Fusion What's New | March 2024 | STL Export | BOM | Drawings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video we are going to take a look at some of the "What's New" content in Autodesk Fusion. There have been a lot of updates, but we are going to focus on some that are closer to the core of design. If you want to check out all the what's new topics be sure to look at the Fusion Blog here www.autodesk.com/products/fus...
We will see what has changed for STL exports, the new BOM, and a few updates to Drawings including dimensions to min/max of arcs and the new perspective view. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Looking forward to your upcoming automated drawings video!!
Awesome! BOM is here! Thank you!
I had nothing to do with it :) but you are welcome lol
Hope they improve the bom in the near future - changing the names and, especially, descriptions in the BOM menu would save me a lot of time
That would be huge!!!
When can we get improvements in the Render workspace? I’d love more control over adding light sources, light styles, and all the other lighting characteristics. In short, I’d love to use my studio photography background to set up my own render lighting. Solidworks does this really well; surey fusion can get a little better at it.
I also wish we could locally render videos in fusion not the simulation recording or the cloud video render
Yeah it would be nice but I doubt that will happen honestly. Because Autodesk has more software geared toward render/viz stuff. Also SWx dropped photoview360 for 2024 and now only Visualize(bunkspeed) is for rendering. So gotta stick with 2023 if you want PV360 still.
With Fusion I agree, you can fake lights a bit but you really don't have great control over them. You can import your own HDR scenes and those can have lighting but that still doesn't get around the camera thing. For a steep learning curve Blender is probably the best option. After that Lighttracer which is $10/mo or you can buy it for $130. Its a web based thing. Aside from that you start getting into Keyshot which is a bigger price jump, then into tools that are on par with Blender.
yeah that would be nice to not need the cloud render for turntable or motion studies. It would be great if you could do more with the animation other than a screen capture to avi as well...
The new stl export sounds great, but I always use the "3D print plus" addin so will it be better? let's try.
Nah keep doing what you are doing! Autodesk just fixed the problem when you use File > Export that required cloud conversion.
3d print plus is just the "Save as mesh" option in fusion, but you can also have some extra controls on things like scale, name and orientation. Stick with that! I doubt that will ever get baked into Fusion since the manufacturing workspace is also a 3d print slicer and they likely won't want to add those extra controls, but that add-in is free!
Auto Bill of Materials is awesome
The export function is 2 years old? I've not used anything else since I started using F360
Export has been around since Fusion was a thing, but the problem was that it used cloud translation. So if you hit Export and saved as an STL locally it took awhile. The Save As Mesh from the browser or 3d print options give you more control.
Is it just me, the BOM feature is not working, won't show any of the components or subcomponents in any design, just the main Assembly...
Seems to be working ok for me. I checked a design with external and internal sub components with no problem. So yours is just empty at the sub component level? What happens when you hit the refresh click button next to the name of your assembly in the BOM view?
Thanks for the update Matt. Bit of a 🥱 though.
Yeah. There are more updates I didn't cover here to simulation and other areas. One other that seems to be nice is on insert fasteners. some favorites options and some more fasteners added to the library. Still on the fence there as i use mcmaster still to insert fasteners.
I have used the 3D print command from the Utilities section, and it has always been offline.
Exactly! One big pain point from a lot of users who don't realize that is an STL exporter and not just a "send to 3d printer" is that File > Export to STL was painfully slow and often times failed or lacked control. autodesk just "offlined" the file >export, but you still have more control by just doing Send to 3d print or save as mesh (both the same just one has the "send to 3d print utility" box checked by default)
STL export is potentially useless improvement as all slicers forked from prusa slicer support step format. I'm curious if they improved stability of this software.
Yeah and as I stated in the video I would still use Save As Mesh, but I know a lot of users (as indicated by the number of reddit posts) still go to file export and wonder what the heck is going on.
I don't have any stability issues with Fusion and I have been using it since 2015. Generally go weeks if not longer without any software crash. Can't say as much for Solidworks.
Still been having trouble opening fusion exported dwg and opening them in other softwares
Rich, where are you exporting the DWG from? Right-click on a sketch? Sheet metal flat pattern? or a detailed drawing? I have come across times where the sheet metal flat pattern export doesn't seem to work. a sketch or the drawing have never given me trouble though.
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign From a detailed drawing and DXFs, it exports them in the latest format 2013, my company been having trouble with it for a while now, solidworks struggle to use it but autodesk trueview theyre fine, so I use PDFs when i send drawings. Sheet metal flat pattern DXFs seem to work fine for my customers.
Just had a look at the auto bom feature, shame you cant change the part numbers, names and materials in that interface :(
Autodesk should be fixing basic UI problems that have been bugging users for years instead.
anything specific? I don't work for Autodesk but I have a running list :)
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesignOh sure I’ll give a couple very basic things like we need folders in the browser for sketches also why isn’t there an option to easily scale a sketch or a body in any direction, uniform or non-uniform and to a specific size instead of a scale factor? Recently I had a few sketches of some huge flight of stairs on a Mayan pyramid, when I needed to make each step taller I had to redraw the whole thing.
@@mediaeducativa3339 Agree with you on the browser folder thing. I don't know why you can group bodies but not sketches.
There is a scale tool for bodies both uniform and non-uniform. Not sure if that would have worked on your stairs though. For sketch scale yeah its from a point which means that it would drive width and height of a rectangle. Could it have been done with dimensions and a pattern? If you had a pattern along an edge in a sketch you can edit the pattern spacing.
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign I guess Autodesk wants us to group everything into components, as they say this is the “correct” way to go
Dark mode 😩
There is a Dark Mode in PCB, but in the design workspace the best you can do is dark sky background. Funny enough I run pretty much every program in dark mode except CAD. In plasticity at times i find myself wanting a "light" mode :)
Still waiting for improve simulation machining... ;) That sucks.
are you talking about the actual machine simulation for milling/turning?
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign yes actual. They boost something but still generating toolpaths so long for 5 axis machining. Like step and shallow etc
@@mateuszwawak7437 I personally haven't had much trouble with toolpath calculations but they are heavily dependent on a few things of course. And i actually don't use Steep/Shallow as much as I should. Because most of the time I am teaching/training users without the extensions so we generally do a 3d adaptive clear then finish areas manually with a Scallop. If you are using steep/shallow in 3x vs multi-x for example that will have a big impact on the calculation time. Technically it should be able to multi-thread across multiple cores on your machine, but in practice there are factors that affect it like rest machining calculations or your angle limit because it is "model aware" like all the other 3d toolpaths.
Have you done any testing with changing the tolerance value and see how much it affects the calculation times?
Hopefully they have stopped the software crashing quite so much. It has been terrible recently. Crashing and full of bugs.
I have heard that from a few users but I have not experience that. I did crash it a few times in a day but i was working on a really big and complex model trying to do some things it didn't like. In the last year i can count on 1 hand the number of times it crashed and I use it every day.
Do you happen to be on a Mac? Most users I've heard have had issues on Mac.
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign I've had quite a lot of crashes recently, but it's also mostly been on large and or complex designs, and either doing stuff that the software doesnt like, or using some of the new features in ways that may not be optimal. But, a few of them have been while doing very simple things that really surprised me. Running Windows 10 Pro on a fairly powerful CAD laptop and using pretty good modelling methodologies.
Also, when I say a lot, it's a lot for Fusion, still only a few here and there, maybe as many in a few weeks as an afternoon in Solidworks 2023 :D
@@Robinlarsson83 haha. I had SWx23 crash on me the other week with no warning. just shut. that was a new one for me :)
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign yeah, it usually says something :P but damn, SW crashes soo often. I'm amazed that Fusion can both update so much faster than SW and still be orders of magnitude more stable (at least on my system).
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign no, on a PC, windows 10. Other than the crashing, the other thing that it does all the time is fall to the back of the windows tab queue. I take to alt tab to go back to it. This tends to be when I am exporting svg files, which is something I do a lot because I am a 3D printer.
I scanned a muffler that was bent at various angles without a flange.
It was very difficult to align, so how could I reverse engineer it?
thanks,
Carefully :) probably will require a lot of mesh sections sketches to try and find the centerline path of the tubing. If the muffler shape itself is formed or something not from a tube or extrusion you might need to do a lot more work with surfaces.