Fusion 360: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Stay on top of the latest Fusion 360 techniques and tools.

Introduction

• Welcome

Fusion 360 Tips and Tricks

• Z-up for 3D printing
• Sketch and modeling environment
• Selecting nested objects
• Intersect: Protruding text on faces of a cylinder
• Center of rotation in camera orbit
• Snap to grid and incremental move
• Capture Design History
• Sharing files inside Fusion 360
• File version and file promotion
• Custom keyboard shortcuts
• Create an arc in the Line command
• S key
• Redefining sketch planes
• Window and crossing selection
• Terminating line chain creation
• Right-click to grab sketch constraints
• Reuse sketch profiles
• Find in browser
• Click and hold a line
• Holding Shift when on hor/ver constraint
• Import a CAD file without internet connection
• Disabling inferred constraints
• 3D sketching
• Locking views for render
• Selection set
• Named views
• Component color cycling
• DXF files in Fusion 360
• Removing material with shell
• Dimensioning circle and arc tangent
• Object snap in forms
• Formulas and mathematical operations in dimensions
• Concentric holes
• Forward slash on the timeline
• Component reference between two faces
• Merge bodies into sheet metal
• Identifying internal volume
• Animate model
• Exporting components from an assembly
• Adding a thumbnail
• Using sketch entities for component reference
• Joint limits
• Joint origin
• Creating a knurl
• Create components from bodies
• Resetting default view
• Multibody part modeling in Fusion 360
• Section analysis
• Measure tool
• Refer a friend to Fusion 360
• Setting multiple viewports
• Creating motion studies
• Creating a motion link
• Contact sets
• Cloud credits in Fusion 360
• Inserting McMaster-Carr components
• Importing SVG files into Fusion 360
• Units in values field
• Project geometry
• Scale entire sketch at first dimension
• Show ghosted result body
• Mouse pan, zoom, and orbit preferences
• New component
• Repeat last command
• Creating a dimple
• Deselect
• Select parent
• Reset default UI
• Reveal folders in Data Panel
• Cache project and offline cache
• Press and hold to trim
• Selecting sketch chained entities
• AnyCAD for Fusion 360

Divide and conquer

STL to quads

Add face and edge in sculpt

Add crease in sculpt

Grow selection

Fit curves to mesh section

Desktop connector

Trimming surfaces

Paste new component

Insert Derive

Free move in insert component

Lock to faces in joint origin selection

Understanding chamfers

Inserting tables into drawings

Cost estimation

Arrange tool

DXF import utility

Component versus bodies

Add a command to the toolbar

Text on path

Comments in Fusion 360

Fusion 360 in web browser

Thin extrude

Untrim surface