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 Show More

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) Show More

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 Show More

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 Show More

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 Show More

The «Move» tool is nice.. but I very often find myself needing to either center something or rotate something around a specific axis (one of the three global axes or a shaft / etc).   Maybe something like that already exists but it seems at the moment that the best I can do is awkwardly drag the handles and hope that the parts don't move instead of the basis (and even then it seems to dislike doing things precisely which is ok for sketching but horrible for engineering 🙂 Show More

Hi there,   the previous workflow of:   import obj convert to TS convert to BRep can be useful for a single object but is very annying when working with many objects   the last beta had a workflow where you import the obj mesh and when leaving the TS mode it auto converted it to BRep   That was perfect please keep it. Show More

What about using parameters + direct modeling? I am making parametric configurable models and the timeline is not needed. Show More

Now Fusion have a very useful pattern tool, it's possible path for further development. Like the Modo's replication tool with randomizable parameters (or the more complex grasshopper for Rhino). Show More

The SVG import in sketches is great but we've had a lot of issues importing SVGs generated by Adobe Illustrator. If you have a coding intern who needs a project, perhaps going in there and making a few reference designs with text and curves then exporting to SVG with as many combinations of options possible and getting the importer to correctly support those files (and make failing non-silent) would be very worthwhile and appreciated.   Separate but related - a built in autovectorization system might be very cool (although a bit harder.. though I think Autodesk actually has a library for it prebuilt if you poke around). This would be especially useful for people who don't understand the difference between bitmap and vector formats (getting a rough vector approximation of bitmapped black on white text or logos would be nice) and I'm sure there are plenty of hobbiests out there with 3D printers in search of something to do with them who would love to be able to take a photograph, play with the edge detection and vectorization parameters, and then make some cool 3D structures out of that. Show More

Minor disclaimer - I'm not certain that this was a timeline propagation issue /but/ last night I had a bit of an issue with a modestly complex design.   We embossed a bit of text onto a component, went forward with a bit more design work then went back to make some changes to the text. Basically every change to the sketch (including things like adding a line or moving / editing text) was causing Fusion 360 to hang for ~1-2 minutes. I /think/ this might be due to the changes propagating forward through the timeline, in which case, it could be avoided by allowing the user to make changes and waiting until they are done to propagate (at least if that's the issue, that would coalesce a bunch of delays into a single one).   Probably not worth sharing but I actually got annoyed enough to record a ~7.5 minute video showing more or less add line (1-2 minutes of beachball) edit text (1-2 minutes of beachball) move text (~1-2 minutes of beachball) and so on. Show More

I've found that very often spending just ~5-10 minutes talking with a manufacturer about something will save countless hours of redesign or much more complicated (and expensive) tooling.   This is probably at least a semi-duplicate suggestion, but It'd be great (especially for hobbiests and start-ups) if there were a simple way to share a lot of that knowledge and to have people with manufacturing experience comment on designs and suggest alternatives to improve manufacturability. Show More

The text in sketches is great but there are a few minor tweaks that would make it much better.   First - text positioning and autosizing. Basically letting a user put a box where the text should go, enter it, and then have it adjust the point size to fit the text within the boundary. In the box, there could also be options to center, right, and left justify.   Second - improved font support. I don't know how well it works in Windows, but if I use a font from http://tenbytwenty.com/?xxxxtags=fonts I can select the font in Fusion 360 but it doesn't render to an outline and can't be used to emboss.   Finally, it'd be great if there were a level of detail option which could turn on and off things with lots of detailed features (gears, text, etc.) to improve interactive performance  Show More

It seems that saving lots of versions to avoid data loss can actually lead to annoyance (if not data loss).   As far as I can tell, the versions appear to be getting pushed into cloud storage and the timeline in chronological order. When the snapshots are large (and presumably on slow or unreliable networks or in the presence of other issues are present) those uploads can be extremely slow (order of minutes per version).   If some user has had a long and frustrating several days fighting with a crashy app then they might become very distressed and frustrated by seeing a long list of outdated versions of their work after the app crashes and is restarted and crashes on load and restarts and crashes one more time for good measure and restarts again (purely hypothetically speaking, of course).   Such a user might begin to wonder if they can really trust the app and cloud storage's data integrity and they might begin conducting experimental tests of the aerodynamicity of MacBook Airs.   One possible way to mitigate such a situation would be to preferentially upload the most recent version and then upload previous versions in reverse chronological order (ideally just uploading smaller compressed deltas from the last successful upload to ensure that file size is more reasonable) Show More

I'm not sure what's going on here but in addition to just crashing (now going on a hundred times in the last day or two alone), the version history seems to be broken.     Becasue of all of the crashing, I've been saving versions roughly every 30s to couple of minutes but (a) many of those aren't appearing in the version history list, (b) the last hour or two of versions are gone and (c) things that are an hour or two old are being listed as a few minutes ago.   Show More

senddmp has been behaving much better lately but it's still occassionally freezing with the app getting stuck in this state.   Show More

Low priority but it'd be great if the version history used an endless scroll (autopull new pages) rather than vanilla pagination. Show More

It'd help a lot with troubleshooting and debugging if the Fusion 360 crash reporter actually triggered with every crash rather than just randomly at a rate of under one in ~ten. Show More

The title kinda says it all. Basically this feature would just be something that would allow me to go back to a previous version to retrieve a component that I spent awhile working on but then randomly disappeared, and then saving that as a new design or copying it or basically having any way at all to pull it out without having to redesign the thing even though I've already wasted more time trying to get it back than it would have taken to redesign in the first place NOT THAT I'M ANNOYED OR IN ANY WAY EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED AT THE MOMENT. Show More

It'd be awesome to be able to quickly go back into a previous version, grab a component that mysteriously disappeared (due to a crash or whatever other unknown reason) and bring it back into the current version without having to go through the whole process of promoting a past version (whcih, in addition to being annoying, non-obvious, and needlessly many steps, just psychologically feels a bit like you're risking losing all of the work that you've done since that version - and that's very much not a feeling you should be instilling into users who are already annoyed at losing work). Show More

This is not an idea, per se, and I'm not sure if it's just that Fusion 360 is crashing so often or if it's some sort of data corruption but I keep losing parts after putting a couple hours into them.   That's fine (albeit EXTRORDINARILY ANNOYING and FRUSTRATING) for an application that I'm not paying for but it seems to me that those are pretty major issues for an app that you want to start charging anything for 🙂   I'm not saying you shouldn't start charging.. but I do think you should do a complete freeze on new feature development and spend at least a couple of months focused on stability and data integrity.   When it works, it's amazing and a huge time saver.. when it doesn't, it's madening. Show More

I really don't understand this but I've noticed that often when I drop something into a design and then move it, the component /looks/ like it's in the right place but then when I try to do something like align a plan to its surface, it's actually back where it randomly dropped in (read: very much not where I wanted it to be)   I'm not sure if that's a bug or a misfeature but it'd be nice to at least have the option to be able to start sketching in the plane defined by where the surface of a component appears to be in a design.     Note that that blue construction plane (upper left) is actually on the surface of that mounting reference body (lower right).. or at least it should be and that's where I wanted it to go. Show More

The parametric timeline view is great but it suggests another, literal timeline that would be extremely handy.   You could in principle already achieve this with the timeline by dropping parts into an assembly in a specific order and putting them together that way (which incidentally is still a slower and more frustrating process than it should be), but it'd be great to be able to just create a big project (like «Model S»), build up everything from the ground up, and have an easy way to coalesce  independently manufactured components into their own single point in the assembly timeline (that way, a user can drop in «steering wheel» as a single point in the timeline but drill into it and make changes to the details of specifically that component or its interfaces to the rest of the assembly when needed). Show More

This is something that we do already but it'd be a nice convienence utility that you could cook into Fusion 360.   Basically it would just be a way to describe things like «this hole is for a screw and we need to be sure that nothing will interfere with that in the assembly up to some stage».   A simple example is that we need to put screws into a handle which lookx something like   (basically just a flat surface with an arch over it)   Those holes have to be placed in such a way that a person or robot can easily insert and tighten them. Not a hugely complicated process but if you're not careful, it's easy to get them too close to the handle in a way that the handle interferes with the tools, and this sort of thing is trivial to fix if caught early in the design process (and moreso if it's codified into the design, itself, as a form of documentation and parameteric control).   All that needs to be added is a way to programatically put in excluded space for tool access (actually also if there were separate from the design timeline, an «assembly» timeline, it'd be amazing if you could just put those constraints and clearances precisely where you need them in the process so if you're building a complex assembly like a car transmission, you could get the assistance in design for manufacture at precisely the stage where you need it). Show More

Sorry if this gets a bit terse - I had a draft of a much longer one but it got lost because I threw together another one in a separate tab before finishing that 😕   -----   Basically we're running into two related issues with the history and parameteric modeling. We find it useful to make lots of intermediate sketches and when making a design and then clean those up when we're done with them (if only because the browser becomes unwieldy when there are hundreds of sketches and bodies).   The problem is that when we delete things, constraints and user defined parameters and equations that we spent a long time building in break, and deleting bodies or objects seems to delete them from history which can ruin designs that are based on boolean combinations of things that no longer exist.   The second issue can be easily fixed simply by adding an archive / recycle bin where things that the user deletes go rather than just destroying the data structures and leaving us with yellow tiles in the roll and warnings that Fusion is using a cache because something no longer exists (something that was particularly annoying and destructive before we realized what was happening).   The first (and really everything to do with parametric design) can and should be fixed by retaining every relationship that a user sets up and never breaking them unless the user explicitly and deliberately does that.   Minor anecdote but I spent a couple days building up a parameteric design and have a page full of user defined parameters that I thought would magically let me transform our design at will. That worked well at first so I trusted it would continue to function, kept building, and then after hours of additional work, I discovered that changing most of my parameters now does nothing. I understand that some relationships might be difficult to maintain but if I'm just specifying that the thickness of something be something like shell_wall_thickness, or some simple algebraic fomula (a + b/2) that should always just work and never be collapsed to whatever the numeric value of that value is (unless that's /really/ what I want.. and I honestly can't imagine a scenario when that would be what I'd want if I went to the trouble of setting it up in the first place so even doing it manually seems insane). Show More

Very often in assemblies it's important that parts fit together and not overlap.   It'd be great if there were a way to have interference (ideally with the ability to specify positive or negative tolerances) automatically checked while we're designing.   I'd love it even more if whenever we're doing something like pulling a face, we could just snap that face to other bodies to bring them just into a specified tolerance (again positive or negative to allow for free or guided motion and interference fits). Show More

There should be something in place to quickly identify which joints are locked. There isn't currently anything in the browser so I just ended up going joint by joint. My vote would be for a browser badge icon like grounded components. It could be a small lock of some type. Show More

Add the ability to convert sketch figures into centerlines. Next, add the the ability to convert corresponding dimensions associated with any centerline figure to become a diametrical dimension. Note, when placing a linear dimension between a regular sketch figure and the sketch centerline, the dimension automatically converts to a diametrical dimension. I've included a screenshot of some linear diameter dimensions from the Inventor 2014 sketch work space for reference.    Reference the following conversation for further detail.   http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Get-Help-with-Fusion-360/Diamter-dimension-for-relvove/td-p/4786779   Show More

Hi folks,   although i understand the technical reason behind i think the export currently isn't the best user experience. You have to find your file in the dashboard, choose export from the toolbox, choose a name and format and at the end you don't get the file but have to wait until the cloud based export renderer get's your export finished. Of course the latter part doesn't take that long normally but you still have to wait or most likey switch to other tasks until you get notified about the finished export.   (actually i'm waiting for an export to get finished while i write these lines.)   When the export is finished you have to go back, find the exported file in the dashboard and download it.   How about offering the option in the export dialog to directly send the exported file with the notification email or instead of it. Maybe this won't be a big deal for some of you but i would find that extremely helpful and i think it should not be too hard to implement. Show More

Hi there,   I was asked to post to this forum to give my feedback on a workflow for dealing with STL file conversion.  As 3D printing gains in popularity, dealing with these files will become more and more important.  Additionally, I am aware of the BMesh tool that can convert smaller STL files, but also, as 3D printing gains in popularity, so will 3D scanning.  My 3D scans range from 500K polygons, up to 2.5M polygons, which is outside what you suggest for the BMesh tool.  Here is my suggested workflow:   -import .OBJ or .STL -load it into the creation tool -give simple commands (similar to the ones in SketchUp) that allow me to "help" your program deal with the mesh.  Allow me to draw planes, circles, polygons as individual areas with "generally" the right curves, angles, etc. using the same deformation tools as in the main Fusion program -have each drawn plane "snap" to points on the STL in a general sense.  Have the new drawn plane "color" the STL so I know what have covered and what I have not -snap surfaces near each other together to make them contiguous, maybe use a knife tool to split them if you need to -have Fusion convert those items into parametric surfaces   ...the key here is that the program should leverage the human's understanding of what they want to give hints to the program.  Even if I scan things that are extremely complex, I would not mind going through and adding in surface data manually, if it gave a good result. Show More

Now that we have parametrics. Can we have 2D, and 3D equation driven curves like in Inventor?   I am thinking specifically of a helical gear for a small example. We could use a 2D equation curve to generate the involute, or cycloid curve of the gear tooth profile. Next we can us the 3D equation curve to generate a custom helical curve to sweep our custom 2D curve along it to cut the tooth profile. There are a great deal more applications for an equation curve of course. I just thought of the helical gear as something we could all get behind. Just think about how difficult it would be to model an accurate helical gear with an involute gear profile in Fusion as it stands. Now think of a cycloidal tooth profile. Possible...sure -difficult...YES! I haven't tried yet, but I'm guessing it would take 2 complex profiles, a loft, and a whole lot of trig.  Show More

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

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

(some additional thoughts came to my mind besides the where to put imported files to i already suggested here: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Fusion-360-IdeaStation-Request-a/Upload-directly-into-selected-folder/idi-p/4769263 )   I wonder if there's a way to switch this of already but as i regulary import files into Fusion360 i get treated by this rather often.   Importing files most of the time works great which is fantastic of course and is caused by a great importer - kudos to the team for that.   But. Whenever i import 10 files i get:   - 10 "Alerts" telling me everything went well (sic!) - 10 Emails telling me everything went well - 10 PDF import reports in my activities timelines in the dashboard telling me... well.... quite nothing (but at least that everything went well).   In the single cases where imports failed i got:   - Alerts telling me that the import failed without giving a reason - Emails telling me that the import failed without giving a reason - PDF reports... well you got the point, right?   Could this be done anyhow smoother or is there probably a hidden switch to "avoid" this situation?   I personally would be totally fine with the progress bar only. The idea of the progress bar is great as you could roughly estimate how things are going. The icon changes its color if any progress is going on and i think you could also find a visual solution (like a colored exclamation mark inside the icon) if something fails.    I could completely go without emails, alerts and pdf reports. I'm fine with the reports if they just live inside the file details but i don't need them filling up my activity timeline.   After all: Less is more. period. 🙂 Show More

Hi,   uploading/importing in Fusion360 is getting better with the new dashboard. Also moving files around is now easier then ever. But there is still room to improve. I would find it insanely helpful if the upload could happen directly into a subfolder. This could either be the folder i'm in when i hit the upload button or be through a folder selection in the upload popup window next to entering a project.   I think both ways should be available and the folder where i'm in when hitting the button should be preselected in the popup windows.   What do you think? Show More

  It would be great having this feature present in 3DVia Composer.   It has a hotkey assigned so you can go ghosting parts that are under your mouse pointer. As soon as the pointer goes away from the part, it recovers its normal state. A ghosted part displays transparent and gets ignored in the selections.   It's a very efficient way of accessing parts inside an assembly without having to go hiding different parts and then showing them again because they are in the way.   Show More

Recently I'm always getting an error that says that my idea's body was changed because there was invalid HTML.. which is odd because I normally don't add any style (maybe a bug in the template ?) Show More

Some annoyances aside, ray tracing was working well enough for me in the previous Fusion 360, but in the beta preview I'm just getting image corruption [see enclosed].   Late 2010 MacBook Air (1.8GHz i7 w/ 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics 3000 w/ 384 MB) OS X 10.9.2 13C39 (though also present at least as early as the GM release of 10.9.1) Show More

Right now when you navigate through a group's data structure, you only see design names next to a Fusion's icon. It would be great having a thumbnail of the design right there instead of having to click on it in order to see it in the details window.   This is how it's done in the iPad app and avoids having to open each desing's details in order to find a particular part that you don't remember its name. Show More

This is a bit beyond the scope of Fusion 360 but it would be a spatially concurrent hardware description language that can describe complex assemblies.   Although the application is diferent, it could be modeled after Verilog where modules describe collections of function. In an initial / alpha version, it would just describe positioning, exclusion, and relative movement.   Assemblies would be described with formal specification that could be automatically combined with design rules and translated into physical hardware. Optimized part and assembly generation could then be implemented to allow for easy and automatic generation of metal stamping and injection molding dies, laser sintered or melted parts, and hand or automated assembly.   Synthesis could take into account clearnace for motion of components durring assembly and in the final assembly, noise and stiffness constraints for positioning, and so on.   Individual parts can be described in a 3D CAD system where the part, mount points, and clearances are specified as separate physical layers, and a 3D design tool (Fusion 360) can specify boundaries.   A typical workflow might look something like the following:    [product designer in Fusion 360] lays out the outer geometry of the product specifying soft feet, a metalic face, and a hard plastic surface.   [product engineer; probably in Fusion 360] selects stamped aluminum for the face, santoprene for the feet and glass filled nylon for the surface. Specifies that a NEMA 17 stepper be centrally located with the ability to move a component within a specified range. Fixes the mount points for the motor, specifies the location of a control board, battery, capacitive touch panel, etc. Specifies M3 bolt fasteners and a specific variety of plastic reversable rivets.   [design automation system] applies design rules for stampped aluminum to synthesize the stampped face. Uses rigidity and other constraints to determine the optimal material for the stamped face, thickness and geometric details of the injection molded santoprene and glass filled nylon parts, and the positioning and number of fasteners, and wiring design and routing.   [automated documentation system] generates technical drawings, tolerances, 3D parts, and assembly instructions to send to metal stamper, injection molder, integration, and testing suppliers.   [product designer in 360] makes significant changes to external geometry   [design automation systems] automatically generate updated complete assembly design and manufacturing instructions without requiring the intervention of other engineers beyond design validation. -------   Such a system could in principle be used to synthesize an optimal design for something as complex as a Boeing 777, and regulations (such as safety, ADA compliance, recyclability, etc) could be imposed as constraints. Once a complex design is built and certified, improvements in availiable materials and manufacturing techniques could be applied to generate completely new and dramatically improved parts and assembly processes. Show More

Hi,   though we just talked about this on the hangout i thought it might still be a good idea to write it down here.   The former weekly hangout is 2-weekly now and as this hangout is mostly not so learning centric, i thought it could be a good idea to shout out for some more learning every other week.   Maybe it would be nice if we could discuss possible topics and special needs of users in the forum and Mike, Keqing and Kat could find someone or possibly jump in theirselves on one or the other topic. This could be a good thing to allow some advanced training for the ones getting stuck in their work like we already had seen that on hangouts in the past. I think the potential of showing things in a presentation in this cases is much higher than in forums or written guides and in the case of advanced training even better than with prerecorded video (which is perfectly okay too).   People could also send in their projects/files for discussion in this hangouts like Ron suggested in the hangout. Show More

Sometimes it would be very helpful if I could make a sketch from section analysis. If the section analysis is enabled, the cross section is selectable as other objects in selection filters. Show More

Fusion by default smooths stl face normals when importing. This is great for smooth surfaces, but for planar surfaces gets very messy.   If you try to model a mechanical part from an stl, it gets very difficult to visualize the geometry with this shading. In other packages there is an option  of flat shading so you can see planar faces composed of many triangles as a single one.   This is how it is displayed in Fusion:     The same happens in blender when you have smooth normals on:     If you flatten normals, you get this:   Show More

Hey all,   hope you're having a great new year and wish you all health and success.   After that i came across something that should truely be improved in Fusion360 it is the stl export.   For one it would be great to have it export optionally in .obj format which is read and understood by more and more 3d print processing tools (aka slicers). obj format differs a bit from stl but has some advantages. It has a clear connection between mesh nodes so the stl interpreter doesn't have to guess the topology of the mesh. Autodesk product Meshmixer already exports obj by default so i guess this should be at least an option with the Fusion360 STL export, too.   On the other hand orientation is a real issue. We already talked about the "Y-axis up" default orientation in fusion which is kinda difficult if you work in a complete "Z-axis up" environment normally. This could be changed in fusion by rotation and resetting views and home position but it seems like fusion doesn't really change the way it handles things. First of all the thumbnail preview in the dashboard doesn't reflect this change in thumbnails and previews - it still orients with "Y-axis up" and also it exports to STL in the default orientation.   It would be great to have a simple orientation switch in fusion which would affect all the way orientation gets handled in preview and export too. Maybe a default setting (for me "Z-axis up" would be the selection in 99,9% of my projects).     Show More

When referring an external part to a host file, user can edit dynamic parameters, features and attributes. Show More

I prefer to export object by object and it would be great in general to be able to import multiple obj objects at once and not having to import one after the next. Show More

It would be a great help if Fusion would remember the previosuly sued folder when importing multiple objects / OBJ mesh files. Currently each time I import I have to manually browse to the directory.   Show More

It would be a great help if fusion would keep the original file name of what it imports instead of turning Lid.obj into something like MeshBodyXYZ.   Show More

The following situation is difficult for me to manage:   In a classroom where students work in their own account/hub I would like the following two:   Allow students to give me access to a file/homework without me having to log into their hub.   Allow us to create a project hub/page were everybody links a file they work on into.   Idealy this should be with selective read write permits so in case for a presentation a student only provides a share feature to see it / preview it / but not modify it. Show More

With Fusion360 aiming also hobbyists and makers with a free licence (among many other target audience groups of course) there should be a way to import files from sketchup. Sketchup (especially the free version) is one of the most widely used tools to create 3D (and sometimes even 2d due to it's dxf export with plugins) drawings for the maker scene. An importer could help fusion to attract even more people as sketchup could get really frustrating when your drawings start to get more complex where Fusion is much more powerful.   Show More

It would be nice if my shortcuts and environment settings were uniform regardless of what computer I'm using to access Fusion 360.    Similar but different: frequently I add new tools to the bar, but Fusion 360 will crash before I end up restarting the application (I tend to just leave Fusion up and running). Then I lose the tools I added and I'm always mildly irritated/annoyed with myself... Show More

When you create a sketch on a solid body, the edges of the solid have to be projected for them to be recognized. This is done automatically in Fusion 360, which can also be undesireable.   It would be great of the edges of the part were just available without having to project in geometry. Projecting geometry would still be a needed tool in some cases however. Show More

I'd like to be able to tell Fusion the type of fastener I am planning on using, and let it generate the proper hole based on that fastener spec. Based on the machinery handbook, but also a way to edit those specs if need be.         Show More

If I know the inputs I want to use to create a plane, work point, or axis, I don't want to have to pick that specific workflow from the list. I would like to say to Fusion that I want a plane, work point, or axis and I will pick the valid inputs to give me the plane, work point, axis I would like to create.    Example. If I chose a "top level" plane command and I selected a plane and an axis, that would result in a angular plane. If I chose a plane and cylindrial face, that would give me a tangent plane etc. No need to remove the specific choices from the list, just add an option for experienced users that don't need to choose a specific workflow each time they create workplanes, work points, or work axis'.  Show More

When a view is normal to an edge of a construction entity, you can't see it. You have to rotate your view slightly. It would be very helpful if you could see that edge when normal to it. Show More

Assembly files sizes can be deceiving since the assembly file may reference many other part files. The import command may be improved by adding a total file size calculator for assembly files and by also adding a cancel command. Show More

I was not able to figure out how to extrude an edge in sketch. My fault was I did not read the tool tip help text.   However fusion organized poly tools in an odd way. Extrude loft etc should be grouped with bridge subdivide ect.   All those command create geometry.   Further extrude should be applied not only to a face but also to an edge and vertex.   In blender e just extrudes geometry no matter what I have selected. Show More

Idea/request: Assign aliases to existing Fusion/Autodesk materials.   Why? There's already a big amount materials available in Fusion 360 and most of the time, for me in any case, it's just the name of the material that needs changing or tweaking. For example, Steel, Mild I'd like to see as MILD STEEL, but it doesn't really require a new file to be created, just a name and or description change since I'm happy with the density, appearance, etc.   How will it work? Make a table accessible in the Hub with columns showing the Autodesk names of all the Fusion 360 materials and columns showing my names (aliases) for those materials. If I leave an entry for, say, a material name in a row empty, then Fusion uses the Autodesk name, if it sees an entry for a name, it uses my alias. One could do the same for density and other physical properties.   In the 2D (drawings) environment, these aliases should show up in the Parts List (BOM).       Show More

Idea/request: Just a stop and or pause button for imports (uploads), similar to what Google Chrome has for downloads.   Why? I currently have a massive upload that is ongoing and have no way to stop it unless I unplug a cable or delete the original file on my PC.   Current workaround: What I'll probably have to do is to rename the original CAD file on my PC and replace it with a small (empty) CAD file of the same name, then let Fusion 360 do its thing and then I can delete the design from my Hub when the upload is finished. It's a bit of unnecessary effort for something that should be simple to do.   William   Win 7 64-bit, South Africa. -- Please mark this as Solved if it answered your question, other people may find it useful too. Show More

Hi folks,   for my workflow (using an external render engine) Fusion 360 needs a serious OBJ export including also the UV maps and best also with NGon support.   Currently I use MOI as a mesher because it is perfect at producing clean NGON meshes which are light weight and with perfect UV mapping.   Specifically when you are serious about prefection and accuracy in rendering uv texture mapping like wood grain direction etc. is a critical tool to communicate realism through a rendering.   STL export is just a plain 3d wire mesh without any UV mapping and the file size is much bigger.     OBJ export will also be a good idea to transfer data to other modelers or 3d applications just for further work not only rendering. Show More

Would love to get support for video creation and sharing from within F360! Show More

Every polygon modeler that knows the value of fluid edge creasing will miss this feature in T-Splines. Variable values for the creasing amount allow me to quickly explore certain edge rounding styles without having to commite to inserting actuall loop cuts which will only increase the model mesh needlessly.   Here is a screenshot from a game car I created as a demo piece for my students to show them an efficient workflow to explore certain body styling directions rapidly just with edge creasings.     The only way to get this body shell into Fusion would be to bake a high res mesh in Blender (the subdivision surface option allows 6 levels of refinement) however the higher the mesh res the better the details get baked but the less Fusion will be able to convert the OBJ mesh into T-Splines.   Here is a video that shows how the process works inside Blender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2-E-t8OvjY&list=PLO-CARrxyXozRrfAavzJjnyOvFHH45OjW&index=41     Enjoy 🙂   Claas Show More

I'd like to see more control over the way we see the visibility of constraints in a sketch. Currently they can be displayed, or not displayed. I'd like to be able to turn on or off their visibility by sketch entity or group of entities. Show More

I would like to see the ability to create a custom parts library, with a dashboard interface that allows me to categorize parts into folders.  For me, this might be electronic components I need to account for- connectors, headers, batteries, displays, etc. These are mostly not available from generic CAD model sources.  I either build them or get them direct from the manufacturer.   It's best if I can identify them by manufacturer's part #, but this isn't conducive to searching and placing given the current interface.  But most of us have parts we need to reuse over and over.  The current interface makes these very difficult to find.   This is related to an idea- or several- around file organization, for instance http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Request-a-Feature-Fusion-360/My-2-dashboard-cents-eat-it-or-not/idi-p/4528891.   These should ideally be under one umbrella.   Really need a way to link closely related ideas.  Show More

As you can see in Rhino I can quickly draw curves and trim / blend between them.   Currently Fusion offers spline and line arc tools. However as far as I know you cannot trim between a spline and a line. Also curve belnds are really really needed / handy.   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2RTFISDFXVDhiaGc/edit?usp=sharing Show More

Moving a flat object could be highlighted when viewed from the side   In this picture, I’m moving a construction plane up/down to get a nice slicing of the vehicle.   The trouble is, since planes are 2D I don’t see the plane, at all. However, viewing from the side makes sense to do this movement.   Suggestion:   - when a 2D feature is being moved and is being viewed in an angle making it disappear, highlight it as if it had some tangible height (i.e. show a 1 pixel thick line portraying the plane).         Show More

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

Information in profile www account http://fusion360.autodesk.com/my/profile/edit   Are not the same of the Fusion 360 app   Will be great if profile of   360.autodesk.com autocadws.com Fusion 360 app ... and other services   Will be merged into one.   Link to the related help request  Show More

( I'm placing this here though the time span of such a change is probably within 1-2 years. )   In the first two texts (1st: Tackling the Materials), I've tried to analyze the current Fusion 360 Materials handling and found it very complex and hard to work with.   The basic problems seem to arise from a legacy approach that has been shoehorned into the supposedly cloud-based Fusion 360 workflow.   To solve the problem, the Materials management should be completely revised, using both the native client UI and the browser-based web UI approaches.   Cloud side   The Fusion 360 Dashboard is already living in the cloud (though it also lives in the native app, when online). A similar approach can be taken for materials, having a dedicated web page for a user's materials handling. This web page would cover what the current 'Material Browser' does - management, grouping, import and export of materials. It would also merge the 'Download Materials' functionality seamlessly in, so that there would be only one page to manage materials, not two as in the current implementation ('Material Browser' in the edit space and 'Exchange Material' as a separate tab).   Current state:           The new 'Material Hub' page would merge the two approaches in taking the visual approach of the current browser, further developing it strongly (more game-like, flatter UI, faster) and the web-based approach of the 'Exchange Material' tab.   ( I'm not proposing a UI mock-up here. It can be done if needed. )   Support for (Intranet) material libraries   Some current features in 'Material Browser' use locally stored files and show them in the UI. i.e.:   ~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/Common/Material Library/<..hex id..>/assetlibrary_base.fbm/1/Mats/Finishes.Laminate.CarbonFiber[.Bump].jpg ~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/webdeploy/<..hex id..>/*.adsklib   The .adsklib files are binary and are used also by other Autodesk products (at least Revit and Inventor). I'm not fully aware of the intended cross-application use scenario for them (guessing sharing of materials in a corporation's network drive).   The same case of handling material libraries would occur with also other data formats. Fusion 360 is good in importing almost any design formats in, so it could also be good in integrating with 3rd party material libraries. Let's see how this could be done.   1. Corporation hosted material browser page   For the Dashboard I've suggested eventually allowing corporations, or private users, to have their own tweaked Dashboard pages (here). If a similar approach were taken for material browser, it would be easy to have plugins that watch (or even write to) any material library formats that the particular corporation hosts. This would keep the material files sealed within the organization's Intranet, which may be seen beneficial for many.   2. Tying libraries to the Autodesk cloud   Another approach could be to have local processes in the Intranet, which would sync changes to binary material libraries to some Autodesk 360 account, where the materials could then be shared using the normal Dashboard mechanisms. This would expose corporate libraries to the cloud, but presumably keep them private (the same as using cloud in general).   What's common to both these approaches is unification of corporate material libraries with those available by default (or via the Exchange) from Autodesk. All material management issues are pushed to the single-page Material Browser web page.   Client side   Selecting materials for particular design pieces should be way easier than it now is. The client side 'Material Browser' dialog can go, completely (this is "flattening the UI").   Instead, use a similar tree-form browser as the current … emm … Browser in the UI (the Browser could be rechristened i.e. to 'Elements').   Such a 'Materials' browser tree could be like:   Settings     allowing visibility of all, or only physical materials, and maybe some other filters Favourites     duplicate leaves for the materials actually preferred (not the same as current 'Favourites') Autodesk Material Library     (the same as in current Materials Browser)   Flooring         materials of that category   Glass My Library     (any custom libraries)   Custom libraries should be stored in the cloud, not locally (as now). I.e. they should be visible across any computers I use Fusion 360 or Autodesk 360 on. They - like other material libraries - should show on the Material Hub web page.   Use case: changing a material of certain elements   1. select the elements 2. open the 'Materials' browser tree 3. hover over the material leaves preview of the particular material, applied to the selected elements will occur   To not do a change, cancel the selection without clicking on material leaves.   To make a change, click on a material leave. It applies the particular material to the selected elements.   Use case: customize a certain element's material (i.e. color, scaling or rotation change)   The current 'Edit > Material' control would turn (be reduced) into this.    The tabs would be gone, and only the 'Adjust' feature remain.     The preview can be done only within this dialog, or here and the actual model (there could be a checkbox for that - maybe not updating the whole model gives performance benefits for large models?)   Also, there could be a way to store multiple 'shots' (like in OS X Photo Booth), out of which one would pick the best one.   'Picker' would actually not be needed, since selecting the elements would happen before entering the dialog. However, it's left here because the current Fusion 360 UI does not work that way (it requires one to first launch the dialog, then use Picker or Select to select the elements to work on). ( Personally, I have problems with current Material Adjust, so it might not even work that way. Sometimes, I'm just not able to get changes applied. )   There could also be a 'store' option for storing the modified material as a leaf in one of the libraries in the Material Browser. One cannot store only in Favourites because Favourites would be links to materials in actual libraries - not a library of its own as it currently seems to behave. The 'store' option would ask for the library, the material name (with a nice modified default), and whether to add the material in Favourites as well. All other material management would happen via the Materials Hub online.   Editing materials within the native client   One could allow right-clicking the material entries in the Materials browser tree, and opening a dialog similar to what's in the current Material Browser dialog.    This would allow edits to the material library, from the client. Similarly, moving materials among libraries, renaming, adding to Favourites could be possible right here. Such changes would either happen atomically (preferred) or be tied together into a transaction that either happens all-in-one or not at all (the current Material Browser suggests this with its 'edit lock').   If 'edit lock' is needed, the state of such should be indicated in real time within the Materials browser tree. Having claimed the lock myself would radically change the looks (i.e. background coloring of the leaves) of the tree so that I realize something urgent is happening and I better finish it up quickly.   Offline mode   At least 'Adjust material' should be available also in offline mode, and all the libraries remain available (as read-only). Ability to modify libraries from within the client (renames, moves etc.) can presumably be left to require online connection (otherwise there exists the problem of conflicting edits of the same material - that would be found out only possibly much later). If needed, also such edits can be implemented using splitting of conflicting edits to two new materials.   Summary   Material handling as presented here would:   - flatten the current Fusion 360 'Material Browser' UI, by placing most of it on the cloud (= in the separate Material Hub web page or in-app tab) - ease the common work flows (picking, applying, adjusting and managing materials) - make the division of client vs. cloud responsibilities clearer - eliminate the problems associated with Intranet level material library support in a cloud based product (i.e. no exposure to local file paths)   Show More

Hi There,   Can we please have the ability to rename joint origin instances.   When inserting parts into a design, and using the browser to select joints, if I have multiple joints for various important embedding / connection points, then I cannot tell which is which from the browser.   So for example if I had joint origins I had renamed to "surface flush" and "On surface" then my assemble joint workflow via the browser heirachy would be far easier.   Thanks. Show More

Hey,   "place" like it was known until 1.8.604 or "insert" how it is called now is one great feature of fusion360 i regullary use. Though i would love to see some small improvements on this feature.   i'd love to see a representation of my data structure in the window. The search form is great but really looks a bit beta. Apart from the difference to the rest of the Fusion360 UI (like many other features that differ UI design wise) it says "searching..." before i type anything and stops searching after a few seconds without finding anything. Well of course it can't find anything as it is only supposed to show search results. It would be great to see the folders and files like i see them on the data tab in my hub - this would make things easier to import if i don't know how i named the drawing or even a part of it. Well more 1b) than 2) ... i'd like to be able to import components from other drawings instead of the whole drawing. I see this could be more complicated to realise but it would allow me to have a set of similar stuff inside one Drawing as different components (which would have other advantages in many cases as you could easily share geometry between similar parts) but only import one of them. Of course this should be optional because sometimes you want to insert the whole bunch of components at once. Selecting a top node in the browser of the target file and importing everything that is under that node would be a great solution i think. When inserting anything don't just insert it at the origin of the document but make it easier for me to find or move it. In my more complex drawings when i'm zoomed in to one part of the drawing and insert one of my components to use it there... let's say a screw i have to zoom all out or use the home view function to move that part over to where i need it and zoom in again. There should be an option to place it from the mouse pointer like you do when you reorient the move-command. I wanted to test things a bit more to see if i remember everything correct but right now the insert function doesn't work at all - it just doesn't find anything 😞 (Saturday, 11:46 UTC) Show More

Hey all,   this should be more a discussion basic than a de facto idea. It's all about "the rest of Fusion360" - means everything besides the actual software itself which is your Dashboard.   First of all let me state one important note that i beg to remember througout this post: I'm totally fine with cloud saving and handling of files and don't want to have anything completely offline. I just wanted to make this clear at the beginning.   ...but 😉   After weeks of working with Fusion360 i can't get used to what you call the dashboard and the way files and other content gets handled. Though i get your idea i still feel completely uncomfortable when importing files, moving files around, renaming drawings,.. .well i think stuff that you do every day on normal software and you also do on cloud software. My main concern is the fact that the complete Web Application is more like simple web pages than what could be a web application in times of HTML5, CSS3 and modern JS. Pages sometimes load long, Popup windows even longer and don't even think of having a small network problem while you're trying to fiddle around in the dashboard.   I think there could be a way to handle this smarter. You should be able to create a web app that is fun to work with. A web app that is more of an application than a website. I know that data should be in sync asap and i also know that this is difficult to achieve but i also think (caution it's getting technical) it doesn't need page loads when clicking through folder structures. You sould load the structure (XML, json, whatever) and store it locally and only submit changes to the server. Then browsing could completely be done locally and when someone renames a files, creates a new one or whatever this could be sent to the server. Conflict handling should still be possible this way (.e.g. "renaming failed, someone else already renamed the file faster than you - go get some power ups to be faster next time"). Also all the UI stuff is of course great to do in HTML5 these days but this could all be stored locally and have only json calls or something else do the job to get fresh content data from the server or write data back to the server.    /end technical   This would make using Fusion360 a snap and not to be seperated from a completely local app. Data loading could much more be done in the background and there would be much less waiting for pages to load.   And if you're already there rebuilding the dashboard: Please update it's design too. Unfortunately it really looks like this early 21st century web portal software with left sidebar, content, right sidebar. Theres so great design ideas everywhere...    I hope you guys don't get that all wrong - you're doing such a great job and Fusion360 is way the best solution that i've seen so far (well at least for what i need) and the way you listen to users is just amazing and will be a good example for other ones that are far behind Autodesk in this part - i'm sure. I just hope to shake some minds with my post - i guess there's lots of room for improvement still and as good as we all are we can still get better.   Show More

This one is not harmful, but might need fixing at some point.    The Cmd-Ctrl-3 and Cmd-Ctrl-4 keys are standard shortcuts for taking screen grabs in OS X.    Utilizing them in a certain position in Fusion 360 has the unwanted effect of minimizing the 'offset plane' to hardly visible size. This only happens if the source for the plane is the coordinate plane, not i.e. if an edge of a box is being offset.   Steps:   1. Construct > Offset Plane.    Pick one of the coordinate planes and start dragging it.   2. Press Cmd + Ctrl keys (together), and release them.   Expected:   This should have no relevance to Fusion 360.   Actual:   The offset plane is minimized to really, really small size (but continues to work).       Notice that during the Cmd + Ctrl press (or i.e. taking a screenshot) the offset plane disappears. I needed to use the Capture tool to get the screenshots because of this. It's probably due to the application losing keyboard focus or something. This is fine: the offset plane is an interactive element and interactive elements can be hidden if the application is not topmost.   Show More

There's something weird with imported images.    Route A   1. Use 'Image > Attached Canvas' to bring in a picture   2. Right click the picture, select 'Move'       Expected:   The move controls should be enabled, allowing the image to be moved and scaled.   Actual:   A 'move dialog remains on the screen but nothing else.       Notice that one cannot select the canvas from the Browser, either (as the 'Selection' that is asked for).   Press Cancel.   Route B   Now, right click on the Browser at the particular Canvas. Select 'Move'.       The canvas can be moved.       Why shouldn't the same work right-clicking the canvas itself?   Why don't the move controls allow for scaling of the canvas? Could be because I've calibrated it? Nope - the same happens also for just imported images. One can zoom them only during the import. Why?   My selection filters had everything enabled, including 'Canvas'.     Look At doesn't work with Canvas - why?   'Look At' feature (either from the Zoom/Pan minibar or by right clicking i.e. a sketch) is a handy feature to get a right angled view of a plane.   Why aren't they available for canvases? (i.e. no right click entry in the Browser)   Version: 1.8.604   btw, you should add 'Browser' and maybe also version numbers to the Idea Labels. How are we differentiating versions now that we get 'Sep' and 'Dec' releases?     Addendum   Doing more tests, I noticed this:     I had imported a new image to the right (the little speck), ended the import.   Then zoomed to see the image, and took 'move', right-clicking in the browser.    No move controls anywhere.   Until I zoom out and find them at the origin? What the hell? Show More