PowerMill and Fusion 360

[spencer.hardcastle]

Hi PowerMill Community!

Do you use both PowerMill and Fusion 360? Whether it be on a large scale, or just personally, we'd love to hear more about how these products have been integrated into your workflows.

• Do you use Fusion 360 for your workholding, while using PowerMill for your component manufacture?
• Do you use the Simulation workspace in Fusion 360 to verify your parts before manufacturing in PowerMill?
• Have you explored Generative Design inFusion 360 before using PowerMill for manufacturing?

These are just a few example scenarios, but many more are possible. If you've used Fusion 360 and PowerMill together in any way, please let us know by replying to this post. Looking forward to starting the discussion and hearing from you all.

[mribble]

Fusion is my go-to for designing relatively simple fixtures as it's less cumbersome than PowerShape for parametric solids. It saves me having to bother some one with a seat of solidworks/etc and making them draw up my napkin sketch.

I'm sure there are lots of ways I could be using it but that's the most obvious application; if there was a unified list of handy features I'd probably use them.

[stdpattern]

I installed Fusion 360 at one point last year, but it was SO different from PowerSHAPE that I could not get the hang of it quickly.  I admit I didn't give it a lot of time.  

If I had time, I would like to learn Fusion 360, but that is hard to come by as we all know.

[smackayPFSC4]

Being that much of Fusion 360 is "cloud based", we cannot use Fusion 360. ITAR and the N.D.A. docs we are required to sign, we cannot allow the data outside of our facility. 

I see this as a glaring deficiency of Fusion 360.

I still don't see it as a replacement for PowerShape.
PowerShape is still one of the better tools around at fixing bad data. We have seats of UG, Catia, Creo, and I think Solidworks. I can fix bad data faster in PowerShape than any of our dedicated designers can in any other package.

[Meysam_Ghorbani]

Hello

Instead of combining these two programs
Upgrade Powermill capabilities Like fusion...

[M_Hennig]

Powermill users seem to be on the back burner compared to Fusion when it comes to Autodesk.

[MitchPflederer]

probably doesnt answer the question, but im using this as a place to give an opinion... the scripts and add-ons for fusion are far less powerful/easy to use than powermills macros BUT i love that its python compatable. i love how power mill is nearly 100 percent customizable, we can edit the menus and drop downs ect. i dont like the encryption on the project files of powermill as that hinders the use of machine learning greatly. fusion is great as its own thing but the programming side is cumbersome and somewhat un-intuitive coming from a powermill background. the explorer layout in powermill is still the best and most intuitive out of all the cam programs I've messed with. there's a reason guys and gals at the shop pick it up so quick.

[Anonymous]

I used Fusion 360 for a while, essantially for CAD and CAM.

Now, I use Powermill to help ppl on It.

I just hope that .dgk files will be able on Fusion 360 really soon!

[Anonymous]

I use Fusion to prepare parts before i program them on PowerMill, as a new user to both i found Fusion very intuitive, being the only downside not exporting in .dgk format.

PowerMill has a harder learning curve but is amazing what you can do with macros and plugins.

In the future I intend to explore Fusions' Manufacture capabilities further.