they are located. There are probably 50 reference points in the sketch and having the error highlighted in yellow doesn't help. It seems that the points have either been obscured by other points, or they are missing altogether. Navigating to each potential location, and checking if the error is there, is a huge time consumer. The error messages are of no help. For example - Where is "Project22"? Presently there is no way to even relate a specific name to a feature. I suggest 1 of two alternatives. 1 - double click the failure in the warning dialog to effect a zoom into the offending location or 2 - add errors as a visible object feature, and allow error visibility to be selected It's clear that F360 has the information about the error location - it just doesn't presently make it available. Regards Peter

523Industries · ‎01-03-2017

It would be useful, and eliminate an extra step, in allowing a sketch offset to be bi-direction as it is in SolidWorks (see attached pictures) for extrusions and other features.

Anonymous · ‎02-06-2017

I don't get it, why are some very useful T-spline tools withheld from Fusion360? All of the tools shown below, are present in Speedform (which for some reason has no Education license) but are abscent from Fusion360 [Enlarge image]

Anonymous · ‎05-05-2016

It would be nice to directly import Adobe Illustrator files.

robduarte · ‎06-12-2016

It would be really helpful to be able to organize user parameters - specifically, to be able to create folders/categories to contain them. Once you have a long list of parameters, it's hard to deal with (although the autocomplete has done wonders to help). At a minimum, being able to reorder the list would be helpful. Both would be ideal.

Anonymous · ‎10-20-2015

A simple toggle in the measure tool to switch between metric and imperial units without having to exit and change the document settings, or have both displayed simultaneously. That would be great because when you change them in the document settings it closes the measure window, and you lose any measurements that you made.

huszak.marcell · ‎01-30-2018

Hi there, For presentation purposes, I think it would be awesome if we could give dimensions to isometric view drawings in the drawing workspace. I found this idea (in a little bit different way) at the forums of Fusion 360 and I tought I must bring it here.

sean.cusack · ‎01-23-2015

There should be a way to delay updating Fusion 360, or at least be able to run an outdated version when required. Currently, if there is a new update available, Fusion users are only given the option to "update now" or "quit". This makes the program nearly unusable if you are onsite with a client, and trying to show him or her your design since you are now completely locked out of the program until you find a wifi connection and wait for the massive update file to be downloaded and installed.

Anonymous · ‎07-24-2015

It is not that I don't trust the Cloud storage but I will like to be able to download the Designs I create in Fusion. Here is what I have in mind: Select the Project Folder-> Right Click-> and Download All the Files on that folder. As of today, that can not be done. -Jose

Anonymous · ‎08-05-2016

1) Add back button to browser window. Occasionally I am searching for the component I need and it would be handy to have a back button. 2) Please don't automatically close the window after I insert the CAD file. Typically I want to get more components from the same page. Currently when I insert....the mini browser window closes. When relaunched it defaults to the McMaster Carr home page. It might be better to just notify us the component was inserted but keep the window open. Thanks

Anonymous · ‎07-10-2015

I'm going to give this living hinges thing idea one more go because it just got archived. As a designer who regularly has to single piece objects with "living hinges" - thin plastic part between a box lid and bottom for example - it would be very helpful if the there was the ability to model this and have it function as a joint. Right now it is simply not possible to go from design to mold with a testable closing box. This is a big part of desinging most things plastic injection molded. This would also be highly useful for modling things like cips that fasten things close etc. Last time this got archived after 8 votes. I don't know how many it takes to rate implementation but I really hope this time it makes it.

MarqueIV · ‎12-01-2015

When editing a dimension, you can enter in a known value, a formula, a parameter or any combination of the above. However, if you want to create a new parameter, you have to go to the parameters window, add it there, then go back and use it in your sketch. My suggestion is to instead allow the user to type something like 'CornerRadius=4' instead of just '4', which will create a new user-defined parameter called 'CornerRadius', set it's value to 4, then set that particular dimension equal to 'CornerRadius' We'd have all the benefits of user-defined parameters without the need to visit the Parameters dialog making parameter-driven sketching much faster and more intuitive. An additional/alternate way to implement this would be when you select the dropdown to pick from existing dimensions, add a textbox where you specify a new parameter name. If you enter one, then it creates it and associates whatever you have typed/selected for the regular value to it, again setting the final dimension to your variable.

Anonymous · ‎07-21-2017

Hello everyone, just an idea here. Can butt welding (or any other kind of welding) be implemented in Fusion 360? I'm designing some pipes and flanges that should be presented as welded and found out that it couldn't be made. It would also help to have it for simulation purposes but at least for rendering. Can it be done? What I'm designing (in real life) looks like the following: When I asked in the Fusion 360 forum, found out that I'm not alone on this. Maybe it helps more people? Thanks in advance!

Anonymous · ‎01-03-2016

Having the user parameters as a "Primary" window really limits is functionality. I want to be able to dock it into the interface and leave it up as I'm working with a model. This would allow users to quickly see the parameters they have and quickly change them (providing workarounds to a few of the requests listed below). Right now, I literally work with temporary screenshots of my parameters window (not kidding!) when I have too many to remember all of them. It appears that, in general, users are requesting a lot of UI enhancements here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/organise-parameter-window/idi-p/5693345 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/change-parameter-units/idi-p/5812171 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/autofill-parameter-names/idi-p/5818830 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/user-parameters-show-quick-link-to-user-created-parameters/idi-p/5866773 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/parameters-preview/idi-p/5841550

threadbuilt · ‎02-10-2016

After seeing what you guys managed to do with wood I'd love it if you could make a simple (or complex if you wish) Printed Circuit Board material/appearance. So that it could be used to better indicate a typical or nominal circuit board without going into too much detail and downloading models or drawing something to give that effect. Keep up the good work on this front.

russtuff · ‎03-31-2015

I ran into this problem, where I imported a file created in another program, and I needed to scale it to a specific dimension. For instance, the drawing was something like 2.64" tall (y-axis) and I needed it to be 4" tall. It is a complex 2d sketch, which I prefer not to recreate. There is a scale by factor tool already, and this is currently the only option for changing the size of my sketch. I have to calculate the scale factor (4/2.64 = 1.5151) which got me to 4.001" (close enough for this drawing). A more elgegant solution would be the option to scale the drawing right to 4" in height, and of course the width would scale proportionately. Additionally, being able to scale the width and have the height scale proportionately would also be nice. If you are wondering, I also tried to scale this sketch by setting a dimension between the lowest Y-axis point and the highest Y-axis point, but received an error that the sketch was over-defined. If you would like to see a screenshot of the sketch in question, please refer to this thread: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketching-sculpting-modeling-and/scale-to-an-exact-dimension/td-p/5562771

Anonymous · ‎01-12-2015

I find that if I am in sketch mode doing a complex layout / planning sketch, the dimensions crowd up the screen and obscure the sketch. It would be nice to be able to toggle the dimension visibility on and off while sketching. When off, I should still be able to add new dimensions and the new dimension should remain visible until it has been finalized.

scott.mayson · ‎03-24-2017

Fusion360 really needs Industrial Design tools for "Plastic Part" design as per Inventor 2017. this is am must have and as important as sheet metal.

Anonymous · ‎05-26-2016

Generating a toolpath (especially in 3D) often results in some small, unwanted toolmoves. In HSMWorks you have an option to trim the toolpath in order to remove this areas from the toolpath. This is much quicker than modifying the parameters several times, hoping the tool moves only where you want it to move. It would be great if this feature find its way into Fusion360. Thanks Andreas

cekuhnen · ‎08-04-2016

line tangent arc spline works line perpendicular to arc spline does not face palm 😉

roambotics_scott · ‎03-24-2016

I've seen a few other people touch on this but it's really pissing me off and deserves its own idea. Automagically adjusting the view is great if you get it right. The problem is that about 99.9% of the time in F360, when the view is magically adjusted, the app gets it wrong. That means every time I start working on a sketch, it pans what I'm trying to work on out of the center and sets the zoom to an absurdly wrong level. Knock that off !!! This is particularly awful because 3D navigation in F360 is a huge PITA but automatic stuff is terribly frustrating and annoying when it's done badly. At the very least (please do more than this but at a minimum) there should be a quick / almost effortless way to jump back / undo the automagic view shifting. Better still, just say no - don't do it unless you really, really know that's what the user wants.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎02-21-2018

Is it possible to add a feature that automatically does the dimensioning in the drawing mode? this feature is already in inventor and Autocad. I am not sure if what I said explains what I have in my mind. so if there are any question please ask. This feature will make work so much faster. I hope it is added to fusion fast.

Anonymous · ‎03-24-2016

Hi guys, I was wondering if for future releases you could add another testing feature for more automotive/aerodynamic forms where we could simulate a wind tunnel type scenario to see how smoothly our design travels through the air and adjust the design accordingly. This would be another super helpful feature for product refinement. Thanks, -Ben

M-Russmann · ‎05-19-2017

Hi, I need the posibility to place the surface symbols anywhere on the drawing without the need to select a element. This is required to make drawings like this: Actually the only way to do this is to make a template in a seperate CAD Software and import this in Fusion 360. This kind of placing the surface symbols is pretty much standard in Europe and is teached during education (bottom right). It would be fine if we do not need to go the long way with making a template in a seperate CAD System for each drawing.

Macki2000 · ‎06-23-2017

1. I would like to have the normal view button at the ViewCube. I think this is the right place for it. 2. And it should have both functionality (as outside a sketch and as inside a sketch, accordingly what you are doing at this moment). 3. Additional funktion: First click will bring the view into normal view to the plane. And next click (if you have not changed/moved the view) will bring the view to anti-normal view, and next click back to normal, and so on. Hope this is comprehensible. Markus

Anonymous · ‎08-06-2014

The measure tool should support measuring multiple lines/features at once. In my use case I have a bunch of discrete but connected lines in a circle. I want to be able to select all the lines and their vertice with a box selector, click measure, and see their combined length. As a hack: The only thing I have found is to redraw the circle using a spline and then measure that, but that is very time consuming as my circle is composed of 80+ points. It would be much better if you could select a bunch of lines and it would show you the length of the perimeter.

roambotics_scott · ‎09-16-2015

Very often I want to mirror something in a sketch off of the center line based on the global origin / axes. Currently I have to add an extra stray line to the sketch. Instead, we should just be able to use the origin axes (preferably without having to select and show them)

Anonymous · ‎10-05-2017

I would like to have the option to select how ordinate dimensions are laid out. I would like x and y together on one side of the part. (see attached .pdf) When I use a milling machine with a digital readout it simply shows the x and y coordinates. I don't like to have to search all over my sketch for the x coordinate, which is on one side of the part, and the y coordinate which is somewhere on the other side of the part. I would much prefer to have them together in one dimension label. Back in the old days (1986) I used to run a program that did it this way and I found it was much easier and there was less chance for me to select the wrong dimension by mistake. Thanks. Hope others agree 🙂

LibertyMachine · ‎03-10-2016

I'd like to propose adding the chamfer option to skethcing. I see that we have the ability to add fillets, so I started looking for a way to chamfer a sketch, and found nothing. This has multiple uses, other than small little corner edge breaks. If you need to draw a corner that has a large angle on it, this tool would be able to do that. Chamfers are not always small edge breaks.... If the concern is "adding one more button" perhaps make a modifier, so if ALT (or some other key) is pressed, pressing Fillet will allow it to chamfer. Chamfer should have the option of specifying angle as well as length of angle, length of hypotenuse, etc

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2015

If you start a sketch but exit it immediately (i.e. with no sketch entities), that sketch should be automatically deleted, Just like if you start a Create [e.g. a box] command but then exit it. Same with a sculpted form. Instead they show up on the timeline and have to be deleted manually. Does anyone want an empty sketch or form as a placeholder?

innovatenate · ‎10-22-2015

I would like to have the ability to Pattern a Pattern in a Fusion 360 sketch environment. When creating a pattern the user is prompted to select "Objects." I would like to be able to select the sketch pattern as an object to pattern. The benefit is to enable better parametric updates for nested sketch patterns. Reference below discussion for further context. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-and-documentation/fusion-don-t-rebuild-patterns-after-editing-bad-editing-patterns/m-p/5874153#M36231

j.cavender · ‎01-05-2016

there needs to be a plunge milling toolpath the metal removal rate of some of the plunge mills on the market is ridiculously high and i would like to be able to utilize this using fusion.

TrippyLighting · ‎08-07-2016

The current tools available to add edge loops to T-Splines are are limited to the point of being useless. Just trying to add edge loops to a simple not subdivided 6-sided cube in Fusion 360 is a hassle. The animated gif below show how blazingly fast this can be done in Blender by using the key-combo Ctrl-R and scrolling the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the number of edge loops :

mroek · ‎02-02-2017

I'd like to have a normal constraint that can be applied between a line and a curve, to make said line normal to the curve at the point of coincidence. In current versions one has to do a rather clumsy workaround for this, where you first have to add a construction line that is tangent to the curve, and then set your line perpendicular to this construction line. Should be fairly easy to add, I'd think, as all the maths necessary is already there.

Anonymous · ‎03-14-2017

It would be nice to make a broken out section view from a sketch.

benoitD336P · ‎11-23-2016

Right now I have to calculate manually the number of instances I need to fit in my total angle. When I design my first feature I know from it what's the angle it represent but I don't necessarily know the total angle and number of repetitions I need for the the features to fit together. You can see in my picture I did my first rib in the center of this case and then patterned it but I had to fiddle a while around to find the total angle and then calculate the number of them I needed. It would be good to add the option to input the angle between feature and number of instances like you can do in many other software.

Anonymous · ‎11-11-2015

At some point in the summer, it seemed like Fusion did take a step forward for 4k monitor support, including the splash screen now showing a single image/tile where it used to tile the startup screen all across the monitor if memory serves. However, the biggest problem with Fusion on a Windows machine with a 4k monitor is that the browser panel and most of the small window panels that pop up for various functions are too narrow for the size of the font necessary to read text on a 4k monitor. It would be great if we could grab the side of the windows and stretch them to the appropriate width or length, and have Fusion remember the way each one is set up without having to repeat the process again later. There are some functions that I can't read at all as it sits right now. I've attached one of the easiest examples to access, but it applies to many other panels as well. There are even times when it's hard to access a needed button, which as you can see was a close call on this window:

Anonymous · ‎10-17-2016

Being able to save CAM simulations as a body would: Allow users to quickly check dimensions of remaining stock and therefore tool path clearance, without modeling the fixture This would be particularly useful for low production volume parts. For example, the clearance of a workstop that protrudes .250 inches from the face of a vise jaw could be checked against the remaining stock after a 2D contour with tabs strategy has been used. Create a quick way to model stock for multiple setup parts Fixturing for the remaining operation(s) could be designed more efficiently. Allow more accurate representations of the final part without extra modeling Features such as fillets and chamfers would be generated based on tooling limitations, and would therefore be more accurate. This could lead to more accurate part drawings in assemblies and renderings.

Gokhan_Kaya · ‎04-23-2016

Hi we wish to draw tangent arc connect Two circle or arc

mbostonsprint · ‎04-04-2016

I did some searching for this topic, and found some mention of this from some time back, but nothing current. I would find it extremely useful to have the ability to create a construction plane that is normal to a construction axis, with a menu command. I find that I can create a point on a plane where a construction axis intersects, and that is very useful, but I would like the ability to create a work plane that is square to a construction axis, in the absence of other geometry to easily work from. In my case(s) of late, there is no orthogonal relationship to the origins of the rest of the design. The default operation I think could be: -select "Plane Perpendicular to Axis" -pick the axis -enter and a work plane appears at the end of the axis closest to the selection point. A very useful extension would be to select a point on the axis at which the plane will be generated, but sometimes there is no point pre-existing, and I do not know of any ability to place a point on a construction axis in the absence of other geometry. That would also be highly useful, but requires another posting, I suspect.

Anonymous · ‎05-19-2016

In solid works I am able to use weldments and cutlists which is handy for sheet metal and wood as well as other things. Seeing as there is "Fast Track" and direct comparison for Solid Works, how come Fusion 360 lacks this? I would like to be able to create a part and carry along its dimensional features into an assembly and drawings so I can create adequate BOMs and cutlists for the same assembly.

hoh0003VA6MC · ‎12-01-2016

Currently you can only create a spiral along a straight line, it would be extremely useful to allow you to use a curved path, such as to make a spiral cord. This is a feature SolidWorks has but Fusion seems to lack.

Robert_Allport · ‎03-08-2017

All, Would like to submit an idea for a better User Interface for Cam templates. First I want to say that Cam Templates are great !!!... However with that being said "How to Store, Manage and Retrieve them" needs some improvement. Below is a picture of how this possible could be done. Hopefully the "picture and text" will give you a good idea of how it could work. The "Circled Numbers" show the steps that the user would take to "Import" Template(s) they want to use. The "Circled Letters" are brief description/notes to what needs to happen. Also it would be great if we could also do minor editing. At least, Renaming Templates, Deleting Templates from the interface.

Willa1980 · ‎02-13-2015

Fusion360 is also aimed at amateurs that like to design and 3D print, correct? One of the important things to consider during 3D printing is the minimum wall thickness. Shapeways has some very neat online checks and tools to check the files. However, these tools can only be used after exporting and uploading your 3D model to the Shapeways website. Therefore, I think it would be awesome if Fusion would have a wall thickness checking feature. The user should be prompted to set a minimum wall thickness (ideally seperate values for supported and non-supported walls), and Fusion highlights problematic areas. Image: Shapeways wall thickness tool. Safe areas are green, problematic areas are orange.

Pedro_Bidarra · ‎04-02-2016

Right now, drawings exported as DWG can only be edited in the latest version of AutoCAD, in order to be opened in other apps that support DWG they have to be converted, an option is to use DWG TrueView, but that requires an extra step and it's only available on Windows. The problem with the generated DWGs is that they use viewports and proxy graphics/objects/elements. I think it would be useful to have a dialog for this export function, with teh following options: * Choose the DWG version * remove/explode proxy objects (this would convert proxy objects to regular elements like lines and arcs that can be manipulated) * Export as a simple 2D drawing in Model Space

tallisb · ‎06-26-2017

Hello- I think it would be great if we could capture visibility of parts/components in a named view. Here's an example... You design a whole car in Fusion 360. You then create named views that allow you to "focus" on key areas of your design, such as "Engine" "Trunk" "Dash", etc. However, I would like to be able to turn parts/components off, and when I capture the Named View (Engine, for example), it captures not only the camera info, but also the parts that are displayed. That way the hood isn't in the way of the engine, when I go to the Engine named view.

odolyte · ‎03-10-2017

Could you please make section analysis available in render mode ? When we want to render the inside of an assembly, we have to cut through everything while we should be able to have section analysis available ! Com'on guys this is a simple one... Please!!

Anonymous · ‎12-27-2015

I do a fair amount of work with cams, slot-sliders, and other contacting surfaces. It'd be really nice to have some sort of tangent joint to fix two surfaces tangent to one another regardless of their orientation. This would be really usefull for designing cam systems and more complicated slot mechanisms that can't be captured by the pin-slot joint.

tysonbunker · ‎12-26-2016

It would be really nice to be able to add a counterbore or countersink to the backside of a hole not just the front of it. This can be especially helpful when adding a hole from a flat face through to a curved face that need a counterbore for a fastener. The only way I have found to do this is to add a construction plane where you want the counterbore to start and model it manually.

alandmarino · ‎07-07-2016

Hi, i've found this issue when lofting surfaces. If the option "smooth" is activated, only surface continuity is ok, but not the edges. Here an example: Thank you! Alan.

Anonymous · ‎09-15-2014

Please add the ability to create welds.

tshilling · ‎03-14-2016

When filleting or chamfering an edge, the user is given the unlimited ability to increase the size of the feature via the GUI arrow. Upon dragging the arrow, other body features can cause the fillet/chamfer to generate an error, that will prohibit the creation of the new feature. For instance, if there is a 10.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 unit cube, the maximum chamfer that can be created is 10.5 units. However, the step size that the chamfer GUI provides increments as an integer of 1 unit. This means the the largest chamfer able to be set by the GUI is 10 units as an 11 unit chamfer would cause an error. Instead of jumping from 10 to 11 units the GUI should step through 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 to 10.5 units (the max chamfer possible) and stay there until the GUI arrow is used to decrease the size of the chamfer. The current implementation reguires the user to know in advance the size of the cube and manually set the chamfer value if the maximum feature size is desired. Recommend that when the fillet/chamfer becomes too large, the value in the dialog box is set to the largest possible value that would not result in an error condition, illiviating the user's need to guess or preordane the correct value. This is a minor annoyance and the user has the ability to workaround the issue but it should be corrected when practicable.

robhalvo · ‎06-09-2016

Currently the Fusion importer assumes that an stl is in centimeters with no option to change it - other than scaling once open. I would like to see an import dialog box with the option to set the units in cm, mm, inches, as well as setting a user defined scale. I would also like to see files retain their file extensions after import. Robbie Halvorson Sr. Designer Boston Scientific

DWhiteley · ‎08-15-2017

Further disrupt Swx by adding a fluid flow analysis to ultimate.

Solar-emc · ‎09-01-2016

It would be nice to control each body's profile.

i-make-robots · ‎05-11-2016

The app will accept "3/8 * 1in" as a dimension. The app will not accept "3/8in". The app will behave the same for other units of measure. mm, cm, ", ', and ft tested.

Anonymous · ‎07-17-2017

I absolute love Adaptive Toolpaths and Vortex in Powermill, I try to run them as much as possible, I push my machine to the limit every day and strive for lower cycle times and better production. One of the things I love everything about fusion is adaptive clearing, however there is one important thing thats been overlooked here. I see this often, and I wish I had a setting in my adaptive options to avoid this, when it leaves this tall, long and unridgid wall when clearing out material. Id love to see in Fusion and HSM works an option to avoid this, where the toolpath would (when clearing all the material anyways) leave a set thickness to this wall (Say 1inch, so its rigid enough) then start from the end, working its way in, using slot clearing or a similar strategy, thus avoiding breaking ends, shooting thin sections all over the machine, or worse, pulling the wall into the tool and snapping a 1 inch carbide endmill running at 12 grand, 800 inch/ min. I just took a photo, this is a very weak example of what is happening, but same idea. I often get it much worse, this is just a photo I took before writing this to illustrate the problem. Thanks in advance for any input.

Anonymous · ‎07-14-2016

We need to be able to set the normal of the construction plane so that sketches be reassigned to a new plane don't get flipped, or splits being redefined via a new plane aren't flipping body identities.

Anonymous · ‎08-18-2016

When creating a Sweep, we can only put a fraction of the path as a distance. It would be great if we can also put a distance units in order to parametrize de value. Thanks!

roambotics_scott · ‎03-15-2015

This is fairly minor but still annoying and easy to fix. I just updated F360 and during the update process, put Fusion in the background and looked at a few web pages. Fusion brought itself to the foreground no fiewer than five times during the update process (and twice more just now as I was writing this sentence). More annoyingly those were all for things that required no user interaction. It's just of a matter of politeness not to steal focus unless you're sure it's what the user would want (and, in my case, that'd be never).

Anonymous · ‎01-30-2016

The ability to trim a projected curve like any other sketch entity

BrienKing · ‎06-09-2015

Right now if I want to create construction lines, it's always a multi step process. It becomes VERY tedious to add them. I would like to see a mode for Sketch where you are in "Construction Mode", meaning that everything you sketch is a construction line/circle/whatever, until you exit the mode. Right now I have to draw a line, select the line, right click, then select "Construction" Should be an easy toggle, maybe a check box on the Sketch Palette..

cekuhnen · ‎01-02-2017

I can understand that if I want a step export or OBJ export that the file has to be generted first but sometimes you wait some time for the fusion archive download link to arrive via email thats when you are under time pressure not ideal.

scott.mayson · ‎07-02-2016

It would be great to have a conform tool to match separate bodies to existing surface geometry as you can in Alias Studio. See image below where detail is matched to existing geometry.

thburn · ‎04-03-2016

Hi, recently I had the problem that a hand drawn canvas I got from a friend was not horizontal aligned perfectly. Currently it is not so easy to do this in F360. One can use two lines, measure the angle between them and rotate the canvas by this angle. (Shown by Mark in this thread: Rotate canvas), but this is very time consuming so I want to have a tool which is easy and quick to use. The tool should work like this: This new option could be positioned below the 'Calibrate' function: Thanks for voting...

cekuhnen · ‎05-13-2016

Fusion 360 is unable to loft 4 profiles when on one side two curves meet while two other curves to not meet. MOI just crunches through it and builds the surface. Fusion gives up telling you that the surface would self intersect. In the screenshot you can see the nice result. A sharp tip where all 4 curves meet and a flat edge where only two curves meet. Another example that shows that Fusion 360 modeling tools are in some serious need for being updated.

Anonymous · ‎07-10-2016

Hi, Fusion 360 is great to produce CAD but would be even greater if was possible to simulate non-imaging and imaging optical elements/systems (design of illumination systems, projector systems, LASER based systems etc). Is it something you would consider in implement in the near future? Best Regards, Nelson Faria

pjreijiri · ‎09-20-2017

Hello, Is it possible to add a weld feature? Kind of like "Combine" but adds the welding visual and then when doing the 2D drawing, it would help with putting the right symbol.

yoshimitsuspeed · ‎09-06-2016

I thought reporting this as a bug would be enough but it seems AD doesn't care because of lack of apparent customer interest. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/save-image-not-to-cloud/m-p/6240597#M49788 When exporting it gives you the option to save the file to cloud. Back in the good ol days it only gave you the option to save images to your computer. As usually instead of adding options AD took away the option of just saving to your computer and now forces the image to be saved to the cloud and only gives you the option of saving it to your computer. This is very frustrating and results in images cluttering up project folders or more work deleting them.

Anonymous · ‎02-05-2016

I need the capability of performing a transient thermal analysis? I have a thermal load that is repetitive. The load is on for 300uS, and repeats every 3 mS for example. I need to be able to determine the temperature vs time for several hundred milliseconds for this type of transient load.

Anonymous · ‎02-04-2016

There are a couple things that would be kind of nice for some stuff in the CAM section. Looking to have a radius option on the face mill and pretty much all the other tools (for the most part) would be kind of cool. Still waiting for a custom tool interface for custom profile tools. I know it's not super necessary, but it would be nice for a couple things we do here. A slotting/slitting saw option would also be kind of nice. Right now I use the Key seat cutter and it does an ok job. But the slotting saw has a bolt and washer on the bottom side that protrude about 3/16" from the bottom of the saw and it would be nice to be able to account for that so I can check clearances in the simulator. Not super necessary, but would be nice.

ARTHUR-HM · ‎08-03-2016

The ability to create your own light source and place them where you please would be fantastic.

Helmi74 · ‎09-15-2013

Am i really the first one to bringt this topic in the ideas section? Can't believe... maybe i just missed that? I think there should be a possibility to save reusable parts in fusion with easy possibility to reuse this parts. This should be highly integrated into Fusion360 instead of just linking to an external service like Grabcad - at least if an external service is used the UI should be integrated. Examples for such parts could be: - extrusion profiles - screws, bolts, nuts - standard parts like stepper motors, belts, and so on Parts should be exportable to the library from a component level (context menu -> export part) and easily importable into a drawing. When exporting the existing rights system from Fusion360 could be used and this way anyone could share his parts with the public, a closed workgroup or just keep them private or share with single people. When importing it probably would be a good idea to choose if you would like to copy the part when importing or just import an instance of the part which changes when the part in the library changes (maybe advanced level, hm?). Well that's just what came out of my head and i thought i'll write it down. I'm sure there's lots of kinks i don't see yet but hey, we can discuss it, can't we? 😉

dcphoto · ‎06-25-2015

I know this has been discussed in the forum, but I didn't see anything here as a suggestion. Please streamline the workflow for exporting a face as a DXF, like in Inventor. I know I can create a sketch of the face, then export that. How about a simple right click on a face, export as DXF? Would make life easier, especially if you have quite a few sketches. Edit: Click count for exporting 9 faces: Fusion 360 - 72 clicks, not including naming files or erroneous clicks. Inventor 2016 - 18 clicks, not including naming files.

Anonymous · ‎08-18-2015

Is there any chance of getting continues 4th axis milling ?

Anonymous · ‎02-24-2017

Right now Fusion doesn't have a quick way to sketch lead in chamfers. It would be great if the chamfer tool was a little more intuitive where you can select an angle and length then chose what face you want that chamfer to be on. This would help on round parts you would machine in the lathe. Example would be a 15 degree angle and .200 long. This would be a lead in for a sleeve that needs to be press onto a shaft.

Helmi74 · ‎01-16-2016

Hi, i think the fillet feature should be expanded or there should be another feature added to simplify the creation of dogbone fillets for machining. No matter if we're using Fusion360 CAM or just preparing parts to be machined in other applications it would be extremely handy to have a solid dogbone fillet creation tool. I know there's already an addin but a) it's quite unstable and doesn't work in many situations without beeing really responsive in telling the user what's going wrong. b) it doesn't integrate very well within timeline and parametric editing which would be great to have for easily editing fillets afterwards. I think this might make a good addition to the fillet feature as an additional type and therefore not add clutter to the interface. Thanks, Frank

acrease · ‎07-09-2015

Currently, it seems like you can't select more than 2 lines (or any other sketch objects) and apply any constraints apart from "fix" to them. In the below sketch, the three lines are entirely undefined. You should be able to set them all equal, colinear, or horizontal/vertical without having to click on them one two at a time. In the case of 3 lines, it's not that bad, but if you had a complicated sketch with many more lines or other objects and you wanted them all to be equal, it would be much quicker and more efficient to be able to select all of them and hit "equal" instead of having to go through all of them two by two.

Anonymous · ‎09-15-2016

A quick CAM idea that would be very useful. How about being able to visually manipulate/tweak the CAM toolpaths with your mouse (after the CAM paths have been generated with the editor)? In the same way that you can Push/Pull and extrusion with your mouse, using the Push/Pull arrows, it would be great to fine-tune the toolpaths in CAM by right-clicking your mouse to make the adjustment. The changes can be made visually or a simpler dialog box (similar to what is appearing in CAM edit already, but simpler), would allow for numerical changes. Just right-click on the toolpath and a simpler dialog box would appear to change standard settings I think this would be great for: - tweaking individual lead-in and lead-out paths/arcs/lengths - which would allow for more 'creative' fixturing, or if you are simply trying to avoid hitting a fastener. - Adjusting feeds in certain toolpath zones - applying bezier handles to toolpaths for more accurate tweaking - especially useful for defining where the tool enters and exits the path - allow for tighter nesting of parts Just a suggestion - not sure if this was discussed before. The idea came up when struggling to 3D Contour organic surfaces that intersected with geometric ones, and wishing I could just move a couple of the paths with my mouse. This would be designed to help tweak the toolpath after it's been generated. Thanks, Dave

Anonymous · ‎08-15-2017

It would be great if we could model a 3-axis mill spindle and be able to attach it to the tools in the tool library so we can check for clearance issues when running simulation. But not make it like the "add a new holder" option but to be able to create the spindle completely as a model then create coordinate system at which the tool holder would align itself to the axis defined an then open said model in the library. We can name the coordinate system a specific name so the program knows to attach it so when there's multiple coords it wont get confused. I prefer adding my mill table with vises and OTC into the CAM so i know nothing will hit.

Anonymous · ‎02-10-2016

I've seen this error a few times where the CAM operations don't produce any tool paths. Usually it's something simple and I can spot the problem, but sometimes I'm completely stumpped and have to try a different operation even though I know that the original operation should be able to do what I need. To be polite the CAM errors and warnings are not very descriptive.

Anonymous · ‎07-29-2014

When you use the Cut portion of the Combine Tool, you have the option to have a single target body and multiple tool bodies, but if I want to cut a single thing out of multiple bodies, I'm stuck doing several iterations of the Combine tool. Can we have the option for multiple target bodies as well as multiple tool bodies? I'd rather take a bit more time for it to do calculations on multiple bodies than have to go through the combine tool multiple times.

Anonymous · ‎12-16-2016

In Autodesk Inventor, you can quickly name a dimension for parametric modeling by entering "totalWidth = 15in" into the Sketch Dimension toolbox in place of just "15in" - this doesn't work in Fusion. The only way I have found to do this in Fusion is open up the Parameters dialog and manually edit the spreadsheet, which becomes time consuming and tedious! Attached is a photo of how this feature works in Inventor.

HughesTooling · ‎12-14-2016

It would be useful if you could select multiple paths with branches for the pipe command. Also allow selecting multiple paths that don't touch. It would help laying out waterways and runners in mould tools. Screencast example done in Rhino. Mark

Anonymous · ‎05-10-2015

There isn't currently a set up for moving an object along a curved track/line. There is also no means to have a curved object telescope.

lacrimacz · ‎05-11-2016

Would it be possible to make the toolbar more customizable? I would like to be able to customize the following: Icon sizes Order of sections* Configurable toolbar size (not just one line of icons) It would also help to be able to define my own keyboard shortcuts. F360 is improving in this regard, but still most commands are not accessible via keyboard shortcuts. ___ * After the last update, the order of sections has been changed and I would like to set to what it was (e. g. Create-Modify-Sketch...). I can reorder tools/commands within individual sections, but not the sections. I can understand changing UI layout when there are larger changes in functionality, but this last one does not seem to fall into that category and is pretty annoying

Anonymous · ‎01-31-2017

The magenta projected sketch features are really frustrating, the entire point of making separate sketches is to keep the sketches clean and clear. But you still need to reference external geometry and sketches. I thought the deselecting the "Auto project edges on reference" box in the preferences would solve this but so far it seems to make absolutely no difference. The problem. Start a sketch, draw a circle, extrude to cylinder, start a new sketch, draw a rectangle, make an edge tangent, close sketch, hide the cylinder body. At this point the last sketch with the rectangle is the only thing showing, but it includes a projected circle from the original cylinder....WHY!!!!! This is such a frustrating issue, it makes me not want to use this software. This does not happen in any of the other CAD package I've used, and there needs to be a way to turn it off.

Anonymous · ‎10-22-2015

I'm not too fond of being limited to the cube to change model views, as well as the animation that is slow to change views. Solidworks has Ctrl+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 as default to change views, and a slider to quickly change the model view or even turn it off. Mouse gestures to do this would help as well.

cekuhnen · ‎12-16-2015

I reposted this idea simply because I find the concept that cloud update first and then insert is the better idea. It is not. It is slower and more complicated. While it is great to be able to also upload a sketch like DWG into the cloud account I highly suggest to rethink the idea and enable a designer to lead a DWG into a sketch like any other CAD app can do - just load it locally.

Anonymous · ‎06-28-2016

Please modify the 2-tangent circle sketch option to support tangent to arcs and circles. It currently only supports lines.

Anonymous · ‎06-20-2016

It would be very helpful if you added a feature where you could do sketches in a drawing sheet. This would be separate from annotation, and enable you do things like make something obvious if you want it to be clear.

Anonymous · ‎12-03-2015

In Autodesk Showcase (or Vred) is possible to create alternatives for impact presentation so that you can evaluate aesthetic and design alternatives in real time with peers, constituents, and customers. alternatives: material visibiliti posision and mix it and create a render Job to tenderize all alternative, or some of them.

wyattm · ‎09-10-2015

Involved in a project with both metric and imperial at the moment. Collaboaration has meant parameters have changed. Even though 39 3/8in in super close to 1m it's annoying as heck that when I defined that parameter I can only change it's value not it's unit after the fact.

jkelindberg · ‎10-22-2014

I would like to see the helix feature a bit more flexible to use. I'm currently trying to make a helical gear, but it's proving elusive with the current set of tools. The most obvious problem is of course that you can only select circular, square or triangular cross section for the helix, whereas on a helical gear you would want to use your involute profile to cut with. Second problem is that the cross section is tangential to the diameter of the helix, and for a helical gear you want it to be oriented axially. So to make a long story short;1. User defined cross section sketches2. Orientation of the cross section (tangential/axial)Another way would be if it was possible to make a helical curve in 3D space and do a sweep along that curve, but this is not possible either (as far as I know)

Anonymous · ‎05-19-2016

I would like to be able to easily organize and reorder the user parameters I create. Right now it is organized by which one was created first. This is ok if you only have a few parameters, but once you are working with over 20 and someone else has to scroll through and find out of order parameters it becomes a real headache. So an option to simply drag each parameter to reorder them would be a huge help.

BrienKing · ‎06-03-2015

Right now I can go into sketch, select a few features and copy them within the same project. I want the ability to copy features from one project to another. For example, I have a sketch that has a few circles, and boxes, etc... that are arranged and I want to make part of another sketch in another project. Right now, I have to recreate the sketches, when it would be really nice (and save me a lot of time), if I could just do a Copy from project A, then go into project B and paste into the sketch.

robduarte · ‎06-29-2016

Fusion 360 allows you to save multiple designs into the same project/folder with the same name. I'd argue that it should prompt you when attempting to save with a duplicate name - same as 99% of other software that we use.

Anonymous · ‎06-03-2015

I'd like more than 100 steps in a motion study. At present it seems to result in slightly jumpy motion and imprecise positional control when using a combination of large and small movements.

Anonymous · ‎02-21-2016

Hi, for intended offline work - e.g. doing the CAM program in front of the machine while another part is processed - I wanted to sync multiple parts (like 20) to my offline cache. Unfortunately there's no selection or single-button solution for that. Instead, I have to open every part so the offline cache file for it is created. My idea: introduce, maybe on project level, a checkbox which, when checked, syncs the project contents from the cloud to the harddrive of the connecting computer whenever it is logged in. This way no worry anymore about whether and when the part was last opened, no merge issues, etc. Instead, working offline can prepared properly and syncing back to the cloud will be easier as well. If this is already requested somehwere else, I am sorry, didn't find it then. Regards, Daniel

odolyte · ‎03-09-2015

One nice feature would be that F360 keep track of the time passed on modelling a 3D model. I think this could be useful for freelancers using F360 or teams that work on a project and have to determined how much time they have spent on a project.

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