Ever wanted to place a balloon without a leader onto a drawing in Fusion 360? I've recently shared a workaround, and thought I should document it. The trick is to download and install the Numberpile font. It comes in 2 variants, Numberpile & Numberpile Reversed. The "Reversed" version is more traditional (see bubbles 1 &... Continue Reading →
Auxiliary Views in Fusion 360
In the May 2022 release of Fusion 360, we added Auxiliary views. My colleague Kyle put together a great quick tip video: https://youtu.be/97Ku7VuekIg It's worth noting that when selecting an edge, you can pull a view off of it, either perpendicular (left, as per video above), or aligned to the edge (right). In the images... Continue Reading →
Hole Charts from STEP Files
I was asked how to get hole information from a STEP file into a Hole Chart in Fusion 360. As you know, STEP files are a neutral file format that do not contain any features. Fusion 360 has a really neat tool called “Find Features”, which allows you to recognise the features in an imported... Continue Reading →
Hole Charts in Fusion 360 Drawings
In the last update to Fusion, we added hole charts, they're pretty awesome. For all the details, and a handy video, check out the blog post I wrote for the official Fusion 360 blog by clicking on the image below. Click me for more details and a video
Rev Tables, Markers & Clouds
I wrote a blog post for the official Fusion blog. The March release of Fusion now has revision markers/tags, clouds and tables. Click on the image below for the blog post and YT video. If you are trying to map your current title block Revision Attribute to match the new Revision table, make sure you... Continue Reading →
Jan/Feb 2022 Drawing Updates
It's update time! The Jan/Feb release of Fusion 360 has 3 great updates to the drawings environment. We've updated our welding standard for ANSI users. The latest AWS welding standard is now available to choose in Document Settings. Our welding dialogue now shows the standard in use. Hole & Thread notes have had a HUGE... Continue Reading →
Setting up 3rd Angle ISO Templates
By default, ISO templates in Fusion 360 use 1st Angle projection. Setting up 3rd Angle drawing templates is really simple. The video below outlines the steps to set up a 3rd Angle drawing template in Fusion 360. https://youtu.be/hd3MzcuFRKg
Fusion Drawings Wrapped 2021
We've had a busy year on the Fusion 360 drawings team, below is a video showing the customer facing enhancements that we made in 2021. https://youtu.be/CT5UqwpH38o We have a lot planned in 2022. As we mature the drawings workspace, we will be adding even more functionality. If you'd like to get in touch to discuss... Continue Reading →
Nov/Dec New Drawing Features
The November/December Fusion 360 update has some really nice enhancements for Manage Extension users, we now support additional Manage Extension Properties in the title block, check out the official Fusion 360 blog for more on this. Improvements and Bug fixes: In addition to the new features mentioned above, the team spent a large portion of... Continue Reading →
September Drawing Enhancements
I recently wrote a blog post for the official Fusion 360 blog, outlining some of the latest features that we added to the last release of Fusion 360. I thought I'd share a video of the new tools in this blog post. The main features that we added in the September release were: Arrange Dimensions... Continue Reading →
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