Fusion 360 Quick Tip | Basics of Animations | Everything You Need To Know (Almost)

In this video we are going to tackle a question that came through on the Discord server. Presenting a design to a client and showing how the parts go together. So today we are going to look at the basic workflow of creating an animation in Fusion 360.
There isn't much to Animations in Fusion 360, but there are some things that can help when presenting your ideas. If you want to follow along you can download the dataset here: a360.co/3VgwJSA

[@802Garage]

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[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Awesome! David has some great content on his channel and maybe one day in the future we could do a collab. Welcome!

[@802Garage]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Would love to see it! I'm going to try to learn a lot more 3D modeling with CAD programs soon, so I'll def be needing your channel.

[@JeffSichoe]

Thanks heaps, after the first 4 mins I had what I needed to know to create quite a cool technical breakway of my design. Excellent vid :)

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Glad it helped! I really wish you could render the animations but it is better than nothing :)

[@JeffSichoe]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Yes one simple trick someone on the fusion 360 forums mentioned was to set a huge rectangle, modify the appearance and then set that behind your main body / animation to give it a background. works ok and sure looks better than plain white!

[@asciimation]

Thanks, yet another feature I knew nothing about but will have to go have a play with now!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Very Welcome!

[@EZEvans1]

Great video! grateful for you concise and thoughtful teaching style!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LivingSmallLivingMobile1]

excellent!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thanks!

[@shaunferris6063]

Hello! Thank you for a great video, was able to make a great assembly video, however I tried saving the video. but it will not play. I have 3 different video apps , it will bring up the video but immediately goes to an error screen. has that ever happened when you export video?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

The output is an .avi file. i record avi files for screen capture and play them back in either VLC player or camtasia with no issues. What media player are you using? It is possible you don't have the proper codec to play avi files. If so VLC is free and you might give that one a shot. It will let you convert/save it as an mp4 if you need.

[@shaunferris6063]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign that must be it. I wass using windows standard media players . thank you i will try vlc ... !

[@keninthekitchen1562]

Whenever I load my project files into the Animation workspace, all of the objects fuse into one object. How do I prevent this from happening so I can move individual objects? Ok, they are not objects but bodies. What do I do to get them ready for animation? Edit figured it out! gotta convert each body to a component! Right click, select make component from body, then rename the part. ;)

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Yeah glad you sorted it out! Animations require components. If you have a component with multiple bodies they will all move as one object. The reason for this is because Fusion tracks the coordinate system which is associated with each component. That way it doesn't affect the design at all.

[@vasus6916]

I want to learn tyre design (in surface)?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Vasu, do you mean for production? or do you just want to model them for a reference?

[@haavard1989]

Late to the party, but in the timeline I do not get the colours of the animations. To you it's blue for the animations, grey and yellow for visibility and so on, but to me its only the icons. It's really difficult to animate and I wonder if it's a fix to this? Can't find what I'm looking for online :(

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

are you on a windows or mac machine? The recent Fusion update hasn't changed this at all so it is either a graphics thing or a difference in win/mac. The timeline and browser both "render" over top of the modeling window slightly different than the animation itself. Do you notice any issues with the Browser also?

[@haavard1989]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign No issues with browser as I know. I just ran and checked on my laptop and figured it works there as intended. Currently reinstalling to see if it sorts itself out

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Yeah that is a new one for me. Not many people use Animations but I have never run across that issue myself or with anyone else. I know this is usually a goto but I would check the graphics card driver. You can do that from the help menu under Support and Diagnostics. there is a graphics diagnostic that lets you toggle some settings and check for an update. There are some display options that can help with performance but I haven't heard of that changing the animation timeline.

[@haavard1989]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Reinstalling didn't help. Docking up my laptop now in frustration x) oh man...

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

what graphics card is in the system that isn't working? and which one in the system that is?