Constraints in Fusion vs Inventor

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm switching over from Inventor to Fusion, and I've noticed something when constraining sketches. When creating sketches inside Inventor, I can left-click with (I believe) the shift key held down to activate a heads-up display for different constraints. I find this to be a very fast way of geometrically constraining my sketches as my mouse travel is very limited. Does this feature not exist inside Fusion? I have similar heads-up menus in the sketch environment in Fusion, but the constraint "buttons" seem to only be available in a separate panel to the right of my screen. This is more mouse travel, and I'm wondering if there is another way of selecting constraints inside Fusion.

Best,

Andy

[HughesTooling]

Apart from the sketch palette your other option is select the geometry first then right click and pick from the right click menu.

Mark

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I'm switching over from Inventor to Fusion, 

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Sometimes I have to wonder why the Fusion guys don't walk "across the hall" and talk to their Inventor co-workers.

I don't know, maybe it has something to do with coding for dual Windows and Mac environments.

I am hoping someone can show me the trick of doing away of that monstrosity of a dialog box in Fusion.

I feel like I must be missing something.

[kb9ydn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

I'm switching over from Inventor to Fusion, 

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Sometimes I have to wonder why the Fusion guys don't walk "across the hall" and talk to their Inventor co-workers.

I don't know, maybe it has something to do with coding for dual Windows and Mac environments.

I am hoping someone can show me the trick of doing away of that monstrosity of a dialog box in Fusion.

I feel like I must be missing something.

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I think there are a couple things going on here.  First is that they wanted to start with a clean sheet for Fusion, which means little to no reuse of existing code or even existing ideas about how the program should work.  The other thing is that the code base for Fusion is very likely architected differently from Inventor, being that the former is intended to be cloud integrated.  And they may not even use the same programming language.  That doesn't mean the code couldn't be ported or at the very least ideas reused, it just means that it's probably a lot more complicated than you would think at first.

But even still, I have to wonder how much forward vision there really is for Fusion's user interface efficiency.  At the moment it feels somewhat clunky and haphazard, which gives the impression that development is just winging it.  I'm sure that's not the case, but it does seem like it sometimes.

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[innovatenate · Accepted solution]

The right click menu in Fusion 360 is context aware and is carefully curated. If you select two pieces of sketch geometry and then right click, the constraint options that make sense for those two sketch entities will be presented.

Two Lines:

Line and a Circle:

Two Points:

Coincident Line & Spline:

Not Coincident Line & Spline:

You shouldn't have to travel to the sketch palette for every constraint if you're aware of this behavior. You just have to select the geometry you want to constraint (maybe hold shift), then right click. I hope that helps!

Thanks,