Scenario:   1. Assure you are in history-based design (capture design history = ON) 2. Create a box 3. Turn the box into a component 4. Copy/Past this component (creating a 2nd instance of the component) 5. Set a transformation when pasting this 2nd instance 6. Goto to the history of this last event (in the timeline) - the icon is a box pointing to another box.   There is no Edit capability.   The idea is to provide an Edit capability where you can see (and change) the transformation applied into the component.   Regards Marcio     Afficher plus

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!!!   Afficher plus

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     Afficher plus

Today there are 2 options for Orbit view { Constrained, Free }. I suggest a 3rd one that is Geometry-based.   In Geometry based you select the point (or vertice) where you want to rotate (orbit) the model and the view does not became centered in the point. Instead the view stays exactly as it is, but as you start to rotate (orbit), it will rotate around that point, that is not centered in the view.   The reason for that is when you are working in a complex area of the model and you just need to have a quick rotation to get a better perspective, the action to displace the model to center it in the point you select (as it is today) is a distraction that may disrupt the thinking process at that moment.   Regards Marcio Afficher plus

In the history-based design paradigm, as the model became large, the number of steps will also grow very much. The user should be able to group a sequence of steps into a group and name and describe that group. Maybe someday the timeline became a structure as the browser. And maybe both structures (browsers) can be opened outside the main viewport, eventually ... (now dreaming) even in another device (a smartphone for example). For example, the main viewport could be displayed in a very large screen TV and the browsers in iPads. Afficher plus

To make the history-based design even more useful, you could allow the users to write a simple description for that step. When the user hover the mouse over each step, you see the name of the feature and the name of the model ( quick question: is the name of the model important for each step ?). It should be nice to see a quick description for that step. This description can be used to provide the purpose or anything else for that step. This could make even easier to understand the model as anyone reconstructing the model step-by-step can read what was the intention or purpose of that step. As Fusion is moving towards a collaborative design environment, such capability could be much welcome to the team members.   Regards Marcio Afficher plus

Currently, a great workflow for making details is making T-splines in Rhino, then exporting the box mesh into an OBJ file. Import into Mudbox or Zbrush to make tons of quick nice details. After that, export back again into OBJ in low res in order to import back into Rhino and add engineering details.   This function and the align/snapping function is the only thing stopping me to completely changing my current workflow... Fusion 360 has lots of promise so I hope it can be added soon. But great job so!!! Afficher plus

When creating a design I'd like to be able to automatically save at an interval I define.   For example, because Fusion 360 crashes about every 10 minutes, I'd like to set it to save my work every 60 seconds.   I'd happily forgo this feature if Fusion 360 didn't crash every 10 minutes.   Perhaps a better feature than Autosaving at timed intervals would be to Autosave every change I make. Afficher plus

Currently the only way to insert an image into a design is by choosing the image file located on our local hard drive.     It is reasonable to expect that the person who creates an image (be it a drawing, or photograph) will very often not be the one who is developing the 3d model.  Or that a person might create a drawing at home, upload it to the activity feed for everyone to see, then go into the office expecting the image to be available for use in a new design only to discover that they now have to re download the image to their work computer, then place it in the model.  In the process they have created 3 copies of the drawing.  One at home, one at work, and one in the cloud.   Idea in 2 parts. 1.  I would propose that a mechanism for inserting images into open designs that are already uploaded to the project be provided. 2.  I would propose that a system for cloud storage and editing of images related to projects be enabled.   For example allow project level cloud access to a program like SketchBook Pro so that images can be created, stored, edited, and updated in the same place as the rest of the project data.   There is already an Idea that requests Sketchbook functionality from within Fusion 360 as included functionality. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Fusion-360-IdeaStation-Request-a/sketching-similar-to-Sketchbook-or-Mudbox-directly-above-the/idi-p/4782237   Rather than including Sketchbook Pro functionality directly into F360 I would see a program hypothetically known as SketchBook 360 which would simply be a version of Sketchbook Pro running in the Autodesk 360 environment.   Thanks for looking at this idea. phil         Afficher plus

Hi folks,   I am not very happy with the way how Fusion deals with external CAD data.   One the one side the upload and convert function via the Dashboard is incredible slow. It takes minutes to even load a sphere and cube Rhino document.   In addition if I am in a design I would love to simply be able to insert CAD files directly without the need to convert data.   Is there anyway to implement this workflow as well?     I do not mind the idea to upload data into the cloud like via the dashboard because from the dashboard you can also export data and that is quite nice as well. Afficher plus

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. Afficher plus

You can select a mesh and then hit convert to TS But you cannot select convert to TS and then select the mesh.   Both options should work because ofther wise a user could think the mesh cannot be selected to convert.   Also from a logical standpoint there is no reason why after selecting convert to TS command I should not be able to select the mesh to convert to TS.     Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2eWJQTnU4ZTRDUjQ/edit?usp=sharing Afficher plus

Why is there no way to add groups in the design time line?   Without them I am a victim to the object expliosion fusion will do when I start splitting parts.   Afficher plus

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

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.   Afficher plus

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) Afficher plus

It would be really handty to be able to split  or trim T-Spline faces using sketch geometry. I'm not sure if that would be possible or not but it would seem like it would make the workflow alot easier. Afficher plus

in timeline when you split you end up with many unwanted left overs.   this makes the browser hard to use and you scroll a lot. Afficher plus

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.   Afficher plus

Would it be possible for Fusion to remember the previous tool settings like No Chain selection down to the value for lets say the pipe dieamter?   It would speed up my workflow a lot so I can gesture repeat the command and just add surfaces quickly without turning off chain and entereing the diamter each time.   Afficher plus

Alias and Inventor are a pretty good combo as Alias surface files can be linked into Inventor meaning when you change the Alias file the data inside the Inventor file will be updated.   Alternatively it would be great when importing base featrues to have the ability to completely refresh the imported data.   But this would require that Fusion Imports data with their original location in 3d space so that parts in Fusion will be where they are in Alias or other CAD apps. Afficher plus

Fusion 360 seems to forget my username and password quite often. It'd be great (and just standard practice) in OS X to allow integration with the keychain to store that stuff so that users aren't tempted to use simple or common passwords for their accounts. Afficher plus

Here is the video outlining what I am missing.       https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2Wk1fd2hHOHhyVms/edit?usp=sharing Afficher plus

I'm sure there are other places where this could be useful but I am currently making a bunch of .stl files.  Every time I open one, and save as .stl I have to change the quality from MEDIUM to HIGH.  Or from MEDIUM to some CUSTOM setting.  It would be nice if I could choose the default in preferences, but I would settle for the dialog just remebering my previous choice.   thanks, phil   Afficher plus

would it be possible to extend the rib function so you can use this tool also with curved objects?   I tried every trick here and Fusion only lets me add ribs when the object is flat and not curved.       even projecting lines onto the curved surface does not work - I cannot select them as an input data for the rib tool Afficher plus

This actually touches on a few things and will be less interesting once things like automated design rules and exporting individual bodies or components as any format are implemented /but/ it'd still be great for you to partner with companies like Shapeways and Protolabs to build simple integrated prototype ordering into Fusion 360.    The flow would be something like  1) create design 2) select specific body or component to build 3) select manufacturer and process (Protolabs plastic CNC milling; Shapeways nylon SLS, etc) 4) design is validated against current design rules for the manufacturer and process and user is presented with any issues and suggestions for ways to fix them or an all clear 5) once the design satisfies all design rules, user can «order this part» 6) properly annotated part is uploaded to manufacturing partner 7) payment and shipping information is automatically and securely retained 8) teams and projects in Fusion 360 can have 1 or more authorized users with sign-off authority who act as gatekeepers to enusue that nothing is erroniously ordered Afficher plus

it seems to me that either the constraint engine is incomplete or crippled when comparing snapping and curve creation to Rhino.   So I cannot create a perpendicular constraint with a line onto a circle ... I cannot constraint a line to a spline ...   The video shows many of the problems I point out.   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2dFdiTUI3MFk0blU/edit?usp=sharing   will it be posisble to treat lines and splines the same way when doing constraints? Mathwise I do not see a reason why I can create a tangent line between to circles but not between to spline arc. All other CAD apps can at least create a curve with that snapping.   Any comment from the developers? I understand constraints in sketches are quite different than drawing in Alias but still ... Afficher plus

Here is a screencast outlining the problem and inefficiency I experience with the 3D sketch tool.   If I create a sketch in 2d top view I can click a point and move it nicely by dragging it. However to move a point up I need to use the move command. In addition the handles from top view will look flat from a side view.   I cannot click drag anything and the 3D sketch environment feels extremely slow and complicated to use. It is quite painful to be honest.   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2akdPbFFoZGF3QW8/edit?usp=sharing     Proposal: when I switch into a side view I want to see the side grid as well. In addition when I switch to a different view the inferface should be as easy to select and move like in view I created the sketch in! Afficher plus

I'm almost certain someone else must have suggested this but it'd be great if we could easily «pin» designs to the top of the dashboard. We're finding ourselves ending up with a long list of design variants at the top of our dashboard - most of which we only need once or twice - while the main ones we care about get pushed way down in the list.   Note - this would be much less of an issue if the copy-paste thing from another of my suggestions were implemented 🙂 Afficher plus

so Fusion is offline right now and man is it FAST with opening files.   So the interface itself is great - and it looks like the dashboards is what is really slow here. Even complex furniture models opened in seconds and not half a minute and closed equally fast!   Can you make that happen also for the online mode?   Afficher plus

Tested in DM:   The Rib feature does not allow a center positioning of the created volume along the input profile curve. In the screenshot you see that the directions and spacing is off:   Also FUsion does not allow you to do ribs when selecting a sketch that includes many single non-connected lines.   I really do not want to select all lines.   So if I connect them like in the first image I would need the spacing to be centered along the profile. Afficher plus

I'm sure this has come up before (possibly even from me) but it'd be great to be able to copy bodies / components from one design and paste them into another (or drag them to the tab of another and drop them in).   As nearly as I can tell the current workflow for that is to «save a copy as», create a whole new design and then place the parts which clutters the dashboard (with things nearly indistinguishably named by default) and seems like a few needless extra / time consuming steps (especially given that the cloud sync isn't instantanious) Afficher plus

Currently the design timeline only offers extrude revolve sweep but no loft/blend command.   Specifically Blend/Loft is a very important command and it has to be inside the toolset. Otherwise this form I can only add as a base feature and in DM Fusion does not allow you to edit parametrically the feature commands. Double clicking the loft command does not open the tool dialog afterwards. Afficher plus

Subscription prices for cloud based services should be the same world wide for this cloud based product. Resellers are no longer required and provide NO added value. Please for once be reasonable to us Australians...... Afficher plus

Very often I find that it'd be convienent to orient bodies or components along axes that are translated and rotated relative to the global axes. For most parts, it should be pretty easy to identify the principal axes and do a bit of magical inference to identify local «front», «back», «top», «bottom», etc faces (it'd save a lot of effort and annoyance hand alinging things that, for easmple, are rotated 60º from any of the globals) Afficher plus

Hi,   how many threads we will have in the future which are related to switched on / off parametric mode and missing/disapperaing tools, HUDs, manipulators, etc.??? The autodesk teams should count how many threads we had in the past. How long this will go in the future? It cannot be that some functions just disappear because parametric modelling is activated, this is really really uncomfortable and confuses a lot of users, like many threads in this forum show. It could be so easy, I posted already in another thread: 1. Indepentend from the selected modelling mode please show always all tools, HUDs, manipulator, etc. 2. If one of the tools, HUDs, manipulator, etc. is not working in parametric modelling mode just disable it, grey it out, but keep it visible! 3. On hovering the mouse over a disabled tool, HUDs, manipulator, etc. show a hint 'tool only wotking in direct modelling mode' This way users can see that a tool exists and don't have to wonder why a tool sometimes exists sometimes not. So it's just that easy! These three steps could reduce a lot of users confusion! Please implement asap and help the users get rid of many confusion.   Thanks!   Afficher plus

This would be similar to the Track Changes tool in Word. At a certain point the user would click «start tracking changes» and all modifications from that point on would be shown with a color or similar indication.   There are many times when mating surfaces need to be push-pulled by some amount to ensure proper fit and something like this would be helpful to ensure that we get everything and don't hit the same surface more than once (of course - some sort of automated fitting tolerances with ghost components would be better.. but that'd be a major new feature and this you could probably implement in a few hours). Afficher plus

So In Blender I can enter (3'-2")*3 and it calcualtes the math result and enteres it into value entry field.   Fusion being a CAD system should do the same. Like in the screenshot, instead of having to go to a calculator for complex problems or for a quick adjustment it will be highly beneficial if you can enter equation and let the software do the math for you.   Afficher plus

I just noticed that Fusion does not store the rotation factor when moving rotating etc an object.   This is a major short comming of the design timeline idea and adding features. What purpose does the move feature have when after I did a command I do not know what I did. With an extrude command it always tells you how far you extruded etc.   So the move command has to have also store the move and rotate values!!!   Otherwise I have to write down on paper what I did. Afficher plus

I think Fusions till lacks serious abilities to move scale rotate quickly objects in relationship to grid freehand positions.   Fusion has to be able to repostion the move widgest by hand and snap to the grid and not only snap to excisting geometry. Check the Rhino video and you will see the extrem visible shortcomings in Fusion right now.   Rhino Fusion Screencast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2dHZ1S200ZEV1Wjg/edit?usp=sharing Afficher plus

I would like to have a sketch plane created and rotated but I need to select some reference geometry first.   Ideally Fusion should also be able to create a sketch plane and rotate it when the users enteres xyz and r values by hand. Afficher plus

Can we also have a move and rotate function for adjusting sketch planes?     Afficher plus

One of the most annoying parts of the engineering aspect of Fusion is that when I change dimensions of a sketch in Fusion the sketch moves.   Here is an example: So I change the radius of the fillet and instead of the top getting smaller or bigger (change of radius) also the triangle changes it's size.            The point of constraint sketches is that I can place them where needed and extrude my solids out of them and when adjusting the sketch the solid will be adjusted.   As a designer I do not want to reposition my solid after editing the sketch! Afficher plus

It would be nice if fillet radius would accept 0 so it could be used to clean up imported sketches.  It is a great way to make the ends of two lines match. Afficher plus

Hey all,   i rather often come across the situation where i need to create a rectangle that is centered to a reference point on one axis and aligned (not centered) to another reference point on the other axis. Therefore a mix between the center and a 2-point rectangle would be great. I'd then like to select the center reference point and move the rectangle in one direction without it getting mirrored/centered on both axis.   I've made a video with an example (hope it's understandable what i intend to say): http://screencast.com/t/ZDsGXmoL6   btw: this is one of MANY points where dynamic measuring could help so much. I think we need to bring this discussion up again as old requests regarding this topic already sunk down to nowhere. Afficher plus

Hi,   i'd like to be able to share my drawings with other people for review. This should be possible with people not registered with autodesk and they should only have access to renderings and the interactive 3d view in the browser. Also it should be possible to revoke this share again.   I'm not sure which one would be better:   Idea 1: share a link which always shows the most up to date version of a file as long as the link is active Idea 2: export a public preview which would mean you have to re-export after changing things but this makes sure the other party only sees what you wanted to show them and you could continue to work on the file without changing the preview.   Somehow i like both ideas for different reasons. Maybe both could be realized? With both it would be great if you could set an invalidation time like "autodelete after X days/hours)" or manually delete after it was created.   One way or the other, i think we should have a way to share an easy webview and with the great renderings and the browser based 3d view that are already there, things are more or less setup for that.   What do you think? Afficher plus

In editing T-Splines, whenever a command is invoked that results in the loss of symmetry- Match, for instance- a warning should come up so the user can either decide to 1) use another approach, or 2) know to reestablish the symmetry after the action.    Afficher plus

Greetings,   unfortunately Fusion360 still crashes way more than it should (tho things seem to get better). While crash recovery is very useful and most of the time quite up to date (if it works at all) the access of crashed files is a bit weird on Mac OSX and i think this should be improvied, especially for fresh users that are not so much used to what's going on.   The problem is you can easily miss existing recovery files as there's only a System notification that hides itself after a few seconds and is then only visible in the notification sidebar that is hidden by default. You have to open this and depending on other notification of other applications you can then more or less easily find the notification from Fusion360. Additionally you have to know that only clicking this notification brings up another dialog from Fusion360 that shows which Files are available for recovery. That is not very handy and i think newbies completely miss this.   Suggestions:   1. Make the system notification sticky. Mac OSX notifications have an option for additional buttons. For example Update notifications from the Mac App store use this for important updates where you can opt to install now from the notification with the click of a button. This should be used to make the notification sticky and can also be used to show the user that there's an action when clicking the notification.   2. Alter the UI of Fusion360 itself to show available notifications. As far as i understand Fusion360 (like all other 360 desktop applications) splits into two parts: the local application itself with the "application frame" and the dashboard which basically is a website. As i understand only the local application knows of existing recovery files and it is hard or impossible to show these files as alert or even more eyecatching notification in the dashboard it should be possible to use the local application to handle this a bit smarter than now. I've been crazy enough to use all my available design skills (yes, that's all) to mockup something that i could imagine useful:     Bam, that's it 😉 I'm sure there will be a more designful way to integrate this but i also think this could be something that is eyecatching enough and if combined with a simple dropdown showing the file name and the last save date of the recovery file this could be easily used even by beginners and can't be overseen accidently.   I don't know much how crash handling is done in windows as i only use the virtual machine to try a bit with beta versions not available on OSX (like documentation and cam360) but luckily didn't have much crashes there until now. Afficher plus

Hi,   when mirroring an object you need to have a mirror line. Often these mirror lines are "virtual" as you don't really need them as part of your assembly or sketch so you have to draw/create something to mirror your objects. It would be great to not having to create this lines/plane prior to selecting/starting the mirror feature but beeing able to dynamicly tell Fusion360 where to mirror after selecting the objects to mirror. This could then not result in an object that has to be delted afterwards but could magically disappear after clicking ok.   As an example you could look at AutoCADs mirroring. There you can just click to points to create a virtual mirror line that never appears in your drawing later. Something like this should easily work within sketches in Fusion360. For the 3d environment of course this wouldn't work that easy but maybe something similar could be found?   The same goes for center points of circular patterns or lines for rectangular patterns. With a bit of snapping logic it shouldn't be a problem to dynamically set these in sketch mode - again for the 3d world this has to be different.   Maybe anyone else with an idea for 3D? What do you think? Afficher plus

I've struggled with this for 15 years. Creating something as simple as a silk screen for mechanical models is a pain. Instrument panels Safety instructions Company logos Etc.   The only required data is a decent PDF, getting there is the hard part.   So far: Fusion 360 has exact 1:1 model. Another key ingredient. Fusion 360 also has Sketch Text! Without which, this would be pointless. Missing: Right click on a sketch and save as PDF.   PDF output from a sketch? It would make the sketch text extremely valuable to the designer.   Currently, in order to create a silk screen PDF file, a user with Fusion 360 will have to: Export the mechanical file as .SAT or other generic. With no text visible, the 3D model text is not usable downstream. Open the file in Inventor. Make 1:1 drawing views. Export as .DWG Open in AutoCAD to clean up the file. Export to Adobe Illustrator. Re-draw the text! That is over $10k in additional software, tripping the data through 3 additional platforms, doing the text twice, and hope you don’t have an edit prior to final production!   Wish for Fusion: right click on sketch, Export to PDF.  Saves the user $10k, hours of extra work, and user enjoys quick accurate updates.   Afficher plus

I would like to see a control point spline capability. Similar to whar was added in Inventor. Afficher plus

Hi   this also is a topic we already discussed months ago and i can't really believe that nothing happened so far. By default Fusion360s (and other 360 products) world coordinate system is aligned so the Y-axis is UP. I understand that this is the default in some regions of the world or maybe some businesses but also it is true that:   - all of the 3D printers i know - all of europe from schools up to university, architects, engineers - some other Autodesk products (at least AutoCAD Mac 2014) - loads of other 3D-Software (like Sketchup, OpenSCAD - even the english speaking Wikipedia shows "Z-up" as their example for a cartesian coordinate system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system   ...they all use "Z up" as their default.   I accept that you still could discuss what should be default but it's a desaster that all the 360 products are still not able to simply switch orientation in a way that works throughout the system and doesn't need a dirty hack that crashes every now and then on different actions. My hack:   1. rotate objects so they fit the "right" orientation.  2. rotate view to you look straight to the top of your model 3. right click the house symbol next to the view cube and "set current view as... > top" 4. rotate to a view that you would use as a home position 5. right click the house symbol again and "set current view as home...-> fit to view"   This basically works for STL exports which means the STL files i export now have the correct orientation to work with the tools in my 3d printing toolchain (and no, the autodesk print utility is not within this toolchain).   But: What you then get is rotated thumbs in the dashboard because your view settings don't get respected here (even though the named views in Fusion work as they should). Also Fusion360 is broken when you "save copy as" a component - the new file completely reseets your settings again and Y axis is up again.   I wish there could be a simple default setting for this and a setting on a per file base that lets me override the default setting for single files without having to take 5 steps and refixing everything after a copy-save action.   Afficher plus

Hi,   i think the features in the treeview could really use their own folder like sketches, construction and bodies. The treeview get's completely cluttered on bigger assemblies when the feature lists grow and you often completely don't need them. Which is great for sketches and others should be there for features, too. 😉 Afficher plus

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?     Afficher plus

Hi All,   Please let me take an advantage of this great forum to get feedback to an idea of doing a Bolted Connection tool for Fusion.   Here is a link to video that demonstrates the proposal: http://youtu.be/7ev8vtVPY3A. The idea is simple: provide one click solution for modeling productivity. Simple UI and workflow optimized for Designers. Quick geometry generation, but no BOM (Bill Of Material) data.     I’m leading a small development team in Autodesk that just joined the Fusion family to help to make it even more successful. There is nothing better than getting feedback directly from You – Fusion users. Please take a look at the video and let me know your opinions, suggestions and thoughts. I would really appreciate it.   (If that kind of direct communication between development and customer community would be interesting to you I may be setting up a blog here – we did also a proposal for Gear tool that would quickly produce gears with exact geometry ready for 3D printing and some other interesting stuff.)   Thanks for your time, Vasek Afficher plus

Before Fusion 360 was available, I tried out Autodesk's "123D Beta" which appeared to be the predecessor to Fusion 360.  It had a "Full Navigation Wheel" which I thought was very useful (see attached image).  Besides letting you navigate with only your mouse, it had other cool features such as "Rewind" that let you scroll through a series of selectable thumbnail views of your movement history, which was great when working with complex models and assemblies.  Is there a chance it will be incorporated into Fusion 360, even if it is just a selectable option?   Also, the RMB menu in 123D Beta included "Turntable" which created a customizable model rotation animation with ".avi" export (even though I had some troubles exporting).  This would be very handy, especially when sending a 3D design to non-design people for visualization, without requiring them to have a CAD system to view the animated model. Afficher plus

It would be great to have the ability to drag and drop cad data from a local drive directly into a open design window as a way of inserting a new body or componant. This would be useful for things like inserting fasteners into an assembly or where manufacture has a cad library of their parts and you want to easily insert one of them into your design. Afficher plus

A multi-row timeline representation that shows all independent events as a new row with new events that depend on previous ones stacked from left to right (helpful as a user interface and as an optimization for the internal program flow). Afficher plus

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.     Afficher plus

It looks to me that Fusion on the Mac at least is single threaded when you convert a poly mesh to TS.   The screenshot below shows you that only 12.5% so just one core of my 8 core Xeon MacPro is doing the work. 7 cores are bored.   Specifically when you work and sculpt with for T Splines heavy poly meshes this is a long drag when you need to wait extra long for the conversation. Afficher plus

I thought it would be really good to have any componant that is imported/inserted into another remain linked to the original file so that any updates that are made flow through to an assembly etc. This would be esspecially important if you are collaberating with others on a design.   Also it would be great to be able to insert a parametric design into one that is not. This feature doesn't currently seem to be supported.     Afficher plus

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.   Afficher plus

Hi, today I played with the section analysis and found out one problem. If two bodies are positioned side by side and you do a section analysis you cannot distinguish the two bodies anymore. (see image below) The cut surfaces are presented using the same material, even if both bodies have a different material. It would be great if the cut surface shows different materials as well. Further more there is no edge visible between the two bodies so it looks like it is one body weld together. Another feature I would like to have is to create one single section analysis for each body / component. So the cut surface you can set for each body on a different position.       Thanks!   Afficher plus

I would love if the spacebar repeated the last command, especially when I'm working on sketches. Where I really notice this is with trim / extend and fillet. Trim a line, rmb > repeat traim, trim a line, rmb > repeat trim.... if only I could just hit the spacebar like I do with AutoCAD and Inventor! Afficher plus

Add a way to increment / decrement values uisng the up arrow / down arrow on the keyboard.   E.g. if you want to move up a body you use the move tool, pick the arrow with the mouse and move up. Or you enter a value in the small popup box. But sometimes I want a more precise way to move / rotate / scale objects.   What I would like to have is that if the small popup appears (where you can manually enter a value) that automatically the up arrow / down arrow can be used to increment / decrement the value by 1. If simoultanously SHIFT is pressed then the increment / decrement happens by a value of 0.1. Afficher plus

Most of the time, I want 3D sketching turned off. It's too easy to inadvertently snap to an object off the intended plane. Even when I'm doing a 3D sketch, I usually want to start out constrained to the workplane.    The ability to toggle 3D sketching vs. constrained to workplane should, it seems to me, be located in the sketch menu, not accessed through opening preferences. It's unnecessarily involved to switch back and forth, and it's not obvious to new users how to do it.   Ron Afficher plus

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. Afficher plus

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!     Afficher plus

Hi,   I would like to have the possibility to rename the icons in the timeline. It is very comfortable to rename the bodies, components, etc. in the browser. The same I need for the timeline. If you have several 'Form' icon they are just named as 'Form 1', 'Form 2', 'Form 3'. etc..  Better would be an individual name I can set so it would be easier to find / distinguish. Thanks!   Afficher plus

Hi,   it would be great if a feature exist where I can see how many bodies, faces / edges / vertices currently are selected. Sometimes e.g. a backface is hidden behind by a front face and one cannot see immediately if it is selected or not. If there is an information how many bodies, faces / edges / vertices are selected this could help a lot to judge if everything what you want to select is selected. Sometimes it is also important if even or odd numbers of bodies, faces / edges / vertices is selected. Thanks!     Afficher plus

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.   Afficher plus

  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!   Afficher plus

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. Afficher plus

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. Afficher plus

As a user you create data for yourself or custom data for a client, so as the person generating the data you really want to be able to exchange the data in most common forms. BRep is already well supported, mesh data not yet.     TS Data: Fusion to local backup, TS in Rhino or SW or Fusion of a different user     OBJ Data: OBJ/Fusion mesh to local backup, professional render program, other TS user Fusion, similar TS software user Afficher plus

Hi there,   I am not sure if this is possible but because of the current instability of Fusion crashing multiple times per hour I ran fw times into the situation that after working for a long time after a crash nothing is there.   For over half an hour I was testing some tools and after a crash Fusion recovered an empty scene for me.   Would it be possible to save more often and faster local and then in slower intervals push the data to the cloud? Afficher plus

Hi there,   I just noticed that when you swap out the TS mesh most of the design features will work like move and split surface. Just commands like Fillet break. I am not sure if there is an ability to auto redefine the resulting edge for the fillet command.   Here is a screencast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2dVFqR2NVRFhjRjA/edit?usp=sharing Afficher plus

It looks like when Fusion imports OBJ data that the position of the mesh is being ignored centereing objects in the world space.   This is not an ideal situation. When I have 3D data in a different application I would like to remain the position of all the mesh data when importing object by object into Fusion.   External app - pay attention to where the meshes are:   Fusion: both meshes imported in two steps are centered in the world xyz = 0. Afficher plus

  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 Afficher plus

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 Afficher plus

Currently   there is only a clear symetry command which removes the function by applying/baking it.   However not always do you want to apply the new geometry.   Sometimes you also just want to turn visibility off so you can look into the object/product. And when investigated anough you want to turn visibility on again.   So the clear symetry function should have the folllowing options:   Apply (currently implemented) Remove (result is origninal half model) Hide/Show (temp turn off/on) Afficher plus

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 Afficher plus

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 Afficher plus

Hi Folks,   The object browser lists in object mode the result of the design time line and the timeline shows you the different steps you took.   But when you enter edit mode for one TS object it can get very annoying that all TS meshes and OBJ inputs are shown.   Could you implement a filter that you will only see the TS/obj mesh from the TS command selected in the timeline?   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2SHhuMUVBdktBYlk/edit?usp=sharing Afficher plus