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Products have become complex and engineers are more frequently asked to leave specialized roles and to take on a wide variety of tasks that are beyond their traditional responsibilities. When adding a dimensional or geometric constraint if you want to select the midpoint of a line or an arc then select the constraint press and hold the shift key then move your cursor close to the mid pint area of the geometry and the cursor will snap to the midpoint as shown in the animated gif below.The demand placed on today’s engineers goes above and beyond the job description. To convert a sketch into construction geometry simply select the sketch in the sketch environment and hit the X key from your keyboard and the selected sketch will be converted to construction geometry. For extruding the text “explode text” is not needed and a text can be extruded even without exploding it.Īdding distance constraint between two circles adds constraint between centre of the circles but if you want to add that between points of tangency then select D command (for dimension constraint) then right-click and select “Pick Circle/Arc Tangent” from the context options and apply the constraints again and this time it will be added between tangent points and not the centre. To convert a text into geometry object you need to explode it which can be done by selecting the text and selecting the explode text option from the right context menu. When making sketches on planes obscured by other 3D geometries you can slice the part which is above the plane of construction by selecting the slice option from the constraints panel while in the sketch environment as shown in the animated gif image below. If you want to temporarily disable the snapping to nearest points, then press and hold ctrl key and it will stop snapping to any point if ctrl is pressed. When making drawing in the sketch environment Fusion automatically snaps to nearby reference points. When you type S in the sketch environment or 3D environment a shortcut panel will show up where you can search for the commands using the command name and you can even pin the frequently used commands on this panel for quick access as shown in the animated gif image below.
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Take the reference of the following animated image for more. You will get a menu of overlapping items, select your required object from this list. When objects like plane etc are obscured by other objects and you want to select the hidden objects then click and hold your cursor above overlapping objects. Take the reference of attached animated gif image for more. Let go your mouse click to again make a line. When making a line using line command go to the endpoint of the line again when the command is active and hold down the left mouse button and move it outwards, it will now create an arc if the mouse click is pressed. To repeat the last used command in Fusion 360 simply right click hold your cursor and drag your mouse up as shown in the GIF image below.
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#FUSION 360 PROJECT TO SURFACE UPDATE#
Currently, the tips are related to modelling and sketching environment only but I will soon update the list with tips from other workspaces like sculpting (form), assembly, drafting and surfacing.
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In this list, I have compiled my favourite Fusion 360 tips and shortcuts that you should definitely use in your drawing workflow.