Fusion 360 - Getting Started with Drawings

[@iancockerline2305]

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.

[@danielhertz7266]

Best concise video I've seen on turning 3D models into usable manufacturing drawings within fusion 360! Very well done. Thank you.

[@msu19911]

Really good video for a novice to figure out. It worked well to show the team on the CNC what They were looking at for the job.

[@3dconceptsofutah757]

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!

[@cudabraabra8169]

The most helpful video for technical drawings as of yet

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Well that is pretty high praise. Probably a little too high, but thank you. I'm glad you found it useful.

[@jayestes_vids]

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?

[@rdesign5688]

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?

[@MrRctintin]

Thanks Kevin, that vid helped me with getting to grips with producing drawings.

[@stevenholladay4828]

learning a ton from your videos

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Good! Thanks for letting me know.

[@mino610jr]

Thank you so much. Just saved me hours on an assignment I just could not figure out

[@sundeepdasari3531]

Perfect Explanation. Very comprehensive.

[@123kkambiz]

Upto the point with very good explanation tutorial, thank you Kevin

[@varius_7217]

Great video, helped me a lot.

[@alvint4944]

Thanks so much for this tutorial!

[@tonyupton5168]

Excellent! Easy to follow for this novice. Thankyou.

[@markb9580]

thanks Kevin. how do you change from portrait to landscape?

[@DCT_Aaron_Engineering]

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.

[@josephwarren849]

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.

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@johnvanleth9570]

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???

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@duncanpotter5838]

Thanks! How about threaded hole information - can that be transferred from the model?

[@PaukSK]

Great video.

[@dojomats]

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

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@dojomats]

@@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?

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@dojomats]

@@MechanicalAdvantage thank you so much, i look forward to following your videos and learning more! Building the housing for a pan tilt camera mount!

[@johanopperman8039]

Can you edit the drawing by changing some stuff on it?

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

What would you like to change?

[@johanopperman8039]

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

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

@@johanopperman8039 info @ mechanicaladvantage dot com (remove spaces and change to .com)

[@afsalasathar2516]

Is it possible to transfer the detailed view to another sheet.

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@HenryFMora]

I made several sheets in 2D. Purpose was to move some Details to the second sheet. But, I've been unable to move any views to the other sheets.

[@arturmarczewski1603]

I have a question. How to update drawing after maked changes on the #D model ? Thanks!

[@173roberto]

Can you have foreshortened dimmensions? imagine a scenario of a lathe part with many different diameters and lengths

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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

[@173roberto]

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[@robertavery8897]

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.

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@ActinOut]

You Rock! Thanks!

[@scrainbow1234]

Can you bring in a sheet metal flat pattern to a drawing?

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Yes. You can make a drawing of both the flat pattern and the folded model in the Fusion 360 drawing environment.

[@lailishulfi6423]

How to change the lanscape sheet into the potrait?

[@arkain101]

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...

[@santosknives6278]

Thanks a ton!

[@robertavery8897]

Well I went and looked .... I did see what you mentioned. It doesn’t allow me to go a print directly to my printer. I keeps calling out 3D print.

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

You have to create the 2D views of your 3D model first in the drawing environment. I'm pretty sure you did print while you were in a 3D Fusion file.

[@BeWithWasif101]

sir with me in educational i am not getting the drawings. why. ?

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@BeWithWasif101]

@@MechanicalAdvantage how to varify licence of education version. ?

[@Zbrdol]

Thank you. Good video.

[@TheEpicproboss]

Very helpful!!!!

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Thanks. It was pretty basic but hopefully it gets you started.

[@krishnamoorthi1549]

Make video for vibration analysis

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Hi Krishna. I'm afraid that FEA is out of my area of expertise, sorry.

[@krishnamoorthi1549]

@@MechanicalAdvantage ok sir

[@garywood9119]

R.14 radius when added does not display correctly as I see it in your demo.

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Hi Gary. What are you getting instead?

[@garywood9119]

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.

[@bluehandsvideo]

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?

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@bluehandsvideo]

I just checked it out. I'll be looking forward to it! Thanks!!

[@SolidRockMachineShopInc]

Thanks Kevin! Steve

[@fin3125]

Can you actually draw in Drawing? I would like to draw my own lines and symbols.

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

Yes. You will see there is the ability to create a sketch, but there are no constraints available in drawing sketch mode.

[@fin3125]

@@MechanicalAdvantage Wow, thank you.. that worked.

[@ryukomatoi7113]

very helpful dude

[@isaac4858]

thank you dude

[@gcase08]

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.

[@more-or-less-it]

inches, really

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

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.

[@suraja4u]

how to dimension isometric drawing in the fusion?

[@MechanicalAdvantage]

That isn’t currently possible. You can only dimension non-iso views.