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I'm dealing with a job shop here in San Diego and getting properly dimensioned drawing to him is next to impossible using the tools provided within Fusion 360. I really had high hopes for the recent updates (11/15/15) to the drawing tools but adding a 3d-shaded model to my drawing doesn't help my machinist whos doing 2d/2.5d cad/cam.
Top on my list is ordinate dimensioning, and the ability to turn ordinate chain on & off. Many of the parts I’m designing have holes throughout the design. Trying to lay out dimension lines on designs like this is next to impossible without it. The resulting design is cluttered, unclear, and results in delays in production because he is forced to contact me to clear up drawing issues.
My solution? Export the design as a STEP file, import into Solidworks as a part, then create a drawing from the part file. Dimensioning in Solidworks give me everything I need.
I really like doing cad/cam work in Fusion 360 but it's making more and more sense to just use Solidworks for everything if I can not get proper drawings to my machinist. He can’t even open Fusion 360 exported dwg drawing files with MasterCam!
As an upper division Mechanical Engineer at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities I couldn't agree more with this thread in being able to complete drawings with ordinate dimensioning. For all of my classes if I need to turn in a drawing for a class I am required to have it setup with the agreed upon convention for drawings. I myself have found that I must take everything out of Fusion and import it in to some other software such as Creo to complete the drawings appropriately. This is a bummer because the student version of Creo does not include any form of CAM and I need that for use on my CNC machine. It is becoming tricky to keep jumping back and forth between software. I also interned for a company that worked a lot with CAD/CAM and drawings and this was a MUST.
I have been using Solidworks for over 15 years so I am a bit used to having certain functions. Last month I bought a two year license for Fusion 360. I am forcing myself to use the program. Its quite painful. A simple motor mount that would take 5 min to model and dimension then create the cad for is taking way to long in Fusion. The last thing that I have ran into is the drawing side. Title blocks are a pain in the ars. Can't scale them. Can't change them without making a whole new file. And no "ordinate dimensioning". Really. I can't believe that. Its not like the program is just out.
Also while I am at it. No hole tool box for tapped holes. Now I have to spend time looking up drill bit sizes for all these different size taps. Those are some of the lacking features on just one simple part. What a waist of time. I am regretting my purchase.
I also would like to use ordinate dimensions. I'm using my Fusion 360 drawings on a manual milling machine with the Vernier scales [Party like it's 1929!], but ordinate dimensions would be just as nice with a DRO. Drawings of parts with many features are a mess using baseline dimensions.
I also agree ordinate dimensioning is extremely handy and useful as I do a lot of modular design with large quantities of holes. Trying to use linear dimensioning just makes a print look very messy and hard to read.
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