Unlock Fusion 360's Full Potential: Why You Should Replace Dimensions with Powerful Equations!

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Learn how to level up from regular dimensions in Fusion 360. Equations can make everything easier to manage and edit.
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@TylerBeckofTECHESPRESSO 5 ай бұрын

Do you use equations in Fusion 360?

@gerritvisser 5 ай бұрын

Yes I use equations for some parts, esp. if I need to make several in a psuedo-collection (free version). Your side-kick is really getting into the groove now, very effective. 🙂

@j.f.christ8421 5 ай бұрын

And they FINALLY added the IF statement! Hooray!

@vangeeson 5 ай бұрын

Doing professional printed parts at home since 2 years with fusion and still learned the arc tangent and make dimensions visible that will make future things a little faster. Thanks!

@rameeti 5 ай бұрын

As you showed the Parameters at the very end, I am surprised that you did not share the absolute ease of naming the different parameters early on. Then you could use 'SmDia *1.5' instead of d1. Naming the parameters makes life so much easier. Then you can explain why they should use a name instead of d1.

@designgears 5 ай бұрын

How did I not know about the dimension to arc tangent, wow. Immediately went and fixed all of my sketches. Thanks!

@CraigHollabaugh 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, I didn't know that dimension to circle tangent option.

@NostromoVA Ай бұрын

I have been using F360 for two years and had no idea we could simply reference that. THANK YOU!

@thom17043 5 ай бұрын

Most of my Fusion360 is self taught, going looking for answers when I needed them, and there are a number of "why didn't I realize that?" moments. This is one of them. Despite the fx - same as Excel, I never thought to try actual functions! You just opened up an entire new world for me.

@jmunkki 5 ай бұрын

You are not using named dimensions? I don't even see "fx" on your toolbar (even though you do show it in the video). A friend who started Fusion 360 more recently said he wished the application had named variables, so I looked at him a bit funny and showed the panel to him and made a sketch somewhat similar to your sample, but I then used the parameters to calculate how many pillars fit on a sketch and I used that to make a rectangular pattern on the extrude feature to fill the plate with pillars. He didn't know you could do that and it's actually something that he had wanted to do. As a programmer, I'll also say that using the default d1, d2, d3 parameter names seems like very bad practice. Now here, I'll say that Fusion 360 seems unnecessarily clumsy in that you can't name the parameters on the fly while dimensioning. Ideally, I would just name the parameter as I go and even have some kind of name space with dot notation, so I could use pillar_diameter locally in the plate sketch and outside the sketch I could use plate.pillar_diameter in other sketches. Also, I think many users might not know that you can just rename d1 to to pillar_diameter without having to create a user parameter for it and that way the sketch parameter will not appear in the user parameters, which is probably best practice for parameters that aren't intended to be modified by whoever is making changes to the design. In programming terms, if the design is an application that takes input parameters to produce a part, then those would be user parameters and the internal variables used in the program would be the sketch parameters. Using d1, d2, d3 feels like programming in Applesoft BASIC in 1981. Or maybe even worse...a programmable calculator from the 1970s that only had numbered registers for variables.

@cekuhnen 5 ай бұрын

If you don’t use equations then honestly you don’t understand parametric modeling

@eburgess4 5 ай бұрын

I've been learning Fusion 360 for a couple of weeks now and could have used this info on a project I was working on a few days ago. I will definitely use this in the future!

@laurv8370 5 ай бұрын

This is kinda silly example, because it can be achieved much simpler with a scaling when printing. You could have made it a lot more interesting, and with a real application, by making a fixed size plate and 3 knobs, where I could scale one and then the other two will automatically scale to fit the plate. That could not be achieved in Cura when printing, and I say that it has a real application because I made a similar design in the past, I had to make a panel wit 5 knobs, of which 3 smaller (same size) and 2 larger (same size, so we only deal with 2 sizes) and I wanted to see which proportion is the most useful, like easier for the user and pleasant to the eye, so I had to play with it until the client was satisfied.

@crashkg 5 ай бұрын

I use equations but sometimes I get stuck trying to do some higher math. Like wanting to use square root in the equation. I was designing a part and wanted to make a right angle triangle where the hypotenuse was related to the other 2 sides. Any tips for that?