Workflow for creating packages in f360 Electronics

[mrm1018]

What is the workflow for creating a complete package from scratch, including the 3D model?

What is the workflow for modifying/customizing a complete package that has been generated, including the 3D model?

[TrippyLighting]

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@jorge_garcia wrote:

My comment is focused really on the automatic part of the workflow. Having designs changed automatically without user intervention carries risk especially when a lot of designs are involved. That risk is something to be managed and the ECAD world chooses typically to manage it by forcing explicit updates.

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Agreed! Many new users new to CAD and  Fusion 360 understand the benefits of linking and automatic updating but do not understand the negative implications fully automated updated can have.

[engineeringNCMXB]

I have been doing this selectively for decades in MCAD. Sometimes I want isolation and sometimes I want linking. At the end of the day - I want both and never want software to tell me I am doing it wrong.

Let me check an 'ADVANCED' box in preferences and dig my own grave. Why would I want to be handcuffed by the limitations of less experienced designers? Let's escape 1990 and move into 2020.

[TrippyLighting]

Agree 100%

[brian.butters]

I'm a newbie to Eagle via Fusion 360.  In your steps

1. Create a SYMBOL for use in schematic. You can create from scratch of copy/modify an existing one.
2. Create a FOOTPRINT for use in the PCB layout. You can create from scratch of copy/modify an existing one. 

3. Create a DEVICE which marries the SYMBOL and FOOTPRINT into a package that has all the pins defined.
4. Attach a 3D package to the DEVICE. This part is bizarre. You create or download a STEP file and marry that to the rendered FOOTPRINT. It is not hard, just not obvious.

I can do 1 and 2 but I would much appreciate more detail of how to do 3 and 4.

I'm trying to make a part as shown in the attached step file.  It's intended to end up as a copper patch on a board.

Thanks in anticipation.

[RichardHammerl]

Hi @Anonymous ,

thanks for pointing out this way to copy a component from one library into another one. I marked your post as a solution for now.  I know we will soon see improvements in this area so that you can simply import a Device/Symbol/Footprint into another library. 

Thanks for your participation in the Forum.

Regards,

[Calvin]

This has been improved 

If you go into the destination library and click on new device, there is now an import option. I just uploaded the lbr I was trying to pull from into the fusion 360 folder and it also showed up in the list. So this is not actually easier then eagle but not well documented. 

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[wwfeldman]

a general comment on this entire thread:

while not new to engineering, i am new to eagle and even newer to F360

making symbols is easy enough, either from scratch or by modifying.

in F360 electronic, footprints come from the 3D package from the package generator - which turns our to be fairly easy, once one relates the package generator geometry to the actual part geometry

except for things that don't match the items in the package generator and when one want only a footprint and not a 3D model  (such as plated through holes, as in thread "pin hole without a device attached")

i want to know how to build a 3D model in F360, with all of the fancy sketch, bodies, components, etc functionality  of F360, then use it as the 3D model for some device in F360 electronics

and, in line with the thread noted above, how can i build a footprint without a 3D package?