Weldment Package for Fusion 360

[Mark___M]

Can anyone give me hope on the development of a Weldment Package / functionality for Fusion 360?

I found some old vague signs that it was/is kind-of, maybe on the radar for dev... many years ago.

Any solid info? Or is this the hill I die on?

Generative Design is cool n all but c'mon...

[Leo_Dyn]

You can add welding symbols to drawings currently.

However, I don't think there is any way to actually automate model the welding beads themselves at this time. Not even sure that has made it to the roadmap to work on either. I suppose you could do a profile of a weld and use the sweep to put it in models if necessary. Pretty darn cumbersome, but certainly doable...

[jeff_strater]

There are no immediate plans to support weldments in the Design environment.  At the moment, I don't believe that this is high on the backlog, to be honest.  Sorry not to have a better answer, but you asked...

[Mark___M]

Thanks for the reply,

Just to be clear, I don’t mean calling out a weld in a drawing, or modelling a weld in the design workspace.

I mean a Weldments like Solidworks means Weldments.

[Mark___M]

That makes me sad Jeff.

What do we have to do to bump that feature up the backlog a few notches?

I’ve tasted the sweet nectar of Weldments in Solidworks and I know Autodesk has it in them for the good people of the F360 community.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

"What do we have to do to bump that feature up the backlog a few notches?"

Get a few thousand of your closest friends to ask for the same thing...

Seriously, if more customers think that this is critical to adoption, it will get funded.  To date, though, I have not seen all that many requests for it.  It makes me sad, too, because I know this is useful, but resources are limited, so not everything can get funded...

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Mark___M wrote:

I mean a Weldments like Solidworks means Weldments.

I know Autodesk has it in them...

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[TrippyLighting]

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@Mark___M wrote:

What do we have to do to bump that feature up the backlog a few notches?

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Stand in line behind the folks who have provided thousands hours of service to the community through this forum and have  asked for much less involved feature sets and gotten a NO.

That would include myself 😉

[GoldFamilyFarms20]

I also would love to see weldments in Fusion. They would save so much time

[KFPS]

I will second the need for weldments. Everything in Fusion 360 have been really nice and I was just about to say that you do not need the big expensive CAD systems anymore for professional use... until i learned that it could not do weldments.

Everytime you see a machine that has a frame from alu profiles or welded profiles, it would benefit from weldments. From small 3d printers to big project, frames are used everywhere. There might be a big part of the Fusion 360 users that does not use weldments, but my guess is that it is because Fusion 360 is there first CAD program and they have not tried it, NOT because they do not need it! 

[carl.j.barker · Accepted solution]

There is an Add-on that goes someway to providing a frame generator. 

Structural Member | AutoCAD | Autodesk App Store

[KFPS]

Hi Carl

Thank you for that info, that is exactly what I need. 

To bad that it have to be provided by a third party and that you have to pay more (But it will not be me who is paying, so for now I do not care).

[usolutionsTRFWW]

Am adding myslef to the list of thousand customers that ask for this. Make this an addon paid package like other stuff you have. Standing with cash in hand. I know you have this feature in inventor

[KFPS]

I have bought the subscription package Structural Members as linked to by Carl.J.Barker and from playing with it for ½ hour it does work quit well. That package alone saved Fusion360 from getting scrubbed as my departments new CAD tool. Lucky I stumbled into it in this thread, which again should tell the Fusion360 team how important this feature is (and it should not be something you have to pay a third party for implementing).

[rkde]

Weldments missing is 100% what is stopping us moving over from Solidworks, thats 5+ seats not being taken up because this feature doesn't exist and that is just us as one company 

We have a single seat for trials and testing and other than the odd way it works with parts in an assembly we could live with it but not without wledments. We will probably let the seat laps this year and come back when the feature is included

[domusam]

Weldments is the most obvious missing feature for me. I would say 50% of what I design needs some sort of frame structure. Drawing every member and putting the rads on, trying to remember the rad on a 50mm x 50mm box section, not being able to, having to google it, then shelling and forgetting to do both ends, going back and doing both ends, is a right pain in the bumhole.

[Sean_M18]

X2 for this application saving me from a Solidworks seat. After using Solidworks Weldments at work, building tube assemblies without this was downright painful. For anyone looking for a slick parametric solution for tube and plate assemblies, this is a life saver. 

[weatherly]

I have been using weldments in solidworks for many years.

The sooner fusion can add even a rudimentary weldment tool the better. but modeling structures aint that hard the long way.

[thlim_ktmh]

So, where are we now on this? FEA is meaningless without this capability.

[thlim_ktmh]

There is no weldment in that Add-on.