Configuration Design properties and drawing attribute linking

[patrickh7NUVZ]

Starting off I am fairly new to fusion 360, loads of experience in Solidworks though(expert level certified). Playing with Fusion 360 I have run into a bit of an issue that I can't figure out.

Some background, the company I am work for now does one thing and one thing only, piston rings. Been told there are 42,000 different variations of rings that are made, have been made, and there are more to be made. What I am working on now in fusion 360 is making this process streamlined for the engineering side so that I can change things in one place, the configuration table, and have it automatically update across the board, so model and drawings, and hopefully down the road I can integrate the CAM aspect too, think drill size correlated to configured diameter, maybe even update speeds and feeds based of material if possible?

Now for what i am trying to add/figure out. One of our current projects has 77 different configurations. For the most part i have flushed out the dimensional changes for the configuration table, diameters, edge breaks, fillets, ring gap, etc etc. What I am trying to do now is control material. I have figured out the theme for applying the material to the different configurations but what I am trying to add now is the different material specifications so that it will add the material spec to the drawing. So for example I can get it to add 17-7 PH CRES for material to my title block. What I would like it to add in a separate cell of the title block is the material spec AMS5528. This will also correlate with title block cell that will have the material hardness, and a title block cell that correlates with the heat treat spec.

What I want to set up is a configuration column that allows me to input text for the specs in the design tree so that when I drop the model on the drawing sheet, it automatically updates the title block with the configured information, material, material spec, hardness, hardness spec etc. I know how to do this in SW but have hit a wall in fusion 360.

[jhackney1972]

You need to take a look at this Forum post as a method of voicing your suggestion about Configurations.

[Pramod.kadam]

Hi @patrickh7NUVZ ,

Thanks for the feedback.

We can not put configuration parameters on the drawings at present. However we can insert Material property and other parameters in the Texts and Notes in drawing canvas (but not in title block). These placed properties updated dynamically as you change in the design.

We are also working on new feature 'Configuration Table' which will allow to place all configured parameters in tabular format in Drawings. Also with this, we can add configuration parameters in Notes, Texts. This work is in progress. I hope that will help for your workflow.

Just wanted to understand, Is there any specific reason you want all these properties as a part of title block? (Please note, the properties update will happen even if they are places as a Text in the Drawings(.

Thanks,

[patrickh7NUVZ]

Our drawings are a direct correlation to our router and a supplementary aid for production.  Just this week we ran into an issue with material information about which specific spec to use, two different coils of the same material with different AMS specs. We are working on getting our routing up to speed to reflect the important information as well as getting our internal drawings setup as a sort of "spark notes" of the process for quick overviews of what the job will entail. I was hoping to get all of the specification in a tabular place so when we move forward with new components, all that will need to be done is adding a new configuration, fill in the row for the new component, and the drawing sheet will make itself essentially. With the quantity of new parts coming in, even a few minutes of saving per drawing will save hours in the long run. The ultimate goal would be being able to write a work instruction on how to add a new configuration and handing the drawings off to a less experienced CAD user.

Another good example for this drawing set is the fact that all of the configurations on the customer drawing are already tabular with a notes section of 27 different specs. Each configuration doesn't use all 27 of the specs listed but only 3-6 of the 27. If i could put the 27 specs in one place in a table, and have it set up so that the drawing would pull the required specs, it would drastically cut down on the time to type or copy and paste the notes into the internal drawing notes. I have tinkered with trying to get the BOM to pull the specs in but have just started looking into that.