TUTORIAL: Creating electronic components with Fusion 360

[@mcsniper77]

Please do a tutorial from scratch, component not in the system.

[@qzorn4440]

Most interesting Fusion 360 video. I have been using KiCad, so I would like to know the differences? 😎 Thank you.

[@charlesfedonczak4444]

The management of footprints, symbols, and pin number is far more complicated than it should be. For some reason the tutorial explains how to assign a numbered pin to multiple pads, something rarely, it ever, seen (I have never encountered this in decades), as a result, its unclear how to assign pin numbers to pads. The screen that automatically creates standard packages in 3D from the datasheet parameters is nicely done (although of little value), but everything from that point forward needs a complete overhaul.

[@BlaiseBarrette]

Loved that tutorial! Some great time saving workflows in here!!! I have a question... I created my first part library with several devices inside. Now when I create a new Electronics Design and click the "Add part" tool. I see my library but I would like to see my name in the "Managed Folder" column and it would also be nice to have something in the "Description" column. I looked every where but couldn't find à place to populate this. Thanks!

[@BlaiseBarrette]

OK' I found how to add the description by typing "Description" in the command line of the opened library. Only the "Managed Folder remains!

[@highvoltagefeathers]

How do you save into a library? When saving, only regular folders are available. Start from THE BEGINNING please.....

[@r.alanjones3812]

At 11:34 you right click to bring up a context menu, but this does not seem to work for me?Nothing happens when I click, right or left, on the symbol.

[@Telliria]

Ah, solved it. You want to use the name command. Then the trick is to find the origin of the device. By zooming out so that the schematic becomes very small you just click on it and it should be able to find the origin without you looking for it.

[@Z-add]

What is the plan? How capable are you going to make the electronics part of fusion360. Will it compete with Orcad eda suite?

[@hetismaarten7834]

very nice. This was very helpful for my school project thank you!

[@CheronoSan]

I have few problems: I designed my own footprint for an addressable through-hole LED, this LED has 4 pins instead of two. I wanted to add a 3D model of this LED to the library I made, however using the tool in the video limit me to only 2 pins and trying to simply copy-paste and make two extra pins did not help. In addition to that, despite saving the model into the library it does not show up on PCB boards that use this component. How can I solve this? Thanks.

[@superalpha]

For complex footprints, can you bring in the pdf datasheet to use as a canvas in the 3D model and 2D footprint editor?

[@adskFusion]

I was not able to insert a PDF, but I did make a screenshot of the mechanical details and saved it as a PNG. I was able to insert the PNG screenshot as a canvas. After selecting the plane you will get scaling options. It works really well.

[@superalpha]

@@adskFusion I have screenshot pdfs for canvas before. Too bad you can't bring in a page of a pdf and draw/snap (some are vector based)

[@ExMachinaEngineering]

@@superalpha Well, you could take the pdf through inkspace first if you think it's worth the time...

[@bartvandijk668]

very userfull video. Thanks!

[@doulos5322]

ok the copy and paste thing is really cool

[@BeefIngot]

The connect step seems insanely tedious. This is where accepting a csv file or even just letting the user past in csv values or even a set of key value pairs would be great. It wouldn't even be that big a step, and if it wasn't only this part I was doing I'd check if the API exposes this connection, because it seems like the sort of thing that really shouldn't need to be manual. Following along, I am creating a FT2232HPQ, and it has 68 pins and no ECAD available along with a Datasheet that did not have all the pins labelled in a convenient manner apart from the physical layout diagram, so I used OCR and a quick python script to get all of the pin names correctly numbered and have even output them in a key:value list, but now instead of just pasting that here, I have to manually find the newly unsorted pin names and manually assign them their pin values. Big pain. Basically all of what I'm doing here I've realized could be sped up with automation and OCR. It isn't technically insurmountable and could reduce all of this massively.

[@michaelosumune2149]

I have an issue and its this. I have a symbol and a footprint but I want to add a 3rd party step file. let's say I've added this 3rd party step file to the electronic. Why can't I find the electronic with the step file, it gets really confusing from here. need help Thanks

[@adskFusion]

Hi Michael, thank you for watching. I strongly recommend uploading the STEP model in the same folder as the library location. From the Footprint Content List, right-click the footprint from the list, and from the context menu select the option "Create Package from Footprint". Now you will be in the Package Editor, Right Click the STEP file located in your "Data Panel" you uploaded earlier and select the option "Insert into Current Design". Line up the STEP model with the footprint outline which is represented with the construction lines.

[@robin4970]

I need to create a BNC Connector (like how tf is there no library that includes this increadibly common connector) and there is simply no point in the generator for it. Pls update or at least give a hint in the vid how to create from the beginning.

[@mwalczak5603]

I have sat through your presentations a number of times and I have a recommendation, please don't add frivolous information that does not pertain to the topic. Like this presentation in first minute about half on the information is not needed. As an example why do I care that the ADC is a 4-20ma adc? Or why do you have to tell me that you are going to resize the specification sheet?

[@TheWeevilGenius]

Thanks for the great tutorial. I never would have been able to figure out how to create a component with out it. I just wish the Fusion team would start from scratch on this. I have to wonder.. Was this whole workflow created by an intern who never had a thought about how it would be used? Good grief! Its the most overly complicated buggy POS in all of Fusion

[@MrKedrik]

Honestly I like Fusion360 .... but it is absolute crap yet to manage electronic component ... just a real mess ... a lot of things simply does not work or counter intuitive ..... very very very disappointed !!!!!

[@MichaelSenko]

you are not alone

[@davidfleischer4407]

Completely unbearable. Your tutorials are available in so many languages, consider an instructor fluent in English.