In light of today's events (see post here), I believe it would be beneficial to allow users to locally store all Fusion files and data.  The data can still be backed up to the server, but is locally stored first.  This would prevent server outages from becoming catastrophic events for businesses, schools, and individuals.  If users did not want to locally store files (due to disk space or other reasons), they could elect not to in Fusion's preferences.  Or perhaps this could be a setting for each folder or project.   Manually, individually backing up files (a current Fusion capability) is not a reasonable solution to this problem.  Not only is it time-consuming and difficult to manage well, it does not currently work for designs that have XREFs.   I personally have no problem using the cloud for storage and computing (such as simulations).  There are some great things that Fusion allows because of this capability.  The lack of local storage as a backup, however, is an issue for me. Show More

DARK MODE PLEEEASSEEE lol. help my poor eyes. Show More

Hi, I dont think I need to add anything to this. I really think that this is missing from Fusion. I know there is a workarnound through Inkscape, but thats not really a solution. Fusion should have this option in Text creating.   1. Create curve 2. Apply text to it   Show More

I personally think to add a dark mode to fusion 360 is a great idea, as many users who use Fusion 360 are staring into there monitors/screen for a long period of time and I believe this feature would reduce eye strain and it would also give fusion a classic look and feel, and also let the user the option of how dark and light they what there UI to be. (Example below)   if this is not possible an alternative feature could be a blue light filter which also reduces eye strain.   For example Adobe CC products -      Show More

Hi everyone, While designing a product that made use of a similar mechanism to a retractable pen I realized there was no way for me to draw correctly! Therefore I would like to request new functionality that will help us out working with curved surfaces: The retractable pen mechanism makes use of a surface which is extruded from the center of the shaft outwards. To be able to create something like this we will need a function to wrap a 2D sketch around a 3D object such as a cylinder, then the extrude function will need to be able to extrude perpendicular to the surface of the wrapped sketch. I believe that for many curved models we will need additional functionality to be able to draw these designs with Fusion 360. To illustrate how common these situations actually are I've put together a few examples:   To wrap a sketch around a curved surface will not only give us the possibility to create rotational mechanisms such as the pen and the bayonet coupling, but it will also create the possibility to emboss and create custom threads easily!  I realize that some of the above examples can be made using some tricks that make it look like it is correct, but please realize that as long as we cannot extrude perpendicular to a curved surface; the angles of our extrusion will be all wrong. See the following illustration, left would be the situation I suggest vs. the current situation on the right:   Please let me know what you think and feel free to add any suggestion!   Show More

Hi, Fusion 360 can't create dimensions on isometric view on drawing. And I would be really glad for seeing this feature in Fusion. I attached Image of what I think would be nice to have. The drawing image below is created in Inventor, not Fusion.   Thx, Matt         Show More

I have multiple CNC machines and would love to see nesting. I currently use Alpha Cam, Router Cim, Xilog, and Holzher Hops to program all my different machines. I think Fusion is ripe for being able to tap into this sector of machining. The ability to share, and posts and all the other features have me chomping at the bit. I have made programs with it on one of my routers, but it would be great to create one nest, and be able to tool it and post depending on what machine I want to send it to. Huge time saver, since the actual nesting takes the most time finding the perfect nest, and its also frustrating not having the machine control in some cam packages (HOPS) to be able to do fancy machining Show More

Please add PLA (Polylactic Acid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid) in Material Browser.   It is the most used material in 3D printing and still is not in fusion360. Show More

  I would like the ability to create Pulley belt system: V-Belt (Multiple or single groove pulleys) Timing Belts Flat Belts      or Chains/Sprockets: Roller Chain and Sprockets Conveyor Chains (electrical conduit)   This feature would allow me to create and animate mechanisms with realistic movement. See the below discussion for reference. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/belt-assembly/m-p/5954647#M40724     Show More

There has been a submitted Idea for this before, but it has been archived.   I'm using several parameters for a design and I want some major parameters at the top of my list.  It would be great if we can manually change the order of our parameters instead of a default by order of creation.  Also, being able to change the units after a parameter is created would be helpful, I forgot to set a parameter to DEG and had to recreate it because I couldn't re-select the units.   Show More

With the rise of many dark mode UI on many other applications; I'm wondering if it's possible to do an optional dark mode for F360? Might be good for eye straining when CAD-ing for a long time. Show More

Hello, I would love if we could opt for a dark interface similar to how Maya/Max are with the dark greys and greys. Just like Photoshop allows you to determine if you want to work with a light layout or a dark one, it would be great if you could enable it. Show More

Sheet metal in Fusion has been virtually untouched since the initial appearance of sheet metal tools in Fusion 360. It's time these sheet metal tools were updated with some enhanced capability like:   Convert a part to a sheet metal part Rip Tool  Corner Seam tool Hem tool Bend Tool Lofted Flange tool (press brake initially, formed eventually)   These tools have been implemented in Autodesk Inventor for a very long time and Autodesk knows how these tools should function. For Fusion to be a professional design tool, it must include core sheet metal functionality that has been missing for a very very long time now.    Show More

It's beyond annoying and time consuming when you insert for example a bunch of screws/nuts for an assembly and they span your computer's entire screen from top to bottom on the tree without the ability to put them into a folder labeled "screws/nuts". There is certain CAD "hygiene" that needs to be kept to work professionally and efficiently. Can we please get the ability to have folders to organize parts in an assembly? I shouldn't have to spend 5 minutes scrolling up/down to select a part. Show More

The more we use parameters to drive our design work in F360, the more we wish for conditional logic. There aren't many workarounds to having conditional statements in parameters.   I'd love to be able to set parameters like:   HoleWidth= 24 in Width = 60 in MinHoles = 2 HoleCount = if(Width / HoleWidth <2 then 2 else Width / HoleWidth)   Another desire with rectangular patterns:   We define the length, width, hole size, and spacing for a pattern of holes in a flat 2D design. We can quickly change the length and width and keep those patterned holes centered, BUT we can't have the  Won't accept a unit based reference pattern fill the space as it changes size. We have to change the actual quantity of the X and Y repetition in the pattern because the parameter system won't allow a unit-based reference to calculate in a No Unit field.   Confounding this, you can't use a parameter that has a unit in the Quantity field of a Pattern. 🤦‍:male_sign: This seems like an easy fix - just allow that parameter in the quantity field and forget that it has units.       holeCount has units Conditional logic is fairly elementary in scripting and would be a huge boon to the capabilities for parametric design software like Fusion 360.           Inventor and Revit have If Then Else, can we port that over, pretty please?     Show More

Hi, This is something that I really miss.   Add a support for multiple monitors.    Proper docking, allow to be always on top when on different screen etc...   It would be great o look at assembly, or drawing or something, while working on part, or something else.      Thx, Matt Show More

What would be extremely usefull for people who 3D print a lot is to be able to convert STL files (on import) to real bodies that can be edited (push / pull / rotation / modification etc.).       Show More

Just cam e across a situation where I needed to be able to constrain the length of arc and couldn't figure out how to do it in sketch. Show More

Using the measure tool, the displayed dimension is not always visible from the preferred angle. I often use screenshots and must later edit them with MS Paint to make  a dimension clear. Maybe you could make the dimension float above all the geometry or be manipulated in 3d?    Also, can you make it so the floating gray box is movable too? I'd like to move that out of the way for screenshots.    Thanks. Show More

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 Show More

In large assemblies, it is common to include one or more families of interchangable parts. It is very useful to be able to switch from one of these parts with another in the same family, for design experimentation or to create a product family.   Autodesk Inventor allows a component in an assembly to be replaced by another component, which serves this purpose very well.   Fusion 360 is sorely missing this feature, only allowing a component to be replaced by a different version of the same component. This effectiovely means it is impossible to try out a design using different parts in the same part family, and makes it far more difficult to test out different design variations, or to create product variants..     Show More

I've come across quite a few prints from clients where they dimension a line off zero lets say 1.50in, and then another line at 2in dimensioned off of that 1.50in line. So when I'm making my sketch in Fusion, it's much easier for me to offset a line line at 1.50in and then offset that line 2in, but Fusion wont let me.   Obviously this is a very simple example, and I could very well just offset the second line 3.5in, but the parts I work with are very precise and never that easy to add up. I could just add them up in fusion when I'm dimension the lines by typing in 1.5+2.0, but that still gives me a different dimension compared to the print. And I like to have my sketch dimensions match the print so I can easily go back and double check my work.   Another one of those feature requests from me that isn't at all necessary, but would speed up workflow. Show More

Fusion 360 desperately needs true 3D sketching. The ability to create a sketch not associated to a plane. The ability to connect a couple tangent arcs to get from one sketch to another. The ability to sketch something like the runners of an exhaust manifold that aren't planar. Show More

There are many occasions where I want to bend text around an arc or circle, the only way I can do it right now is to export my drawing as a DXF, import it into Rhino, do the work, then return back to Fusion. This seems like a very important functionality that most other CAD/CAM software has, that Fusion is lacking!! Show More

Hello, is there any possibility to make FUSION 360 support multicore processors, now update big assembly or sketch use only one core, rest of them is idle.  Show More

Ability to bend bodies in model mode. Show More

I think it would be great to be able to name a function and even the part when you creat the body. It wil quickly allow you to identify the part you just made in the bodies as well as see them in the time line. Show More

Fusion crashes...   ... and it crashes a lot. It can be hugely frustrating to see one's work lost. Sure, the auto save helps out and minimizes the damage, but it's still frustrating. It's been unreliable for too long.   So here's my idea - ever time the death screen shows up and the crash dump is logged and sent to Autodesk, how about the customer automatically gets cloud credits for their trouble.    That way Autodesk management will put some resources into reliability and make this otherwise wonderful software so much better.  Show More

Please make it possible to flip/define the Distance direction within the Chamfer feature.         Show More

The 2D-drawings workspace could use some improvements. Add weld symbols. Edit balloon content. Attach text to balloons, dimensions and "control frames". Breaks on leaders. Dash-dot-line for section view call-outs. Put balloons anywhere. Add possibility to select horizontal text direction for diameter and radius. Attach "control frames" to dimensions, make them follow movement of the dimension. Free-standing machining/surface roughness symbol for general requirement. Correct the diameter symbol in the "control frame". Create custom paper dimension (at least add A3 portrait). Ability to set default view line visibility (I do not like "hidden lines", so every time I make a new view I have to change, very annoying). Same with tangent edges. I am using a PDM system which creates the drawing frames, I want to be able to set a preference to have the default as no frame and no border on new drawing creation.   Show More

When using tools where multiple selections are required it would more efficient to change inputs with the tab key instead of clicking on the next input box. For instance the Mirror tool requires Objects to be mirrored and a Mirror Line. the Objects input is selected by default, but to switch to the Mirror Line input you must select it with the mouse. Using the tab key would speed up the process.   -Jake Show More

Is it possible to add a clear and distinguished "hide construction lines" and "hide dimensions" button to the sketch menu ? I think it would be something many people will appreciate ! Show More

Bitterly disappointed that there appears to a total disregard of Linux based operating systems. I find it somewhat misleading the claim that Fusion 360 is cross-platform when all you're doing is using the cloud to effectively store files yet you lead people to believe that they can use your software anywhere..... Linux has a massive user base and many the people using Linux are more tech minded than the general Microsoft user and possibly a significantly higher proportion to Apple users too. Many organisations do not use Windows PCs or Apple machines for good reason and you'll find Linux a significant common factor in many a machine shop and production line. Linux users tend to be industrious and keen to make things, just take a look around you and you'll find pretty much anything from your mobile phones, the internet you are communicating via and a huge proportion of the hardware that surrounds you is either embedded with Linux or was made using Linux platforms. If Autodesk is genuinely serious about their software they really ought to be supporting Linux. Show More

This has been asked in some form a couple of times in the past. Though I would like to add some arguments why this should maybe taken as a serious request. I get that Linux does not seem like a typical target platform for mechanical engineers but especially Fusion 360 touches an audience that may have previously not engaged too much with mechanical CAD at all but has now embraced Fusion 360. I know from personal experience that at least in my industry many colleagues have and that the wish for a Linux version is much bigger than one might expect. I for once use Eagle professionally at work a lot and the interconnection between the tools is a super exciting feature but the fact that I have to boot a VM for Fusion is a huge hurdle in the workflow. A lot of my work revolves around Linux for various reasons, one being f.e. that all the good open source software for working with embedded systems runs best or only on Linux, so using Windows or Mac professionally would never be a serious option for me.   I'm sure people of other professions who might not immediately identify as mechanical engineers are also profiting from a good and lean mechanical CAD tool in their work and might already do but also boot into a vm or dual boot to run Fusion at the moment. Just think of all the people doing research. Any scientific research that takes place in the physical world profits from easy and rapid physical prototyping. The success of desktop 3D printing and desktop mills like the Bantam/Othermill in this areas is proof enough that there is a large demand for this. On the same side a lot of researchers utilize Linux in their work because it makes their work easier or even possible at all.   Now the interesting thing is that the support for Fusion through Wine is actually very far already. There are mostly rather minor things that keep it from running flawlessly. I would never expect Autodesk to write a native port from scratch, unless your toolchain would offer an easy path for this I can't imagine this would ever be profitable for you. So I want to suggest that Autodesk might approach Codeweavers to do a full 'port'. Codeweaver does this as a commercial service and they are largest maintainers of wine and have made windows software work for a lot of large enterprises in the past. You can find more details here: https://www.codeweavers.com/porting   I have no affiliation with codeweavers other than that I am a user of their software Crossover. I hope you give this a thought and at least get in touch with them. Show More

Fusion 360 on Mac OS X is great, its easily the best 3D design software I've ever used. However, I feel very very disconnected when selecting, rotating and Zooming in my designs. This software is begging for Multi-Touch! Now comes the iPad Pro, a thing of beauty, built for creativity. Imagine Full Fusion 360 running on an iPad Pro... a match made in perfect harmony. Can you make this happen Autodesk!? Show More

This is an idea previously submitted: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/scale-sketch-based-on-first-placed-dimension/idi-p/5774973.   However, I would like to reopen this, as I find this a really useful feature in Inventor and it would be good to see this transfer over to Fusion 360.   The problem is that if you freehand a sketch, with no sizes, to rough out the shape you want, then as soon as you add the first dimension it gives the sketch some sense of scale. If you have freehanded the sketch very small and then apply a sketch which is 10 times bigger, then it can deform the sketch geometry, trying to maintain its constraints etc. This means more time rearranging the sketch, before you can add any more sketch dimensions. The same problem we had in Inventor, until they added this feature.   See example below:   Show More

When you mark "Find in Browser" the result should be shown with a contrasting color instead of the wave line - which is very hard to find when you have a lot of things in your browser.   Show More

enable users to draw simple geometry (dashed lines, solid lines, circles, rectangles, dots, etc) on drawing sheets   enable to link text notes to dimensions/geometry, etc     Show More

This way you wouldn't need to create a hole prior to adding the thread, it could be done in the one step. Show More

For industry and manufacturing reasons/workflows it is pretty important to add geometric dimensioning and tolerancing annotation (GD&T) and other manufacturing information directly to the 3D model.   Furthermore it would be also pretty important to retrieve these annotations in the technical drawing.  Model based definition example 1 Model based definition example 2                                                                                           Cheers   Chris   Show More

Please elevate the 3dconnexion support to certified status (like Autocad and Inventor), which ensures not only that ALL commands are accessible by 3d mouse (zoom fit, top view, right view, left view, etc.) but also better stability overall.    Show More

As shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toDzfXcGo8   This is an extremely clumsy process. It is almost absolutely necessary when you want to flip parts: design the body or component set up a CAM setup with its machining operation for the top side of the design set up a CAM setup with its machining operation for the bottom side of the design I want to be able to use the result of operation 2 to use it as stock for the operation 3. Changes on the design or the CAM operations of operation 2 would have to automatically be reflected in the stock for operation 3.   Can you make that happen? Show More

I need to use weld symbols in my drawings. We can't. use Fusion 360 for drawings without this feature.  The ability to draw custom blocks or cells would also work as a fix. Show More

Here's an idea: I'm using the sketch palette a lot but it just doesn't fit on my screen:     It always appears like that or even lower, and every time I want to use a constraint, it is just out of reach.  Could there be an option to show only icons an in a more compact way? I already know their function, I don't need the descriptions.  Besides, it just takes A LOT of space on my screen.  Show More

The CAM Feature would be a totally one stop feature if it had a feeds and speeds calculator.  Currently I use GWizard from CNCCookbook.  You can enter in the depth of cut, tool engagement, material, tool information, and how aggressive you want to be in the material removal and it will calculate a feedrate and spindle speed for your cut.  I have found that the GWizard feeds and speeds calculator is very accurate and keeps me from burning up or breaking my tools.  The calculations are not complex and one could easily integrate a feeds and speeds calculator into the CAM within Fusion 360 that could automatically set (with manual override of course) what the feed rate and spindle speed should be.   Having this feature within the CAM would make Fusion 360 CAM a killer program.  I wouldn't need to use any other program to get to gcode from a part drawing. Show More

Display the Plane Name on the plane in the graphics area.  Especially for construction planes.  Not as important for the origin planes IMO.   Show More

Ok i know this one must be very tricky but sketching on a non flat surface would be incredible !   I know you can project drawings and models on surfaces but it's time consuming when you have to redraw or modify things (for 3D models, you have to unlink everything after projection and its very hard even after unlinking to change anything). Show More

I propose that right-clicking on a Setup and clicking "Machining Time" should show not ONLY the total machining time for all operations within the setup (as it does now) but ALSO a list with EACH operation and its respective machining time! Why? 1) When editing operations to reduce cycle time, OFTEN there is the most to gain in the longest operation.  2) If you want to understand why a Setup Machining time is so long, this feature will QUICKLY show you which operations are taking the majority. 3) If you have a S&F typo (e.g. accidentally drilling at 0.2 IPM instead of 20 IPM) it's a quick way to sanity check WHY you drill operation is taking 47 minutes instead of ~1 minute). 4) We often receive CAM files from customers who want help optimizing their CAM strategies - this would help me understand, similar to #1 and #2 above, what's taking the longest 5) I believe (at the risk of being presumptuous) that this feature should be easy to implement!         Show More

Arguably, the best things about a parametric modeler are the parameters 🙂 Creating them in Fusion can be pretty clunky though.  The problem: You've spent some effort selecting the right faces, components etc, selected the right tool, gone to enter a value and realized, "This should be a parameter!" Go to the parameter editor window now and you'll have to redo all the work you just did to make your change. There's gotta be a better way!   A solution: In any text field that takes tool input, you should be able to something like:   MyParameterName=34mm   MyParameterName would then be added as parameter and set to 34mm.            Show More

I propose we get rid of the hard-to-see eye icons in the model tree next to specific features; bring back the light bulb. It was far more visible and make more intuitive sense. Show More

As earlier requested, promised by Autodesk and then ignored for over 3 and a half years here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/international-date-amp-time-format/idi-p/6201500   The current date and time format in the browser is very confusing for non-Americans. There should be a way to change this in the preferences.   I made a new post for this because my guess is that once a post has been marked as solved, it is ignored by the Autodesk team (note comments). Show More

here a friendly reminder that with you start having many objects your browser gets hard to use when it is clustered with too many bodies!   Folders like in DM really help organizing this!   Show More

Welded assemblies are quite common in manufacturing. There are some preparations needed to create a safe and rigid welding connection. An assistant in Fusion to create prepared parts for different types of welding connections and the connection itself would be a great thing for manufacturing and engineering. Furthermore you need to clarify these welding connections in the technical drawing so here you need some welding symbols as well. After the welding process is finished it is necessary to post machine your welded parts. Just a few examples for different welds Representation of a weld in a technical drawing Example for the preparation of a V-weld     Cheers   Chris Show More

2D Drawings in Fusion 360 may seem outdated but they remain a vital way of communicating manufacturing details to production engineers.  Fusion 360 cannot be taken seriously as a comprehensive design tool without the following features. Local sections are vital - not currently supported. Chain lines between thickened ends of section lines to BS8888; currently the only way to achieve this is to select a section line which coincides with a mid point, place a centre-line and extend it manually. We need a way of drawing in additional lines. Line weight control Line type control Closer control over hatching of components; the software often trips up and accidentally hatches a neighbouring component, shaft or fastening. A view cube, within the drawing environment, (as in Inventor) to orientate the views as they are placed instead of relying on the original orientation of the assembly or component in the part file. Many thanks, Andrew.       Show More