I like the simplicity and intuitiveness of Fusion as it makes it very easy to use for those of us without a whole lot of previous CAD experience. I’m now crossing over from conventional subtractive machining to 3D printing and would like to see mechanical parts and surface finishing techniques available that can be directly accessed via menu (ie on on the Mac version of Fusion too) and not require scripts. I will enter a few suggestions separately for vote.   At the moment the only mechanical feature available in the create menu is “threads”. I would like to suggest a gear generator that can generate correctly modelled mechanical gears. Given that 3D printing isn’t limited by conventional gear manufacturing techniques, apart from simple spur gears I would like to see more complex gears available such as double herringbone, helical, worm, bevel (of various types), and racks. I would like both metric and imperial gears available and the menu to default to standard gear values with basic parameters eg Pressure Angle = 20 degrees, DP = 16, tooth N = 32 will produce a standard involute spur gear, however also have the option of changing some additional parameters to modify the gear geometry when that is required.   Gears follow relatively simple mathematical rules and I think this should be relatively straight forward to code and implement.   Thanks Show More

It would be nice to have a "dark UI" option for the interface. Sometimes It just feels a bit easier on the eyes.    Nearly every other Autodesk program I have used in the last 10 years has this option. Its weird it hasn't been implemented in Fusion 360 as of yet.         Show More

We need simple weld symbols I can’t believe I’m having to ask... Show More

The ability to create motion studies is powerful, but not intuitive to use for creating and exploring complex motions that want to be documented in an animation. Animation right now seems to be geared to making exploded views and does not take advantage of the joints in an assembly. We need to combine these two in the Animation workspace; the constraints of motion provided by the joints, and the ease of setting positions and keyframes in animation. I don't want to have to guess at how many degrees I want a joint to move in relation to another joint that is also moving; I want to drag the parts and have them constrained by the joints to the point in time and position I want to get to, and then capture that in the keyframe. Dragging constrained parts would save alot of time setting up not only a motion study, but allowing it in the animation space would let you save it as video also.  Show More

Currently there is no straightforward way to copy a sketch to another design   Copy and paste would be very convenient Show More

I would like to see more advance text features. Like adding text that follows a spline, edge or line. And options to mirror text en align text. See for example the solidwork text tool. Show More

I think it would be great if Autodesk could make an Emboss feature somehow similar to the feature you have in Inventor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRAIIM4_KRI   It would be great if we could use this feature with text, sketch and imported svg files.     Thanks, CA Show More

It's easy to get the origin planes confused from time to time.   I'd find it very useful to have the xy/xz/yz labels on them like below.         Show More

I was having a really hard time doing a type of precision modeling without Object Snap, I honestly think this should be on top of the todo list. Object Snap should work in all 3 workspace. Below is a list of the ones I'm used to having:   Show More

It's extremely tedious to  have to draw the same shape on multiple faces without a simple click-copy-paste function, for relocation to another plane. Further to that, the ability for said pasted sketch to be snapped to the center of the original if it's needing to overlap. Show More

Hello,  first let me say that I'm enjoying learning Fusion 360.  Being a 20yr Solidworks guy, I've got some habits that are really hard to break.  I'm not requesting that you turn your software into Soldiworks, but I do have an easy enhancement request that would make a lot of sense.   When I model parts, I create sketches and the extrude, revolve, sweep & etc - same as solidworks.  However, in Solidworks I have my preferences set (as well as my designers) to prompt the designer to enter the name of the feature when its created.  Naming your features as you make them is a great way to be able to quickly go back and modify things and understand the history tree better.   I'm sorry, but with Fusion its difficult to understand the history tree, see the second pic below.  It takes forever.  Going back and giving the features names (after the fact) helps, but in order to see them I have to carefull hover over the tree with my mouse and wait 100ms for the tag to pop up.  Why not assign a keyboard key (say n) that when pressed shows the names of all the features.       Yes, the text gets int the way of the other icons, but all I need is for them to pop up so I can find my feature, as soon as I realase the n key, they go away.   Thanks and keep up the good work, Walt Dannhardt Show More

another easy one.     using tab to select the next function....   one of 100 places this would be practical is "mirror"... say, in a sketch, you want to mirror a line..   click the line... hit TAB and select the line you want to use as the mirror plane.. hit enter...   currently you have to drag your mouse over to the line, click it, drag your mouse to the box, click the next step, drag your mouse back, this takes way too much time and puts un needed milage on the mouse.  i've tried everything... it doesn't seem to exist.    hitting enter, like you would in Rhino, basically either cancels it or says ok.. not sure which, but the box goes away and i have to start over.      Show More

Hi, I would like to suggest a new feature to Fusion 360:   Flattening or unroll surfaces (3D to 2D) and export it to .dxf,  like as it is possible in Rhino 3D or in ExactFlat.   Video for Rhino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FzTvxg88T4   Rhino commands: http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/seealso/sak_flatten.htm   ExactFlat Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwrRpTYTiI       Show More

Hi everyone, pretty much explained with the title, but it the drawings look pretty ugly with the current state of line weights and the inability to change the size of the font when making drawings from the model.    The line weights could be preloaded into different international standards for specific regions and customisable too. Perhaps allow the user to also use fonts that Illustrator, Photoshop, MS Office etc uses   Show More

There should be the ability to create broken views in the Drawings mode. By this I mean that if I have a long part (e.g. a shaft) I should be able to show only the interesting parts of the shaft, allowing me to scale up that view for better visibility. At the present time I have to put in the entire shaft at a very tiny scale, then create detail views for the interesting parts.   This functionality is apparently available in Inventor, as people are submitting questions about it and showing images of what I'd like here: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/dimension-breaks-in-broken-view/td-p/5414499 Show More

There should be some way that you can use parameters in text equations just like you can in inventor. I have to make tools that are very similar to one another and they need to be engraved based on on the dimensions of that tool. It would be a thousand times easier to be able to change one number (the size of the tool) and in addition to the dimension changing, the text changes too.    Another thing I would like to point out is although you can somewhat constrain text in Fusion, it seems to remove any and all constraints when I just want to change the text property and not things like height and angle, which is a huge pain when trying to center text.   I saw this post here a month prior but it it got no responses so I thought I'd throw it out there again.    https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/autofill-text-field-based-on-a-parameter/idi-p/6477679   This issue with text is by far my biggest gripe with Fusion 360. Its amazing software but if this was implemented it be the best hands down. Show More

The other thread on grouping objects in a sketch had been archived. Why was the request archived (the reason did not seem logical)? In SolidWorks objects may be grouped together into a block. In Autocad items may be grouped into a block. Until a block function is added to Fusion I have been exporting 2D geo to AutoCAD LT editing it and re-inserting it into Fusion. Please add a block option to move objects together in the sketch portion of Fusion.  Show More

Please add support for people creating and using Fusion 360 files that only exist on the local system, and are never transmitted to the cloud (for any reason).   The present situation (Cloud only) excludes everyone who works on confidential (for any reason) designs.   For them to use Fusion 360 means they need to learn and use two tools (eg Solidworks + Fusion 360, Rhino + Fusion 360, etc).  At a guess :), most people won't bother, and will just keep using/investing in their current tools (eg Solidworks, Rhino, whatever).   Adding support for "local only" files should allow these people to then use Fusion 360, potentially moving to it as their primary platform.   Note - This "idea" seems to have been skirted around before (eg http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/cloud-and-online-work/idi-p/4652787), but not directly requested. Show More

It would be great if you could extrude/cut from a plane/surface along a specified axis rather than on the axis of the plane that the sketch is on. You can do this in Solidworks. I put the picture below to show what I mean. The red dotted lines show a simple example of what this would look like in context. I'd like to extrude/cut in a direction that's goes along a separate axis of the plane.     Show More

Support for nesting of multiple profiles and part-in-part nesting with part and sheet offsets and orientation constraints would be great! Show More

It would be cool to have a joint which is a slider, but can follow a selected curved line path.   To set it, one would select a line instead of a point, and then the joint origin would snap to the center of the guide line's length. Outer travel limits would be defined by the line's start and end points respectively, then the dialog would allow setting additional + and - travel limits within this range.   If the selected line is a closed loop or circle, etc, then provide a checkbox for unlimited circular travel, and/or start/stop distances or "phase angle" like a model train set, for example. Phase angle would be calculated by the length of the travel distance = 360 degrees; half the travel distance would be 180 degrees, etc. Or, you could use percentage of length as path waypoint references as well. I am sure someone already did this in other software, so look up examples to see how this kind of animal is mapped out to nice dialog box options. Show More

The threads contained within Fusion are quite comprehensive, however obviously can't cover all possibilites. I would like to see an option where non-standard threads can be correctly modelled from within Fusiion by selecting the thread specifications. For example I currently have a Schaublin Swiss thread which is 19.70 mm 45/5 butress thread at 1.667 mm pitch (no I'm not making this up!). Unremarkably it doesn't feature prominently in thread lists, however there are other examples where it would also be desirable to be able to modify standard threads as required. Show More

I would like to suggest that the team change the default metric thread tool data from the finest pitch to standard coarse pitch as the default setting. As a rule, metric coarse is used for 99% of engineering applications and is the preferred pitch unless there is a good reason to use something else. I know many of my friends in the US who don't work as much with metric become confused by this, and callout bizarre threads simply because they are in thread tables. Software that defaults to similarly bizarre default settings isn't helping them making the transition to metric! Meanwhile those of us who work in metric all the time find constantly having to specify a pitch each time a different sized thread is specified annoying, as thread pitch is not normally called out if metric coarse is being used, and defaulting to M4, M5, M8 etc would help improve flow.   This may be a small point for some, but is an irritation that can be easily fixed and I think would greatly assist those who aren't as familiar with the metric system. Show More

OK, this is what I want to do.   I use free move most of the time when moving or copying along axis. Something I really miss is the ability to move to a snap point on another object. Sure it finds endpoints but not the midpoints on a edge. Strangely the move tool itself snaps onto almost everything but will not find the destinated midpoint. Point to Point will locate needed points but that throws you off the axis.   I think this is a basic simple command that should be implemented.    Matias...       Show More

The idea is to integrate sketchbook drawing in F360 with two modes, "3D Canvas" and "Blueprint Box".   3D Canvas: Create the raw form of your design then convert the solid/surfaces in a 3D canvas to draw details and variants quickly on the surface or project lines on it:   The raw form:   The 3D Canvas with some sketch lines:   Blueprint Box: Create a box with editable dimensions, then choose a face and sketch the monge projection. Do the same with the other faces. Back in model mode, each face should appear in the corresponding orthogonal view with its opacity control.   Editing a face (The other faces for reference):   The box preview with the sketches:   Show More

I have an assembly that I dragged in components from the data panel. The components appear with a link on them as expected. Just like in solidworks, if I make changes to the model elsewhere it updates in the assembly. However, unlike Solidworks I'm unable to modify the components from within the assembly. My workflow consists of modifying components in the context of other components but I'm unable to do this. The only thing I can do is right click > open and modify the component on its own. In assemblies that have components that are local and not linked I'm able to activate them and edit them in context. Show More

Can be this kind of fillet will be added in the fillet feature  SO that i have an option instead of this Thanks Show More

I'm trying to change the reference link on my drawing from part "A" to Part "B." Is this even possible?   Here is an example of what I need to do: 1. Lets say Part A is a Cylinder with Diameter of 90mm, and I make a drawing for it. 2. Now, lets say Part B is a cylinder as well but this time the Diameter is 124mm....Therefore, I dont want to re-create the drawing again right?...so, what should I do? I can not find a way of doing this, except re-creating the drawing again.   Here is what I tried to do: 1. I duplicated the Part A with his drawing. 2. I renamed the duplicated part to Part B. 3. When open the duplicate 3D part and changed it....the drawing was still linked to Part A, not to the duplicated one (Part B)....   I hope there is a way to this. (Catia or Solidworks have this functionality and I hope Fusion 360 too)   Any help will be greatly appreciated!   Show More

  Users often need to set parts in positions that are relative to a general frame of reference. As it stands the current Construction option-set only considers planes, lines and points relative to the features of a body or sketch. Moreover, there is no feature to directly create construction lines at offset positions from body edges, faces or points. Most vector drawing applications offer a global reference via canvas-level guides.   In the case of Fusion, the user would have the ability to draw/create sketches/bodies by placing vertices on absolute coordinate values within the grid. Currently there is no way to specify the coordinates of a vertex when inserting a point.   The user would have by default the grid's centre as the origin of the coordinate system, or define a custom origin. Grid-level guide overlays could be defined at specific coordinates. The process of creating guides would be similar to the 'insert edge' command: The function would insert color-coded grid lines at precise coordinates (interactively, and/or by typing a value) within the grid. All three grid planes would support their own set of guides. Guides could be toggled in one of two modes: Orthographic would mean the guides would move with the grid planes, and 3D would mean the guides would remain as line segments in space, independently of the grid plane they were created on. Show More

I would like to be able to see and edit dimensions associated with a feature without entering the sketch or feature.   Explanation: Right now in Fusion 360, I have to remember which feature or sketch a dimension is a part of (since they are treated separately), then either double click the feature/sketch in the timeline, or right click and choose edit.  The timeline rolls back temporarily, so you only see what the model looked like when the feature/sketch was created.   Then double click the dimension to edit it.   In Solidworks, I can click on a feature in the tree or on any face that is a part of the feature in the model, and all the associated dimensions will appear on top of the model in its current state.  Then I can edit any of those dimensions with a single click (or a double-click for no rebuild after).  Total of 2 (or 3) clicks, with little to no extra time spent searching for a particular feature earlier in the tree.       To be clear, the main issue here isn't the number of clicks, but the lack of information about a feature within the context of the more complete design.  Solidworks lets you edit a feature early in the tree, without taking you out of the context you're in when you decide to make the change.  Fusion 360 forces you out of that context, temporarily rolling back to the sketch/feature in question, making it harder to predict the downstream effects on the rest of the timeline.   I know that in the example I give here, I can just use the push/pull tool to modify that height in Fusion, and it changes the height within the extrude feature (which is awesome, by the way).  But I think that even on something this simple, it helps to see the other dimensions in that feature at the same time to help you dial in your changes.   Thanks!   -Eitan   (This idea was proposed over a year ago, but it got archived due to having too many ideas in one post:  http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/improve-viewing-of-information-about-sketch-modeling-features/idi-p/5861463) Show More

The rendering capability within Fusion 360 can give almost photographic quality results, which is excellent, but not for all purposes. Renders used for technical illustration  benefit from a slightly different approach, and that is rendered with edges, and hidden edges removed. You actually offer this as a style option in normal modelling mode, so could you consider offering it for the rendering mode. This  illustration using the technique shows the impro vement in clarity that can be achieved when using the technique   Show More

First, thank you to the Fusion 360 team.  This is an awesome product.  One feature that would help someone like myself would be the abilty to add and edit wires.  Being able to easily model and iterate on wire routing in a product design would be great. Specifically I'm thinking of being able to set a start and end point for the wire.  Then specify the length and diameter.  Fusion would then generate a body that could be dragged around and would flex or bend.  and optional parameter like minimum bend radius would be helpful.     Show More

Hello,   I appreciate the continual improvement with Fusion 360.  I would like to suggest this idea if it is not already in the works.  I have come across times when I would like to flip sides of the leader with a dimension but I can't and the drawing can look messy because the dimensions can be to close together when flipping sides of the leader would be a quick fix.  Please see attached image Show More

The Material's Library on Fusion 360 is like a Kindergarten of materials. It is nice, is helps in extreme situations, but needs to go to school and to the university to be considered "professional".   In a normal work, the user makes a model, and want to put a specific material and a color to show the clients. This specific material couldn't be for God's shake "Plastis-Opaque-Blue"...It need to be for example a PLA, or a PET or whatever plastic exist in the wolrd. Only then, is a good design, taking in consideration the details as wich material should be ok or not in the manufacturing process.   Please, consider to give to the Material's Library and extremly usefull improvement as this or the next release.   Thanks! Show More

I really love the new wood shaders, I think it would be awesome if you could exten the collection wood shaders to include wood boards like plywood, particleboard and OSB Show More

Much of the open source hardware community is developing designs in OpenSCAD.  Importing STL (when that is finally implemented) and building a model on top of that would be doable but it would make models much more reusable if Fusion 360 had a module for importing/exporting OpenSCAD files directly. Show More

I found that others are having the same dispute as I am with the 2d drawings. The need to have control over line weight and color. The current drawings appear very "clunky" as they are. Perhaps having layer control for drawings with line weight and color specified for each layer would be a good idea. Show More

I think it would me great to able to pull textures or maps off of photographs and apply them as meshes directly to a surface.  I think there are a few other software packages that can do this, and it would greatly improve usability when 3D printing and CNC routing complex objects. Show More

Being able to design and apply surface textures to models for 3D printing would be a nice feature.   Like being able to create dimpled or raised dot surfaces to increase grip or traction.   Being able to apply this to mesh sculpted surfaces and body is what I am looking for.   Generate simple to complex textures and apply them to entire bodies and also designate an area to apply the texture with in that boundary.   Not an easy task, but would be an awesome feature to simplify model construction and enhance the end product.   Thanks,   Steve Mose   Show More

Hi, I'm sure this was already requested and I might be missing something. If not I'd really like to see an option in settings to choose the location cached files are saved to. It's a pain to have to fill up my SSD just because I can't change the save location to my HDD. It would also make it significantly easier to locate locally stored files. Show More

Right now you can only use one element form a sketch to be part of your "Splitting Tool" in the "Split Face" dialogue, it would be nice if you could use several, it is already possible to choose several body elements so it should be possible for sketch elements to I think 🙂   Image shows a sketc with 3 elements and I am only able to use one of them as a Splitting Tool.   Show More

I am used to work with Inventor 2009 and recently switched to Autodesk Fusion. I used to provide my suppliers with DXF files (made form drawings) which they can use directly to drive their machines. This worked perfectly.   Fusion on the other hand doesn't have the possibility of DXF output from a drawing. Yes, you can do this from a sketch but 3d models are often much more complicated than just a simple sketch. So this is no appropriate solution.   My suppliers cannot work with the DWG 2013 output that Fusion gives...   If you ask me Fusion should provide the possibility to output a drawing to DXF. Show More

Hello Community,   i have experienced a common problem with my designs. While exporting DXF-Files from sketches, they are useless when opened with a third party program. I found a workaround on the forum that works. The basic problem is that Fusion uses the highest version of the dxf Format, but a lot of other systems can´t read that. So it would make things much easier, if it would be possible to choose which format will be used to export the dxf. Show More

A key feature that I use a lot at work and as a hobbyist is the variable helix from solidworks.  Currently, the only way that I know how to create one through fusion is to create a coil and project the helix you get from that onto a surface.  This doesn't always work if the surface isn't uniform.  The thread feature also doesn't allow for different shapes (or the process of getting custom shapes is overly difficult and requires extra tedious steps) making it difficult to have custom threads.  Simply adding a variable helix feature would allow for custom threading via the sweep feature. Show More