tool and clearance objects

[roambotics_scott]

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).

[vaclav_prchlik]

It is really interesting proposal. Please would a visual indication of an area needed for a tool help here? Please take a look at picture that shows the potential indication of that area.

It may be a potential improvement to Bolted Connection Proposal (http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Fusion-360-IdeaStation-Request-a/Bolted-Connection-for-Fusion/idi-p/48...

How would you define the area? Is there a list of standard tool sizes that you use related to a particular size of bolts?

Thanks for your help,

Vasek

[roambotics_scott]

I didn't see that one but they have an assembly animation tool in the works that might come close to that.

For me the biggest thing (/ in the case of your image) is translucent cylinder for the tool head with a conical frustum expanding up and outward to indicate uncertainty of the tool's positioning for something like a screwdriver but clearances could also be setup for things like wrenches and fingers / grippers.