Rendering orbit / 360 view

[Tobi.Fusion]

Hey there,

is there a way to render an orbit in Fusion 360? Like this one?

[SaeedHamza]

Hi,

Not really, this can only be done using the Animation work space, but not rendered

Saeed

[ben.lorimore · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tobi.Fusion,

The orbit you attached is a .gif so yes, with a few work arounds.

I would make a series of renders that you later stitch into a .gif. To make this series I'd choose a perspective view you want the .gif to be from and then save that perspective as a new named view (browser>right click named views> new named view). This is so you can get back to that exact view for each render. Then, since you cannot precisely rotate the viewing angle in Fusion, rotate all your components around their center axis between each render (instead of rotating the view.) The more renders/rotations, the less choppy the .gif while be (with more renders your rotations will obviously become incrementally less because you will only need 360 degrees of rotations, so I'd decide how many frames you want in your .gif before you start.) To stitch up the pictures into a .gif I'd recommend using photoshop, but there are also free .gif creators online as well.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Ben

[TrippyLighting]

Yes, that can be done. Unfortuanately the Fusion 360 team has limited the number of frames to 36 per revolution in an attempt to truly ensure We get amateurish looking results 😉

In order to limit functionality even more it was decided to allow this only when cloud rendering is enabled. So in essence it is aimed at people that one would assume are willing to spend cloud credits in exchange for money, but then are only provided with a truly useless feature.

RANT over 😉

[Tobi.Fusion]

Hello @ben.lorimore,

this is waaay to much overhead, but yeah at least there is some way to do it.

You really should implement a easier way to make an orbit of the object, i would use this Feature in each Project.

regards

Tobi

[schneik-adsk]

Open the model in Fusion 360, then enter the render workspace.

Select any image in the gallery so it opens in the popup window, then select re-render as turntable.

You can see the results for an example here: https://gallery.autodesk.com/fusion360/projects/-21-engine

[Tobi.Fusion]

Hello @schneik-adsk,

thanks for your reply, but first sadly just Cloud Render, so no high quality (without paying) =(

And second why limit the amount of frames, why don't let the user decide? I want a nice smooth rotation, but 36 frames for one rotation is not smooth.

regards