Fusion Product Roadmap Update
Sadly nothing is mentioned
to address the slow sketch engine speed
and adv. surfacing tools
I wish after 2 years of mentioning it more focus would be put to finishing the tool set and abilities for surface tools.
In some areas is pales and is not as efficient or even impossible to do certain shape / form construtions forcing the user
to use kinda cumbersom work arounds to get something similar done.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
The sketch offset is pretty amazing to have and needed. Great to see that this will come soon.
Through the last year with a lot of student projects and such, teaching Alias as well we noticed that in certain areas
solid modeling Fusion is amazingly fast and easy to use - because it is very logical like
select face and shell out solid.
But when it came to more organic shapes and you need quality surfaces it showed that the toolset is not ideal for it
and while possible sometimes resulted into a process to figure out how to get Fusion to surface what we wanted.
This however is more an observation through the vast amount of project I saw Fusion being used at.
So for asking what is the TS face freezing?
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Nick Kloski
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A big percentage of the CAM development is just because it's in HSMWorks, their programmers aren't work on Fusion so it's not taking that much away from the Fusion development. Also I don't have all the problems you're seeing, as has been pointed out in another thread, if it was that bad for everyone there'd be a lot more complaints. Trying to figure out why you have problems is not going to be easy, there must be a conflict somewhere.
Mark
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@jamie.q.white wrote:
2) I still can't work with a mesh, T-spline body, and BREP in one workspace in any software.
That would require some explanation 😉
I've done this successfully with 2 T-Splines. One of them was massive and had 19,000 faces. These were created in Blender and exported from there as as .obj quad meshes and iported into Fusion 360. There they were converted into T-Splines and from T-Splines into BRep bodies. Then mechanical features were added to be able to assemble these pieces and to mechnically interface witha PCB.
These were successfully 3D printed.
Actually I'd be hard pressed to find any other software than Fusion 360 that this can be done with.
I do not do cam so I cannot judge that. Sped and stability wise fusion for me constantly improved. I still think alias kills fusion display hands down. It is just faster. Edge selection of 300 faces in fusion takes some long seconds to process - instantly in other cad apps. Maybe like with the 3D viewer the engines in fusion always do some extra things instead of like just selecting the edges.
but ok when it comes to quickly do g1 fillets on 360 edges Fusion just steams forward and does the job.
so it is like give and take I never after having used fusion and Alias looked back at my rhino license.
for me as product designer and faculty the really glaring issue in fusion are tee tremendous lack of serious surfaring tools and abilities.
so mu[ch is missing and making creating complex shapes a pain to nearly unreadable at the moment.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
I wonder once the deep linking update is done will this mean we'll see much needed features coming in or not. Glaring omissions from Fusion would be a proper part-assembly workflow, mirrored assemblies, BoM.
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No, that's not a bodge. It's one of the key differentaion points of Fusion 360 and makes one heck of a difference for the things I do.
I would also consider myself a fairly keen observer of the CAD and 3D modeling market and have watched that market for 25 years.
Iv'e worked as a mechatronics engineer on a drawing board before CAD was invented and have worked with CAD software since it's very inception. HP ME10, Catia, AutoCAD (20 years) , Solid Works (12+ years), Geomagic Design (4 years), Blender (Subdivisionsurface modeler (12+ years). I've tinkered around with Rhino, SolidThinking, MoDo, SketchUp, and a good bit of other other software.
You may just simply have to accept that there are folks here on the Forum including AD employeees that have a boatload more experinence in a variety of CAD pacakges and that are trying to help you overcome your obstacles, of which some are self inflicted. Once you accept that you'll learn quicker and will be more productive in Fusion 360.
