Fusion 360

Edit Balloon Sizes & Text Heights

In the August update to Fusion 360 we added control over Text Height Groups. This enhancement give users control over the text based annotations on drawings, including Balloons! The default setting for Text Height Groups is “Medium”, changing this to “Small”, or “Large” with scale all text elements down or up proportionally. Dimension arrows, text and extension line gaps are also scaled. The…

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Back To The Future – The Toyota Pickup Well, just about! I was asked if I could help make a part for a 1980 model Toyota Hilux Pickup (very similar to Marty’s in Back to the Future). The part in question is a small air vent coupler that sits under the dashboard. The original truck only has a right-hand side version; the left-hand side had disintegrated over its 45-year life. Lukily we had one to…

AutoConstrain just got a fantastic upgrade that’s more powerful and user-friendly than ever! If you often work with turned parts or enjoy creating revolves, you’ll love our new Diametric dimensions feature. It automatically identifies your center lines and provides the diameter dimensions you’ve been looking for. Using AutoConstrain is now even easier! You can edit your sketch dimensions while…

AutoConstrain for Fusion is here! Fusion Subscribers will start getting access to this new tool from today, as it is rolled out with the January update.AI powered AutoConstrain in Fusion automatically identifies and applies sketch constraints and dimensions to unconstrained sketch geometry. Located under the new Automate tab in the Sketch environment, AutoConstrain will endeavour to leave you…

Ever want to create a drawing with mixed units? Here’s the fastest way to do it. Using “Duplicate Sheet”, to copy the original sheet, then editing the units on one of the dimensions of the duplicated sheet. Next, use “Match Dimension” to copy across the dimension override to the rest of the sheet. Take a look at the video above, note that overrides for each dimension type will need to be…

The ISO standard for hole notes ISO 15786 does not include the same symbols as ANSI/ASME, but instead uses U, V, W, Y, as per the table below (extract from ISO 15786:2008(E)) Below is a comparison of ISO Versus ANSI/ASME below:

I’ve shifted gears a little, and moved from being the product manager for drawings, to being the product manager for Design AI on Fusion. You may have seen the announcements at Autodesk University, we’re going to ship AutoConstrain very soon. This is an AI tool to help you complete your sketches, by using AI to suggest the best Constraints and dimensions to fully constrain your sketches. I’ve…

Chuffed to bits, to say that Varun and I will be presenting the Ultimate Guide to Drawing Automation at AU in San Diego later this year. This session will also be live-streamed (no pressure!). This is your chance to learn about drawing automation from the folks who built it. We’ll show you how to set up and get the most out of Fusion Drawing Automation. We may even have some new “stuff” to share…

If you’ve ever wanted to move a detail view, or a section view to another sheet in Autodesk Fusion, but not been sure how, this is the video you have been looking for. One of the secrets, is that you can move any view off of a sheet, and it will not be visible in PDF exports or the cloud viewer. Combine that knowledge with the “Duplicate Sheet” command, and you now have some powerful tools…

I’ve recently helped a colleague with a tech support issue for Autodesk Fusion. I thought the best thing to do, is to put my go-to solutions into a single place, in the hope that this may be useful to someone else. Setting up the environment that your software runs in is key, specifically if you have a high-end graphics card. So here it is, 4 things you can do to get your system running…

I recently replied to a forum past asking if it is possible to add a watermark of a company logo, to a drawing in Autodesk Fusion. This is my workflow, the secret sauce, is to add it to the border.

I’ve seen a couple of questions about only showing visible components from a model in a drawing. So here we go! This is a 2 part-er, as the first part is creating the selection set for the drawing, the second is all about re-using the initial reference. Remember to select the Contents of model that you want to use for your initial reference in the drawings workspace. Drawing…

Fusion uses 3 options for templates when creating drawing Automations. From Scratch Uses Autodesk defaults. This is the workflow built to let you test drawing automation without any setup. Drawing Template – Preferred workflow Honors the settings in Template’s Document Settings. Create a template and save your settings in the template. Stores your automation settings, as well as your company…

Photo by Karol D on Pexels.com Fusion, like any CAD System, needs a bit of graphics setup to get the best out of it. If you are running a Windows PC, there’s a 9 out of 10 chance, that you do not have the latest graphics driver from the graphics card manufacturer installed. Windows likes to control which drivers are installed and which apps have access to “High Performance” settings. You need…

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My Colleague Lee asked me about inspection dimensions and inspection bubbles for 2D drawings in Fusion 360. I put this quick video together to show what’s available today. Another option for bubbles is to use a font like Numberpile

You might be running a PC with an older graphics card. On older NVIDIA graphics cards (generally Kepler), the drivers are no longer being updated by NVIDIA, as they have retired the cards, this makes supporting them a little trickier. I have observed that installing some missing binaries which are usually packaged with the driver, resolves the “cursor” issue, these can be downloaded…