Fusion 360 Electronics Forum FAQ and Useful Tips

[HelenChen-ElectronicsQA]

Hey there,

Thank you all for your participations in the Fusion 360 Electronics Forum. 

Here we are sharing some frequent asked questions and useful tips for your reference. 

General

1 Q: Where to find the Fusion Electron tutorial as a previous Eagle user? 

A:  Related links: 

• EAGLE to Fusion 360 Migration Guide: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-electronics/eagle-to-fusion-360-migration-guide/td-p/10642... 
• Blogs Page: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog#electrical-engineering 
• Fusion 360 electronics: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/features#electronics 
• Fusion 360 electronics landing Page: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/electronics-engineer 
• Fusion 360 electronics YouTube Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmA_xUT-8UlI0k9YsKK23onh_0VV2_DP5 
• Fusion 360 electronics help files: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=ECD-OVERVIEW 
• Fusion 360 electronics forum: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-electronics/bd-p/6071 
• Fusion 360 electronics self-paced learning: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/courses/ 

2 Q: Is there High DPI support on Windows OS for Fusion 360? 

A: Yes, there is. In Fusion Preferences dialog > Preview Features > Enable HighDPIScaling and restart Fusion. 

3 Q: How to references existing schematic and board files without relationship with them?  

A: Check the checkbox of “Create a copy” when you reference the schematic or board file. 

4 Q: Why my schematic and board file is inconsistent, and how to correct it? 

A: Please make sure to open the Electronics Designs from the data panel which will open the linked schematic file and board file, and then start to work on it. If you just open the schematic file and for example add a device, then schematic and board file will become inconsistent. 

Once this issue happened, you could invoke Synchronize in the schematic file in order to correct it. 

It could be accessed via: Schematic > Validate > Synchronizer 

5 Q: How to delete an unused file which was referenced by other files? E.g. break linked 3DPCB file. 

A: Create a project in your Fusion hub, e.g Trash > Move the unused file to the Trash project > Archive the trash project (the file is not deleted from Fusion actually, because it may be used in an earlier version of another file, e.g. linked with an earlier version of a 2D PCB file.) 

 Schematic

1 Q: How to reuse the Design Block from EAGLE in Fusion 360? 

A: In EAGLE, insert the pre-defined Design Block > Copy the Design Block > Paste it into Fusion’s schematic editor, while the board file has to be closed before. If you want to use a Design Block for the board, you could paste the copied Design Block from EAGLE into the Fusion 2D PCB, while the schematic file has been closed before. 

Please refer to below post for more details:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-electronics/creating-and-using-design-blocks/m-p/10548148 

2 Q: How to access variants in the schematic? 

A: Type the command Variant variant_name in the command line of the schematic editor. 

3 Q: Where to add Frames? 

A: Currently there is an available library named frames. You can access it through the Library Manager to use it and add frames to your schematic. 

Board

1 Q: Why I cannot place or move a device or route in my board and cannot edit the parameters in the Inspector? 

A: By default, the Push Violators mode is enabled. Switch to the option Ignore Violators in the navigation bar on bottom of the board editor. 

3D PCB

1 Q: How to work with 3D PCB?

A: Please refer to below forum post for more details:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-electronics/how-to-work-with-3d-pcb/td-p/9278497 

Library

1 Q: How can I export libraries used in this schematic and make them available to my colleagues?  
A: Run the explib command in the schematic and allow your colleagues to access the hub where the libraries are stored. 

2 Q: Why I cannot run the downloaded script from https://www.ultralibrarian.com/ in Fusion to create a library? 

A: Set the default grid units to mil in Fusion 360 Preferences dialog for both new schematic document and new board document and run the script in library editor. 

Hope they help.