They have definitely improved the drawing functionality since I last tried making one. As you suggest, they have a ways to go still, but making progress. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I've been in product development for years and like you mentioned, drawings are becoming less used. Most factories I work with are totally happy with a 3D model. That said, here I am learning to do drawings because I need one now :-D Cheers!
This is great. How about a follow up video showing datum points, tolerances, parts tables and more. All the advanced features that are not covered in the documentation for the much improved drawings functions of F360?
Thanks very helpful. There ia another piece of basic information I'd like to understand - how to change coordinate frames on sub-components. When I have a component at an odd angle relative to the main drawing coordinates, and I open a drawing for that sub-component, it places the component in the drawing at the global origin, not a part oriented coordinate - thus at an odd angle for dimensioning. How can we change to coordinates of the part (or the origin to which it is referenced) when placing it on the page?
Fantastic work Kevin. loved the PCD and stretch centre line trick, as I didn't know those ones. Agreed, I personally feel (although ashamed to say it) that the Fusion team are dragging their feet when it comes to drawings (opposed to SW). But I still love everything they've done for us in Industry, Education and Hobby. F360 constantly kick their competition to the curve ;-). Cheers, Aaron.
Hi Kevin, I’m relatively new to fusion 360. If you have a drawing reference to a model, if you alter the model will the drawing update. Or can this not be done in the free Version thank you.
It can be done in all the versions. There is something you need to do to make this happen that isn’t obvious all the time however. Make the changes to your 3D design and then make sure to save it. When you switch back to the drawing you will see a yellow triangle at the top of the screen letting you know your drawing is out of date. Click the triangle and your drawing will then update.
More good stuff! For prototyping stuff, my biggest use for drawings is to create a 1:1 pattern that I can use. I used drawings that way more, before I got the cnc mill, but I'm currently trying to prototype a sheet metal piece. Since there's no print preview when you click print, you have to go the long way around to change any settings......such as changing the "fit to page" back to "normal" or "scaling"(at 100%). Fit to view is nice for the 99% of the printing I do normally.....so it's a pain to change it when printing in from fusion. If I output a PDF, the pdf app gives me an easy way to change it. I was trying to create prints for a multi-component assembly the other day. I couldn't find any option to have it create a drawing for each of the components automatically. I could do a drawing of the whole assy.....and then go back and create individual drawings for each component. How do you handle something like that?
Hi Mike. Go to www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/2d-drawings-check-2018-sneak-peek/ and you will see that they are working on what you want to do.
Hi. It is currently not possible to move something like a detail view from one sheet to a different sheet. Sorry. I believe this will be a planned future enhancement but no clue if or when they may implement that.
Nice Video Sir. I have a question to anyone whom thinks they can answer. I read recently that when doing a drawing only components are individually selectable amongst each other in the 2d Drawing Work Space. Where as bodies cannot be chosen to be selectable as a unique independent unit in a drawing... is this right? Do we really have to make sure that our design process keeps all the parts as components and not as just top of the browser bodies? You know what I mean? I ask because it looks like I might have to start from scratch on a 200 part design and make sure to make each new unit or item as a new component. The Wizard from the Fusion 360 forums recommends always creating a new component and making it active before doing any sketching or 3D etc. right? Well I ask this question but I will look online as well. Thank you and I thought the video was excellent. No on and on lengthy elaborating like that other guy (Lars Live) stuff - which was refreshing because I don't like sitting through 45 minute vidoes that could really be trimmed down to 15mins you know...
I don't think so. I'll be honest in that Fusion drawings need a lot of improvement. I think broken dimensions are in the works, but I'm not sure about the other dim types you are talking about. You can follow this link to see what they are working on and it looks like it was just updated app.mural.co/t/timerahart2/m/timerahart2/1475171276107/0945259b7c22117012173ea2be3c9151fec1f184
Thanks Kevin, inspiring tutorials. I have a question about dimensioning a beam wich I draw with the spline command. Whatever I try, I find no possibility's to ad dimensions this beam in 2D or find a range of coördinates wich I can tranfer to the wood. Do you have any suggestions???
John van Leth Hi John. Splines are mathematical entities so at any chosen point, there is a unique radius. So dimensioning then for things other than length or point to point isn’t going to be available. Wish I had better news for you.
The tutorial was really,good but the drawing capabilities of F360 are very limited especially being able to customize it. The minimum dimension text size is .100 which is too large for highly detailed drawings. This is,one area where 360 needs to do some major improvement.
Dear Sir. I have upload the file with mesh convert. I marked the areas I would like to fill. Is there away I can send you a photo of the object Kind regards Johan
I’m not sure. Are you positive you don’t have drawings? If you have an verified education license, you have access to the most full featured version of Fusion that is possible.
say i want to get a part machined, do i need to provide dimensions on the drawing itself? seems like you specified a few radiuses but not the length of everything else
Hi. The idea with this video was not to show how to produce a proper engineering drawing, but how to use the tools in the drawing environment. If you are providing a CNC manufacturer a 3D model, the drawing is generally used to specify tolerances and critical dimensions. The programmer then uses the skid model to create the toolpaths. Different shops will have different requirements for what they require you to provide to quote or do a job.
@@MechanicalAdvantage thanks! that means each shop could go through with more, or less detail. do you mean they go with STEP file for most dimensions and look for the drawing for more of the specifics?
File format will be shop dependent too. Step is a very common universal format though. You are correct. The drawing gives them the important info, the model is used to program the toolpaths.
Maybe I’m missing something when I do a drawing this way. I’m used to being able to send my drawing straight to a printer .... is that possible in fusion without doing a hand stand. I couldn’t find any way to do it. Thanks.
On my toolbar in the video, do you see the little piece of paper icon with the corner folded down? That is called the file menu. If you click the down arrow next to that icon, you will see that print is an option from that list. You can also do CTRL P on Windows or CMD P on the Mac.
Mechanical Advantage , probably nothing else at this time. AutoCADLT annual license is too expensive and full AutoCAD annual is exorbitantly expensive. I use to use KeyCreator at work, but too expensive for home/hobby use and only runs on Window OS. Note, I have not been able to fully install this software on my MacBook Pro and Autodesk help has been nonexistent.
Yeah. I’m not sure if you know this, but It’s sort of the standard in the US. But it wouldn’t matter if I did the drawing in rods. The concepts are all the same no matter what units are used.
