SketchUp vs Fusion 360 , for quick client drawings and designs ?

[andyC73F4]

First of all I am very new to Fusion 360,  I'm just getting my head around it, I can see the massive benefits of it as I'm buying a CNC machine designing carcasses and joinery is far superior in my opinion already .

My question here see images below is it basic stages of producing sketches for clients I am able to dimension within SketchUp to show the client give him an idea of size and scale with some technical detail.  

I haven't found a way to dimension over the top of the 3-D drawing in fusion, I'm also not sure if it is as quick to do this kind of sketch (but that could well be the user as I am very slow in fusion at this point) also working on a full room or design seem slower to me than sketchUp , but designing joinery of an individual item seems far superior in fusion 

My ultimate goal would be to use one software i.e. fusion 360 to design and control CNC and also present sketches to the client.  I guess my question is when I'm sufficient in Fusion 360 do you guys think it will cover this kind of sketch or will be as good or better than sketchUp ..

[Lennart_Losjo]

Hi.

Maby, show dimension on selected sketches will do the trick?

[andyC73F4]

can you do that in fusion ? I could find that function .   I have ended up exporting to drawing and dimension in the drawing in fusion  

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@andyC73F4 wrote:

can you do that in fusion ? I could find that function .  

1. Browser > Sktech > rightclick > show dimension

2. Perspective dimensioning is not possible

günther

[andyC73F4]

the problem is the sketch can become of date if you extruded parts and drag things around ..   only way seems to be make a drawing and dimension   

[Lennart_Losjo]

Hi.

Yes you could do it. Now when i try i could not hide the profile.

Look at the screencast.

https://autode.sk/30rFQ7G

[g-andresen]

Hi,

You could add a dimensioned 3-D sketch afterwards.
But that 1. does not look good and 2. requires more effort.

günther

Screencast

[andyC73F4]

 this is very handy , thank you .  only problem I see is if a make changes to the main sketch the dimension overlay sketch will go out of date .  I'm going to see if I can make a little QuickTime screen grab of how I ended up delivering part of this to the client .  I ended up exporting to drawing and using that which is actually a better way to do it in the final stages but definitely isn't as quick in the interim design process as it would've been just simply showing the drawing with some sketch dimensions 

[HughesTooling]

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@andyC73F4 wrote:

the problem is the sketch can become of date if you extruded parts and drag things around ..   only way seems to be make a drawing and dimension   

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Really if you are creating assemblies you should use Rule#1 and create components. The components should be self-contained and you position them with joints. When a component is moved all the sketches used to create it will move with it.

Mark