Drawings : Insert Rendering/Image

[AHoward321]

Can a rendered image be placed on a drawing file?

[jchase123 · Accepted solution]

Hi AHoward321,

If you want to place an image file in Drawings workspace of Fusion 360, you can use this temporary workaround. If you can save out the Rendered Image to your computer as: jpg, jpeg, png, or tiff format then:

1) In the Drawings Work-space, Double Click the Title-block so you get the Title-block Edit Dialog to appear

2) In the Title-block Edit Dialog, Click Image Insert, Select your Rendered Image you want to put in the Drawing

3) Scale the image and apply an offset in the Title-block Edit Dialog to move it to where you want it to appear in the drawing.

Unfortunately this is the only way to do this currently, and you can only have one image inserted using this work around.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,

Justin

[AHoward321 · Accepted solution]

Greetings Justin,

This helps however, how would I get the image dialog to come up in a custom
titleblock?

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Alexander L. Howard

[jchase123 · Accepted solution]

Hi Alexander,

Unfortunately this workaround is not something that you will be able to do with a custom title-block, currently we do not have the ability to do this. In the future this will be possible when we expand the Title-block authoring tools in Fusion Drawings or if we create a generic Insert Image command. 

Only workaround I can possibly think of now would require you to use AutoCAD to create a custom title-block .DWG file. In this DWG insert your rendering, move the rendering to where you would want to see it in the modeling works-pace of AutoCAD (might take a few tries to position the rendering), upload this .DWGto Fusion and make a drawing from a design using that custom title-block that has the rendering inside of it. This is quite tedious because you would need a custom title-block with each models rendering already inside of it.

Custom Title-blocks/Title-block Authoring - is one of the bigger things we intend to work on improving, once this work gets implemented into Drawings it should become much easier to insert a pre-generated rendering into a drawing your working on. 

Here is the Drawings Functionality Roadmap: http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/2d-drawings-check-roadmap/

Best Regards,

Justin Chase

[AHoward321 · Accepted solution]

Justin thats exactly what I did !!!! but I saw that the attributes showed
so I just thought the was an image attribute in autocad but yes I'll do
this in the interim.

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Alexander L. Howard