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In Fusion, the history of all operations are listed together at the bottom of the screen, rather than as a tree tied to each part.Īs far as I can tell, there’s no way to label operations, which makes me nervous about doing anything complex - my simple chair of 4 unique parts is basically illegible: ( Update: Turns out I failed to constrain the initial sketch point to the origin, so everything was under-constrained.ĭimensioning part of the sketch to the origin or adding a “Fix” constraint turns lots of lines black i.e. It wouldn’t surprise me if my chair has a few underconstrained bits, which makes it feel even more necessary to manually backup/version things, lest an accidental drag/drop mess something up. I’m not sure how to tell when sketch geometry is under-constrained (unlike Inventor, which helpfully draws constrained points/lines in purple and unconstrained in green). This is infuriating, especially since there’s no way to leave the parameters window open while editing features/sketches. Parameters have to be defined in advance ( Modify > Change Parameters) they cannot be created on the fly by dimensioning something as, e.g., width = 10cm Unlike SolidWorks and Inventor’s “parts” and “assemblies”, Fusion just has “components” which can be nested within each other. You can check out our conversation for details. Note: Craig Andera wrote in to clarify some of the issues I ran into below. (Or export to the cloud while working offline? No idea what happens there.) Initial impressions If this happens, close the export and start over. Note that unchecking Save to my computer automatically checks Save to a project in the cloud, which is then impossible to uncheck. I handle versioning / backups myself by using File > Export and checking Save to my computer: The toggle is inexplicably hidden behind a clock: However, at some point that turned into “chair2 v0 v0”, at which point I decided to take everything offline before Fusion 360 lost my work. That’s cool, sounds like there’s some built in versioning. I told Fusion my project was “chair2” and it opened a tab called “chair2 v0”. Sometimes Fusion 360 starts in 5 seconds other times it literally takes a few minutes, with Activity Monitor reporting “Application Not Responding”. So I reinstalled Fusion 360 directly from Autodesk’s website (Version )Īpparently this includes a 30 day trial no idea what will happen after that, but it’s good motivation to finish the chair I’m making. I first installed Fusion 360 via the Mac App Store, but this turned out to have OS X sandbox limitations that prevented plugins from fully accessing the filesystem.
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Since Fusion 360 does work on OS X (and because Autodesk is pushing it hard into the hobbyist market) I thought it’d be worth exploring. I was happy with Inventor, but unfortunately it’s Windows-only and while traveling I only have my Mac laptop. Overall, I’ve probably spent just a hundred hours using CAD packages, learning via video training courses and relentless clicking through menus. I’m a CAD advanced amateur: I first learned SolidWorks to laser cut tetrominoes, then I used Autodesk Inventor extensively to design and CNC mill my cell phone explore workshop designs, and generate construction plans for a sauna (writeup on that TBD). My first impressions on Fusion 360, in the context of modeling and building this chair: Fusion 360 first impressions ← Back to Kevin's homepage Published: 2019 March 27 Last updated: 2019 April 10