Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

[sutherland-]

Dear community,

I would like to know how is it possible to show Center of Mass/Gravity in a technical drawing?

Example can be seen below:

Best,

Kritzz

[sutherland- · Accepted solution]

The only way I can see how to overcome the question, is placing the Center of Mass in the design workspace , then manually measuring it form the midpoints of the design, which is really time consuming and not handy.

[jhackney1972]

Take a look at this Blog Article and Video to demonstrate the process.  The article also mentions another article which talks about placing the center of mass in the model.  It is a manual process but these will speed the process.

[sutherland-]

Tried your solution, but my point sketch is grayed out in the drawing workspace.

[jhackney1972]

I am experiencing the same problem.  Something is very different with the way Fusion 360 handles the position of points in the drawing environment since I recorded the Blog video.  It would seem it cannot handle the sketch if it is moved off of the plane on which it was created.  I am working on a different workflow and if I can find one, will update my blog.  I will also come back to this post and update it also.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Since Fusion 360 no longer will show a point in a drawing view that is "not" on the original plane of creation, I have come up with another method.  The process is outline in the video below.  I will be updating my Blog article and video as soon as possible.

[sutherland-]

It worked, awesome, thanks!

But again, it is a bummer that Fusion 360 does not have it as a default feature, since this is quite crucial for DFMA.

[RLShute]

I would like a simple solution so that I can use it with my High school Freshmen.  The system based on creating a new componet and sketch points in required views is to diffcult for the majority of them.   I know if I forced them to do it that way it would turn new Fusion users off from the product. 

The reason I care is that students are designing and building compresses air rockets.  In doing this I want to compare the center of mass to the center of pressure to help them design rockets that do not tumble in flight.   I hope Auotdesk see this and design a way to transkfer the center of mass from the model to the drawing with the touch of a button. 

[Matt_Finish]

Has this been properly solved since this post's creation? (ideally imputing COM Symbol into a drawing)