Having trouble with Fusion in general

[Anonymous]

So I'm having a bit of a workflow crisis with Fusion in general.

If I go top-down and just blast out stuff without a care in the world, it works out okay, but parametric relationships are terrible and none of the parts are drawn 'as manufactured.' This works out OK.

If I go 'bottom-up' and draw really concise 2d sketches I get really slow sketches and Fusion does a terrible job of handling constraints. I can't get a well functioning 2d sketch like is required of you in a program like SolidWorks. Then when I go back to make changes the whole thing explodes.

It seems like I can go willy nilly making random stuff and it works, but it's nothing manufacturable. Or I can go step by step and make something manufacturable but it's impossible to make changes.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong and it's extremely frustrating.

I'm at month 4 with Fusion and still feel like I'm making fun shapes and nothing that's real.

[TrippyLighting]

Fully agree. Both on the extremely powerful and on the need to have XREFS.
Solid Works has a number of concepts that make it easy to work with large assemblies.
When in large assembly mode it loads external components in a lightweight mode that does not include all the design tree/history.
A subassembly that has moveable components can also be loaded as static, which disallows movement of parts within an external subassembly.
These are good concepts that would also work well in Fusion 360.

[daniel_lyall]

it would make life easyer haveing it that way for when you run into a problem you may only have to remove one pices recompute it if it comes right go to the bit that was removed fix it bring it back in and carry on 

[Anonymous]

So Fusion's DM mode is pretty impressive except I haven't figure out how to rotate the triad axis to line up with a specific point. I can place the center of it easy enough, it's just getting the axis direction to point at, for example, the midpoint of an edge.

Delete solves really quite well! very pleased with that.

Had more issues with lofting, I think Fusion team could really put lofting through the ringer for scenarios where you'd like to do an extrude but cant because you're working with a tapered object. Some improvement here would be very excellent and make this type of modelling very pleasant.

Offset faces could also be smarter, had some solve issues there. Things like offsetting beyond tangency would kill the model instead of simplifying it to a single arced surface.

Anyway, was able to work out another design iteration for the assistive recorder. This one keeps the holes closed. It's easier to keep them sealed and open them than it is to do it the other way  around. It wont be quite as natural as my first but it should provide good functionality. Its bulkier than I'd like but this is proof of concept... next revision should be quite a bit more svelte. It uses 3d print fillament for the hinge pins and it has 3d printed leaf springs as pictured below.

[Anonymous]

I'm finding that PM is awesome for "programming" a tool to generate parts... things like a CNC router Z axis.

DM is awesome for blasting out sketchy designs in a super fast modeling environment... bam bam bam.

Would be neat to convert timeline entries to a single DM feature. I haven't had much luck doing this, though.

[daniel_lyall]

our getting there stil some nice work

[Anonymous]

Maan Luke, I didn't know you could even 3d plastic print leaf springs!  That is a thing of beauty.

With the triad, it can seem to be a little tricky sometimes.  Although a little bit of a pain, you could of course first make a line, so in PM I tried making a sketch on the face of a cube and creating a line from the cube edge to the projected midpoint of another cube.  Then I made an axis through the two end points of that line, which the triad could lock onto (it only seemed to align a triad axis with the line axis when in an area on the cube face, i.e. the axis line extended on both sides of the cube edge.

Would be interested to get people's thoughts on an interesting workflow I'm starting to lay out:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/general-fusion-360-questions/my-workflow-and-future/td-p/5559908

Jesse