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Fusion R.U.L.E #1
When in doubt, before doing anything, create a component and make sure it's activated.
All objects created after activating the component such as sketches, bodies, construction geometry, joint origins, etc. are created in that component.
This has several advantages:
- On activation the timeline is filtered to show only those items in the timeline that pertain to that component. That will make the quickly growing timeline much easier to work with.
- If a component is exported to the data panel with "save as" this will also export the complete parametric design history.
- The joints in the "Assemble menu only work with components.
Drawings can only be created from components - Only components show on the BOM.
- Only components can be added to selection sets.
- Only components can be isolated.
When another component needs to be edited for example to add geometry, it should be activated before doing so.
the above points apply to assemblies as well.
Exceptions to R.U.L.E #1
There are a number of other workflows that are perfectly valid but the first step would not be creating a component. For the most part these are top-down design workflows:
- When you create a skeleton sketch that carries features of several parts of the design and is used to extrude or otherwise create several bodies that then are turned into components. That conversion into a component, however, should happen as soon as possible because features added to a body contained in a component are all added to that components design history.
- When the design starts with a T-Spline for example the exterior shell of a product that is then split int one or more bodies. Here also conversion into a component should happen as soon as the bodies are created.
- A design for a single part to be used as an external, linked component (X-REF) in other designs. No component creation is necessary in this case as that design when inserted into another design is inserted as as a component.
This is also well explained in this 6 minute video tutorial.
Fusion R.U.L.E #2
Name Your Stuff!
No explanation necessary...hopefully 😉
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Fusion R.U.L.E #1
When in doubt, before doing anything, create a component and make sure it's activated.
All objects created after activating the component such as sketches, bodies, construction geometry, joint origins, etc. are created in that component.
This has several advantages:
- On activation the timeline is filtered to show only those items in the timeline that pertain to that component. That will make the quickly growing timeline much easier to work with.
- If a component is exported to the data panel with "save as" this will also export the complete parametric design history.
- The joints in the "Assemble menu only work with components.
Drawings can only be created from components - Only components show on the BOM.
- Only components can be added to selection sets.
- Only components can be isolated.
When another component needs to be edited for example to add geometry, it should be activated before doing so.
the above points apply to assemblies as well.
Exceptions to R.U.L.E #1
There are a number of other workflows that are perfectly valid but the first step would not be creating a component. For the most part these are top-down design workflows:
- When you create a skeleton sketch that carries features of several parts of the design and is used to extrude or otherwise create several bodies that then are turned into components. That conversion into a component, however, should happen as soon as possible because features added to a body contained in a component are all added to that components design history.
- When the design starts with a T-Spline for example the exterior shell of a product that is then split int one or more bodies. Here also conversion into a component should happen as soon as the bodies are created.
- A design for a single part to be used as an external, linked component (X-REF) in other designs. No component creation is necessary in this case as that design when inserted into another design is inserted as as a component.
This is also well explained in this 6 minute video tutorial.
Fusion R.U.L.E #2
Name Your Stuff!
No explanation necessary...hopefully 😉
@Anonymous wrote:
"No explanation necessary...hopefully ;-)"
... I see TWO *different* 'R.U.L.E #1's, and NO 'R.U.L.E #2'...
Fixed 😉
@Anonymous wrote:
"No explanation necessary...hopefully ;-)"
... I see TWO *different* 'R.U.L.E #1's, and NO 'R.U.L.E #2'...
Fixed 😉
Correct!
There are no exceptins to Rule #2. You should ALWAYS name your stuff. Period!
Correct!
There are no exceptins to Rule #2. You should ALWAYS name your stuff. Period!
This video was just released and adds a method to remover if a user forgot to apply Rule #1.
Thanks @Aaron.Magnin for making it.
This video was just released and adds a method to remover if a user forgot to apply Rule #1.
Thanks @Aaron.Magnin for making it.
@Anonymous @Noah_Katz if you start a thread on the normal Forum I's be more than happy making an attempt to explain it.
In short, the entire patch workspace would not work without bodies, the split body command then the combine command wouldn't really be useful either.
@Anonymous @Noah_Katz if you start a thread on the normal Forum I's be more than happy making an attempt to explain it.
In short, the entire patch workspace would not work without bodies, the split body command then the combine command wouldn't really be useful either.
Why you usually do depends on what you are designing. An Industrial designer such as @cekuhnen uses many bodies in this design and does not really need components to do so.
Why you usually do depends on what you are designing. An Industrial designer such as @cekuhnen uses many bodies in this design and does not really need components to do so.
That is not 100% correct.
For a concept model where I explore I select a process that is fast not as precise because the outcome is not a model to manufacture
but a model to explore the design.
When creating something that has to be send to a factory or such then I select a different approach to generate the CAD data.
In this step however the design is more or less solved and we execute the blueprint in 3D.
Only because Fusion is a parametric solid modeler does not mean you have to use an engineering like approach to the model.
It really comes down to what you want to learn and do with the CAD data you will generate.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
That is not 100% correct.
For a concept model where I explore I select a process that is fast not as precise because the outcome is not a model to manufacture
but a model to explore the design.
When creating something that has to be send to a factory or such then I select a different approach to generate the CAD data.
In this step however the design is more or less solved and we execute the blueprint in 3D.
Only because Fusion is a parametric solid modeler does not mean you have to use an engineering like approach to the model.
It really comes down to what you want to learn and do with the CAD data you will generate.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
@cekuhnen wrote:
It really comes down to what you want to learn and do with the CAD data you will generate.
@TrippyLighting wrote:
What you usually do depends on what you are designing.
OK. Granted! I was only 99.99% correct 😉
@cekuhnen wrote:
It really comes down to what you want to learn and do with the CAD data you will generate.
@TrippyLighting wrote:
What you usually do depends on what you are designing.
OK. Granted! I was only 99.99% correct 😉
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