Hi,   I suggest that save captured images to tiff format actually would benefit from creating images in layers. Separate background, ground shadows, ground reflections and objects on each their layer would be really nice.   Righ now, I dont see the benefit of saving to tif at all.   /Henrik   Show More

I don't quite know if this issue is happening because I'm doing something wrong or this is actual problem with Fusion.     I'm drawing simple rectangle with fixed width and height and applying fillet on it's corners. But when I change radius of the fillet the rectangle will change it's size - which is something that I don't want to happen - I only want radius of the fillet to change...     This problem seems to appear only when I apply fillet on the 4 corners at the same time. If I apply fillet on every corner separately it works just fine and doesn't change the size of the rectangle.     Show More

I swear something is wrong with my installation, or surely this must be driving everyone else crazy.  It seems every 5-10 minutes when I do anything that requires autocad to do some kind of operation (like calculate whether a fillet is possible at the specified distance) it decides to put me on hold for 20 seconds or more for an autosave.  It sometimes even does it just minutes after doing an autosave or minutes after I personally save it.   It is sooo aggravating.  Oh my gosh. Is Fusion 360 queuing off my actions waiting for me to do something before it does an autosave?  I know there is another request I see "http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/when-autosaving-my-work-don-t-beachball-fusion-360/idi-p/5472538" but this is different.  I'm talking about timing.  I understand the autosaving does freeze things for a bit and I'm okay with that if it is done when I'm thinking about things when it's sitting dormant, but I swear it seems like the program is timing it at the worst time possible to do that, and often right after I've done a save myself.  If you watch user activity you'll discover that it happens mostly in spurts.  You can monitor that and then time the autosaves in the middle of those.   Thanks. Show More

with fusion 360 running in the background I'd like to use the OS command line for calling functions and scripts. This would really help with performing optimization algorithms using programs like MATLAB. Show More

Would be very handy to have the ability to project sliced geometry onto the live currant sketch plane. Inventor has option to project the cut section. The problem was I sketched guide curves for a loft then wanted to project the intersection points of these curves to lock the loft curves to.   Unless I am missing something 🙂   Thanks for your time All Show More

It would have been nice to have a warning ( for Noobs) that would have informed me that all the "files" created while evaluating and trying out the software will become in-accesible after registering. The files are saved on my computer but I can't seem to access them in any way shape or form. All those hours of work LOST! Show More

Would it be possible to change the colour of the environment, the sketches and faces? Show More

Maybe I've missed some slicker method in Fusion, but I wish I had arrow-pad navigation of the browser tree. I enjoy how OSX allows me to arrow down through a file list, Right-Arrow to open up a folder/component, Left-Arrow to close it back up again. Much quicker than mousing around.    Thanks for a great product! Show More

When you toggle visibility to hide certain bodies, it'd be good to make it so that only visible bodies are shown in the drawing. Show More

I am suggesting to add the functionality of copy-paste "portable" projections within a given component, at least in the case where both the parent sketches of the projections, and the sketch showing those same magenta colored projections, are directly contained within the same  component.   For example, (see attached Fusion 360 f3d file) I have 3 sketches residing within a single component. The first two sketches are basic sketches, the third contains projections in magenta color from the first two. When I copy and paste the component containing these sketches into a different design file, the projections in the third sketch of the copied component turn yellow, then green after redefining the sketch plane.   I assume I have to rebuild the projections, because they are lost essentially; no longer linked to the underlying geomerty, and any geometry which I constructed on top of the projections then must be rebuilt as a consequence, at least to avoid the mess of trying to re-connect them one by one.   Why do I bother using projections when I can draw it all on one sketch? Basic answer is reduce complexity and ambiguity of what connects to what, because it is one heck of a messy sketch with all residing in one or even two sketches, due to a whole lot of construction lines.   The projections are there to mask underlying parent geometry which contains complicated contruction lines. The first two sketches are essentially identical rectangles that can rotate around the origin via a parametric angle property. The magenta projections would follow the rotations of both parents respectively, and form a foundation for additional "bridge" geometry which can morph in size and shape as the projected geometry rotates. The bridge geometry creates the final closed shape for use as a body, which is a variable slot with start and end angle parametric property settings.   So the projections are essentially lost, (yellow then green colored) dispite all 3 sketches residing within the same component which was copied and pasted over to the new design project.   I would like projections made and set in a single component to stay there when that component is copied and pasted between design projects.   Show More

Just found that I can't do it, and probably it is straight forward to solve it, though I don't know if it would be useful for others.   It might sound weird at first, since why one would want that? It could be as simple as one might want to check side by side in an assembly how a part fits in two mirrored places using X-version and Y-version. Or for instance, if one has a linked model at an old version --with a lot of linked models, perhaps some out-of-date parts too, but you can't update'em all. If one drags another instance of the same model, it automatically gets the version of the old version in the assembly and not the latest.   I suppose this is not entirely bad, since some workarounds can be taken, but it'd be nice to choose versions indistintively, like if each linked model would be a branch or a fork from the original, and one could set that to point at different versions in history. Then if you implement something the edit-in-place like proposed here then it will act as a merge to the original history   If so, then the drop-down option of "Get Latest" should be split in "Get Latest for ALL instances" and "Get Latest for the CURRENT instance".   Thanks for such a great and complete tool, greetings from Barcelona, Spain. Carlos         Show More

Hi    I think it might help sketching if cursor shows grid dimension position . Example line sketch you can then put strictly to right position.   Show More

Because of the fact that the Fill Hole command doesn't create an exact circle with a defined center, sometimes it's pretty hard to e.g. make joints at the centers of circles created by the Fill Hole command.  It'd be nice if there were automatically a center point that was able to be selected/used as reference after the Fill Hole command is used for e.g. making joints.  I've been making do by creating construction axes between points and creating points at the intersection of those axes. Show More

Allow user to constrain two different sketches in an Iso view. Constraining sketch geometry in the "look at" view can be difficult. Sometimes you need to spint the model around to make sure your sketch is constraint to the right geometry. If there is a trick to get this to work let me know. Otherwise give me the freedom to constain in any view oreination.   Show More

I don't know if this is a bug or a new idea, but iether way this needs to be fixed or added into the software. Sweep using intersection sketch as a profile. Show More

It could help to have something like selections filter to select quick in a sketch all the projections lines, the close curves, the new sketched lines, and so on...this could help and improve the sketch process a lot.   Thanks Show More

It can be really helpful to draw lines with a "both sides" or a "symmetrical" function as the objects funtion. So it can be quick to draw an axis or contruction line on the sketch.   Thanks Show More

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

Many really good ideas get lost in the board time line.  If a idea gets voted for then it should rise to the top of the board. That way we would get a good idea of what would be popular.  As some ideas that users submit get a few votes before they are implemented but others despite being popular get ignored.    The top of the board method would see a lot of ideas being show cased.  Then the fusion team would be able to see what the user really want!    Show More

Hi,   I am having a minor issue with Fusion360 and Mac OS X El Capitan.   When I maximize Fusion360 by clicking the green button top left, and then move to another workspace by either using the three finger swipe left or right, or swipe up to manually select a different workspace Fusion360 unmaximise's and moves to the new selected workspace. This means you cannot access the Mac main Desktop without minimising the Fusion360 window.   Regards,   David Stevens aka 'davro'   Show More

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

The draft angle inspection tool is a great way to visually confirm that a part is ready to be cut for use as a mold or tool. However, when a part contains negative draft, and is not suitable for use as a mold or tool, it can be difficult to remove these negative draft areas, especially if the model is imported. It would be quite convenient if there was an option to add material in these areas of negative draft by basically filling in the area created by the nearest zero-draft edges.   For example, it would be convenient to quickly fill all yellow and red areas in the image above. I understand the inspect draft angle tool likely uses visual shaders to accomplish something like the image above, and so this functionality would likely be difficult to implement, but I hope it is at least worth consideration. Show More

-Allows older hardware to remain viable. -Allows newer hardware to pool resources for amazing renders. Show More

Right now you can only create full circular threads.  I need to be able to create 1/3 turn latch type threads.  I would be happy with 1/4 or 1/2 turn threads as well.  In such a case instead of creating a single thread, you have a thread that terminates with a stop to create either 2, 3, or 4 identical male threads and these with mate up with any 2,3, or 4 simple extrusions that ride the threads on the opposing piece. Show More

In Fusion 360 I would love to have an AutoCAD command line or a way to lock the Model Toolbox on my screen permanetly. I love Shortcut keys and the allow me to work much faster. Show More

The browser Tree is really cool and works fine. Now...the thing go chaotic at the time, when the user makes from a Body a Component. Automatically Fusion 360 creates a folder named "Component 1", which contains 2 Folders: Origin and Bodies. If the user want to make another component, Fusion adds a new folder named "Component 2", but now with 3 Folders inside it, after being activated the "Component 2" folder: Origins, Bodies and Sketches.   Now....my question/improvement is: I think, that at the moment, when the user creates the first Component, Fusion automatically adds the "Component 1" folder, which should contain the Origins, the Sketches and the Bodies folder. Is simply using the same parameters thought for the "Component 2" folder from the beginning. After this modification, the main "Sketches" folder could dissapear from the Browser Panel (because the new sketches will appear into the "Component 2" folder.   I hope this is clear.   Thanks   Show More

The Hole function on Fusion 360 is a good tools, but it need some "weapons".   One of the basic should be the snap option for the holes. One choose the face of the object, and the Hole appears on it, but it need references ponit to snap on it, like middle pont, edges, etc. Maybe is possible now to edit this adding constraints after doing the hole, but a snap funtion on the hole wizard will improve the work.     Another "weapon" should be a Hole wizard as SW, with ISO dimensions and forms.     Thanks Show More

When I do a sketch and make an extrution, Fusion works fine. But when I edit the sketch (the video below) the extrution stays as the previous stage. I think, an intellignet extrution, which extrudes automatically the same height as the first sketch can be very helpfull.   Thanks     https://youtu.be/Uy9dMbb4liI  Show More

On a Mac 13,3 Display, the Workspace is extremly thin, under the Render Area. The Turorial Panel, the Apparence panel, the Browser, The navigation Bar and the Render gallery make the space where the object (the real important thing on the screen) is compressed and makes difficult the task to drag and drop materials, makes changes or simply see the model.   Please thing about wich elements could be smaller, or a redesing of the panels.   Thanks Show More

Hello!   I am new here but I saw the IDEA thing which struck me that I should post as I actually have an idea for a new software. But I could not find how to suggest idea for new software so I am writing it under Fusion 360 as it "could" be added under that even if it might not be optimal as it might complicate things.   My idea is:   Make an object in 3d and software will turn it into sewing pattern including set seam allowance.    Software should be able to verify the pattern if it will be possible to create or not. (for example 1 mm thick tube would not work)  Ability to input the data of fabric behaviour by three directions: vertical, horizontal and diagonal stretch and save these into database of fabrics. Then software will use that date for the creation of the flat pattern.  Ability to output pattern with seam allowance of chosen width or without.  Ability to set the seam lines, if you prefer it to not correspond with the 3d model lines. Ability to add darts if preferred over separate pieces to minimize pattern pieces.   I am saying "stuffed toys" because it is an fun and inviting way for people (children!!) to make. (by then it is better to be made standalone free app in the 123 suite, likely using the 123 Design as input) But it can also be used for other applications. Fashion garments is given. Then also of course setting zero stretch on all directions can be used for hard materials such as paper and sheet metal. Show More

I would like to be able to delete old versions of my designs or "reset" my current design to be v1, if the previous versions are not references anywhere.   Mainly I'm asking this because I kind of overlooked the fact that 360 Fusion saves when it's being closed and I manually created a bunch of versions that bug me now when I am looking at my designs in the hub. Show More

The History Line could be smaller, with smaller icons.   It could also have an "Auto-hide" or roll down feature, to reduce the space and make the workspace bigger and cleaner.   Thanks!   Show More

I've spent about 3 days barreling through support, docs, tutorials and videos to get to the point where I can start my first test job.  That is a long time to wait to see your CNC machine working.     I think it would be HUGE for those of us who are novices to have a quick, basic tutorial to get the circle/square/triangle test or something basic from end to end.  Not something that teaches all the points, but something you can follow through and produce something on your shiny new machine.  It would have been so rewarding to be able to run a simple test job the night I had my Shapeoko3 set up.   Personally I think the 3D market is going to be the next silicon valley boom, so if you can make that first run something simple, I see a lot more people going to F360.   I'd also suggest you folks get someone to monitor the Shapeoko Forums, they are going to grow, and if I had seen a thread when I was searching telling me there's a free hobbyist license that is incredibly well documented with tons of videos and great support, I'd have been all over it.  Instead I wasted a week banging my head against a wall with MeshCAM. Show More

So why would you want this? Sooner or later there is going to be some geometry Fusion can't handle; the solution sometimes is to just hand code these situations. This feature would allow the user to either import some gcode from a file -or- copy and paste it into an edit box.  In addition to all the machining strategies offered, there could be one that says 'import', 'raw code', or something to that effect. The setup would contain four tabs:   1) the Tool tab, for speeds, feeds, coolant, normal tool info. 2) Geometry tab, which would carry 'Z" information and extents, but could be left empty. 3) Radius ( for lathe ops ), again could be left empty. 4) GCode - with a file selector and/or edit box.   Benefit:   This gives a solution for 'all' the arcane geometries that are difficult to create toolpaths for. It allows the user to go back and iterate design/machining strategy, without messing with work flow to copy and paste in segments in the gcode after post processing.    Extras:     Once the gcode is place, it could be parsed and a toolpath generated like any other op .. and possibly simulated.   Use-case:    I customer needed some parts for an aircraft engine that had a forward facing 45degree face with a dovetail o-ring groove in it. This was cut with two grooving tools that sat at 45 degrees to X,Z. One cut one side of the groove, the other the other. Both had to be hand coded, about 30 lines each. It would have been awesome to have a feature like this. Show More

Hello, i like the Fusion 360's functions and design. However there is one feature that is not properly designed, when creating new component one needs to choose Physical Material and i go to Modify and do that and it works fine. But then obviously i need to choose Appearance for the same component and i have to go again to Modify and choose it, so basically for the same task i need to go twice to Modify and this is not efficient and adds unnecessary complexity. So my idea is to add an Appearance feature or a shortcut in to the Physical Component feature so that when i create component i choose material then quickly choose Appearance, nice and simple!   Have a great day, Aleks Show More

Very often my workflow looks like something like:   Design parts/product Create a scene for the parts/product with a bunch of previously designed things.   When I first design some things though, I want to just import parts and play around before I give it a name and save it.  I might just sketch around, I might go in a totally different direction.   When I import into design before save, and am forced to save first, not only is it irritating, it disrupts my concentration when I am looking to quickly try out an idea.   Instead, it would be better to have a temporary name and prompt for a name to save as.  Can always do the standard Untitled thing although something more elegant would be great. Show More

Whilst workng with assemblies which have a reasonable number of parts, it becomes increasingly important to be able to show/hide whichever component is of interest.  I know similar posts have talked about "unhide all components" etc, but this can become confusing when all your component light bulbs are on, but clearly the object of interest is still not displayed (body is hidden).  To find the hidden body using the tree can be time consuming.   What I've found very useful in other packages (Catia in my case), is the ability to swap between the visible workspace, and the hidden workspace.  This means you can jump into the hidden workspace, clearly see all the components/bodies that are hidden, select the one you need and change its visibility as required - then jump back to the visible workspace.  The hidden workspace is obviously different by the fact that the background is set to a specific colour (different to the visible workspace background).     Show More

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

with the new update very soon to be downloaded, the components will be shaded, therefore the dimensions would be more easily read if they appeared in red, in addition can the random colours of the components be carried over in the drawing so they can be linked to the main/sub assemblies. Show More

It would be nice to have the ability to automatically smooth a spline curve, in the sketch editor.   I can't find any way to create a smooth curve, when I need to define several ponts to fix the path of the spline.  If I set the handles too close to the point, I get a "peak" in the line at that point.  If I set them too far away, I get a flat spot. Did I miss something, or can I not do this now?   Also, I'd like to have the distance of the two handles from the point be independant.  On a curve with a changing radius (spiral) the "weight" of the curve is not the same on both sides of a point.  Forcing both handles to be the same distance form the point makes the curve the same weight on both sides, and makes it hard to sketch a smooth spiral curve.  The two handles, and the point would still be on the same tangent line, but changing the distance of one handle form the point would not effect the distance of the other.   Brian Show More

Hi all, I see that sharing our 3D projects is cool I would like to have a system to show my 3D Fusion projects without carry my laptop or tablet. Because they don't have a 4K 60 fps output. I want to show my project in gorgeous 4K quality with a little box. Because the Nvidia Shield Android Tv has a lot of gpu power and because developing with Android is a snap, you have already the A360 player, I'd like to have a dedicated Fusion360 player to show animations, sections, notes, and evaluate my design projects.   regards Show More

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

When I make a new component it is very helpful if that body is not the same color as everything else in the drawing. This helps identify which faces belongs to which component. It also helps identify which components are copies or patterns. I'd like the ability to automatically rotate through a material library and assign a different material to each new component as its created.   Other ways to help with this request: Make it quicker to assign a material color without having to make a whole new material Decouple material properties from appearance Have a ready made set of matrerials that look good and have contrasting colors so I dont have to keep making my own. Share material sets across installs see: Onshape Default Part Colors Show More

Right mouse button too close "return" selection will really speed up the workflow Show More

Local mode like in all 3D programs. u just Select objects. or just one object (mostly) And when u turn local mode. all other objects are hiden so u can focus on work on that special part and u don't have to hide all objects manualy... just press one button or shortcut and u hide all objects&stuff aparat from that what is selected. Show More

  Hi Guys, often when I'm working with forms such as one in the image above, I need to be able to tweek certain groups of elements at any given time, sometimes I need a minor adjustment, other times I need a large shift and it's quite annoying to have to reselect the same faces and edges everytime I need an increment.   Yes I know I can just slowly adjust the form as needed, but it'll be easier if It was possible to have some form of quick select of faces on the model.   Potential issue would be after modification of the forms, if additional faces were added after use of the selection group, those added faces would be excluded, a work around would be the option to edit the group and add faces to it. I imagine it to work as a drop down arrow that belongs to each body.  Show More

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

The interface for "Physical Material" and "Appearance" is inconsistent with other commands, and very confusing.    Problems 1. In the contextual menu (available by right-click) for bodies in the browser, other commands are meant to apply some actions    to the selected body.     On the other hand, "Physical Material" command simply opens a window of materials, from which you have to drag a selection back to the body in the browser.  This is very confusing, because you expect that by selecting a material in the window you can change the material of the body, but nothing happens.  This confusion is caused by inconsistent usage of commands in the menu.   2. In the pop-up menu for "Physical Material" and "Appearance", it is not clear what should be done.  Other commands, such as "Texture Map Controls", there is "Selection", so people understand that something should be selected to make a change. Dragging physical material to selected bodies is a completely different method, and thus inconsistent with other commands.   Here are my proposals. 1. Remove  "Physical Material" and "Appearance" from the menu for bodies in the browser.     Those commands are available in the contextual menu you get by right-clicking empty space, and that is sufficient.   2. In the window that pops up by selecting "Properties" in the menu for bodies in the browser,      make the "Physical Material" and "Visual Material" selectable through a chain of menus.   3. In the pop-up window for "Physical Material" and "Appearance", add "Selection" at the top, just as other commands.     By selecting bodies before or after opening the window, and selecting a material,     the selected material should be applied to all the selected bodies.  No dragging and dropping.     Show More

When playing around with simulation, I noticed that occasionally the ghost image of the structure will jump from being displayed as wire frame to being displayed as solid. Once it becomes solid, it remains so and can make it tricky to see the results of the analysis. Rerunning the simulation generally doesn't help, but leaving simulation mode and coming back will sometimes reset this. Sarah Thompson Show More

When using edge sets. Interesting to have the selected "edge set" showing in a different color. This allows to easy distinguish the edges associated to that specific set. Show More

Iterators is a common concept in Python world. It would be nice to be able to use `for item in collection` syntax to iterate over collection items.   I'm not sure how exactly Fusion API works. In Python I'd do something like this: class Base: """Represents adsk.core.Base""" class CollectionMixin: """Allows to use `for .. in` to iterate over collection.""" def __iter__(self): return autodesk_collection_generator(self) def autodesk_collection_generator(collection): for index in range(collection.count): yield collection.item(index) class Document(Base): """Represents adsk.core.Document""" class Documents(Base, CollectionMixin): """Container for Document. Represents adsk.core.Documents """ def item(self, index): return Document() @property def count(self): return 3   With this implementation we'd be able to do this:   for item in Documents(): do_stuff_with(item)     For now it is possible to use this `autodesk_collection_generator` directly when required:   for product in autodesk_collection_generator(app.activeDocument.products): print(product.productType)     Show More

Please let Ctrl - Z undo the last value change when modifying user parameters.    Currently when you press undo when editing the parameters table, all changes are discarded as the table is closed. Especially after spending a fair bit of time adding user parameters and tweaking values, this was a very unexpected behaviour..    I made a change to one parameter that gave an undesired result, so i mindlessly hit Ctrl - Z, and suddenly all the parameters I had been adding were gone.   Additionally, it would be nice to be able to have the parameters table open while modelling, and be able to adjust them on the fly while building up a model. Currently you need to dismiss the table in order to use and other operation.   Thanks,   Niels  Show More

Allow to 3d sketch freely in the multiple views without putting a reference plane will make the flow easier. Show More