Creating printable product documentation

[Anonymous]

I'm starting to get into F360, and especially the CAM and enjoying that tremendously (will post some pics hopefully soon).  However looking ahead a little bit was curious about creating printable product documentation, perhaps with exploded assemblies, arrows to illustrate how to assemble, creating multiple views for minimal wording, etc., just like in those nicer user manuals.  I know Solidworks has somewhat specific tools for that, was curious if Fusion 360 is to the point yet where creating such documents is fairly user friendly?   

Thanks for everything.

[Anonymous]

Very good question and I hope we get some discussion on this.

What I used to do in the past was export views to DXF in SolidWorks, then I would import to Adobe Illustrator and do my product documentation in there. We always opted for simplified instructions over something an engineer (aka ME!, well, almost 🙂 ) would like to see, so this worked out nicely.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Lukepighetti, that sounds like a good way to do it.  I did not know Illustrator could import a file like DXF, and I suppose move around components too, for say an exploded view. 

Yeah simplicity seems to be the key, helps get impatients like me to actually look at the instructions 😉