Using fusion 360 for line drawing chemical etch layouts

[greenwoods1462]

Hello - I am a model maker and use Fusion 360 for my 3D drawings that I send for 3D printing and Microsoft Visio for drawings in 2D that I then turn to artwork for chemical etching.  I have attached one of my PDFs for the chemical etching......is there an easy way to produce these types of line drawings in Fusion rather than Visio?....I can use the sketch tool - but i am not sure that line thinkness and shape colouring is something that Fusion can naturally support???  Or I may be wrong.

Any guidance gratefully received,

[jeff_strater]

no, I would not recommend attempting this in Fusion's sketch environment.  There is no support for line thickness, as you mentioned, but also no support for filled areas or color choices.  Additionally, this is probably just too many entities for sketch - it will get bogged down just trying to solve this many entities.  Fusion's sketcher is designed for creating constrained sketches to be consumed by solid feature, with a practical limit of a few hundred curve entities before the performance becomes intolerable.

Just out of curiosity, why are you interested in Fusion for this?  If Visio works, why not continue to use it?

[greenwoods1462]

Visio is a great tool but what i really want to be able to do is to integrate my sketches and 3D models in one platform....that would enable a seamless engineering platform.  Attached a photo of one of my models, all of the curved surfaces components are drawn in Fusion but the flat pieces are drawn in visio....having one platform would smooth out alot of errors.....obut thanks for the guidance....I will stop looking!