What's New in Fusion 360 - April 2023 | Autodesk Fusion 360

The Autodesk Fusion 360 update for April 2023 is here, and we’re breaking from tradition, with a single video that showcases the breadth of Fusion 360 as a platform: with electronics, design, simulation, and additive and subtractive manufacturing all in one.
This Fusion 360 KZbin video covers electronics improvements like graphics updates and collapsible panels, that will speed up your PCB design; generative design updates like symmetry planes that will increase your productivity; drawing automations to create hole centerlines; and major updates to the manufacturing workspace to help automate your part programming, including new toolpath strategies like deburr and corner finishing, and more options for additive bar supports.
If you are long on interest but short on time, we've got the chapter markers handy for you below!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 General Improvements
00:59 Electronics - GPU
01:55 Electronics - Import DXF/DWG
02:41 Electronics - Patterns
03:11 Electronics - Keep Via Name
03:28 Electronics - Paste To Active Layer
03:45 Electronics - Move Tools to the Cloud in Library.io
04:12 Electronics - Collapse Panels
04:33 Generative Design - Symmetry Plane
05:05 Generative Design - Detail Slider
05:42 Generative Design - Automated Modelling
06:12 Simulation
06:41 Design - Blend Curve
07:04 Design - Milestones
07:37 Design - Makersite Plugin
08:34 Drawings - Automatic Centerlines
09:11 Manufacturing - Inclined Flats
09:52 Manufacturing - Deburr
11:05 Manufacturing - Corner Finishing
11:51 Manufacturing - FPM and FPR
12:38 Manufacturing - Tool Presets
12:52 Manufacturing - Center Images
13:01 Manufacturing - Tool 3D Preview
13:20 Additive Manufacturing - Bar Supports
14:03 Additive Manufacturing - Section Planes
14:22 Manufacturing - API
14:56 Summary
15:11 End
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[@ExploringTheSimulation]

We. Need. Dark. Mode!

[@Parken26]

Yes… Dark mode, I cannot believe this is not the top priority.

[@calinguga]

@@Parken26 many people find dark mode is way easier on the eyes. it may reduce eye strain by reducing glare and may decrease exposure to blue light that disrupts the circadian rhythm. it's not just for show if that's what you're implying.

[@mh369]

Agreed, I dont want to get eye problems just because fusion360 is the only app not adapting to basic human needs :/

[@ElementalGarageandGaming]

Thank you for this update. I would still love to see a "dark mode," built in for the tool bars. This would help immensely in eye strain relief. Thank you!

[@animeshortsforyou9238]

Nice work I'm really excited to this video it's really interesting and useful

[@supermanhills]

Much better as a single video

[@brameelen6464]

how about the pipe /rectangeler tube settings ? is there an update for frame building/construction ? corner diameter, orientation ,..... or to get step files out of it?

[@JWC_4_2_0]

Can you please add the ability to use shortcut keys for everything, such as 3d print, section analysis, etc? When you have a lagging computer it's so much easier to use shortcuts rather than going through multiple menus to do something.

[@spikeypineapple552]

You can assign your own shortcuts

[@JWC_4_2_0]

@@spikeypineapple552 there are certain commands, such as 3d print, that don't allow you to add shortcut keys

[@spikeypineapple552]

@@JWC_4_2_0 ah thankyou

[@willofthemaker]

Is it possible to make the mobile app useable for modeling? Something like Shapr 3d for Ipad, which is free. I would love to be able to do more than twerl my models around on my phone or ipad. I have a Fold 3 which gives the bigger screen and would be really useful for quick edits and changes.

[@willofthemaker]

Just want to add I pay a huge amount for fusion 360. Not having a functional and usable app to go with it is almost criminally disappointing

[@dpanzone]

We finally just got a seamless login back, seemed like it was gone for a few years. Speaking for myself, but when you can turn on a work station have fusion as a login item, and just go to work is an excellent way to get going. Please don't ruin that experience.

[@dpanzone]

looks like auto login still works! once you go through the web login page once it seems to function as before. Turn on computer, all the things I have as login items open, go straight to work.

[@mh369]

Thanks for the update! If I may suggest something, please add Dark Mode!

[@macrobionic]

What's new for me is the loss of the rotate gesture on my Macbook Pro trackpad.

[@danducky4741]

Love all of these features, just wish I could use this on my main Linux machine without using workarounds which I'm sure stress your servers ;)

[@RusakovLA]

Correct timestamps: 00:04 Introduction 00:28 General Improvements 00:59 Electronics - GPU 01:55 Electronics - Import DXF/DWG 02:41 Electronics - Patterns 03:11 Electronics - Keep Via Name 03:28 Electronics - Paste To Active Layer 03:45 Electronics - Move Tools to the Cloud in Library_io 04:12 Electronics - Collapse Panels 04:33 Generative Design - Symmetry Plane 05:05 Generative Design - Detail Slider 05:42 Generative Design - Automated Modelling 06:12 Simulation 06:41 Design - Blend Curve 07:04 Design - Milestones 07:37 Design - Makersite Plugin 08:34 Drawings - Automatic Centerlines 09:11 Manufacturing - Inclined Flats 09:52 Manufacturing - Deburr 11:05 Manufacturing - Corner Finishing 11:51 Manufacturing - FPM and FPR 12:38 Manufacturing - Tool Presets 12:52 Manufacturing - Center Images 13:01 Manufacturing - Tool 3D Preview 13:20 Additive Manufacturing - Bar Supports 14:03 Additive Manufacturing - Section Planes 14:22 Manufacturing - API 14:56 Summary 15:11 End

[@MrCiscoski]

Thanks for this ... Autodesk should tag it by default :)

[@RusakovLA]

@@MrCiscoski They have them in description but with milliseconds, which are not parsed correctly by youtube.

[@rnd.min_]

00:00 Dark mode please

[@Rebar77_real]

Thank you for the login update. I often found myself not bothering to dig out the password if it had been a couple weeks since tinkering. One less reason for me to slack now, doh!

[@sccolbert]

Would love to have a joint where you can make a joint origin follow an arbitrary 3d path. Sorta like a cylindrical joint, but where the cylinder is curved.

[@PortableTaco]

This for me is not working..I open the app, redirect me to the browser, log in, then i get redirected to the app again and, the process starts again, in an infinite loop, and if I try to do it without internet connection it kicks me out!!!! this is nuts

[@chasejob2037]

i’m getting an error with the new login setup, it’s saying that i don’t have an app to be directed to for signing in, anyone having the same issue and does anyone know how to fix it

[@alaskandonut]

We need official Apple Silicon support.

[@steampunkwhale2280]

Yes please. Original projection was Summer 2023 but I haven’t seen any posts or updates about it.

[@ScottMoyse]

They have publicly stated they are working towards support for it. In the recent article about deprecating support for older operating systems, they give Apple Silicon support as one of the reasons for doing so.

[@alaskandonut]

@@ScottMoyse that’s very exciting!!

[@ScottMoyse]

@@alaskandonut AutoCAD for Mac is running on Apple Silicon now, from the 2024 release onwards.

[@alaskandonut]

@@ScottMoyse through Rosetta translation layer it’s very laggy. Crashes more often. But I’m excited for a native release.

[@meandmycnc1644]

appreciate you are doing it right. long time user since acad9...maybe even before.

[@camacho1234]

please add native NPT threads

[@Timboykee]

👍👍

[@steampunkwhale2280]

Agreed

[@steampunkwhale2280]

The new version crashes every time the computer enters Sleep mode (MacOS 13.x). Meaning I can’t simply step away from the computer, I have to go through and save every document I have been working on.

[@thewaxlab]

Nothing ever happens this fast when on the Wi-Fi at Starbucks! Lol

[@eatonasher3398]

It's great to see that you're back to making useful updates!! You must have returned to llistening to the community rather than deciding what was necessary yourselves :) Very good stuff!

[@seimela]

I still can't abandon solidworks ....but I feel that time is nearing quickly 😮❤😮

[@AlexanderMoon]

Lots of stuff missing, no flex, lip/groove, weldments and loads of features. HiDPI is still horrible. And damn subscription model. I feel Fusion is quite far

[@seimela]

@@AlexanderMoon last week I was doing piping and electrical ..that's Solidworks is just advanced

[@josephhardin5726]

Do one engineering drawing in fusion and you will go running back to SOLIDWORKS.

[@markwilliams5654]

Snap too works correctly lol probably not lol😊 it's only been broken for 10years 😮

[@subd3]

Is there a setting for a dark mode for the entire UI?

[@BGraves]

They have no plans in the outlook

[@vsmirald9769]

Love the updates and all but like most really, we need dark mode...

[@edwardbauer9010]

Please!! Dark Mode

[@noha.hassan1112]

great job

[@alpagutsencer]

Why dont you share "THOSE" sample models like coffee machine with us for to play around and learn the program much better?

[@anushakumari7544]

super video

[@Hellsparkt]

when am i gonna be ablee to local render motion studies? spent 6 hours browsing old forum posts and old tutorial getting nothing to work.

[@policeman0077]

please make eagle a standalone program

[@ScottMoyse]

The amount of moaning in this KZbin thread is staggering... this is a great release with great features... Nothing comes free in life.

[@dwaynevarnell9157]

Yep and i feel I’m paying enough to get the basic DARK MODE…. Among other simply feature available in Inventor or Solidworks.

[@stone_fpv2599]

Nooo, no Login through the browser please. It’s soo slow and annoying.

[@StephenBoyd21]

The new 3D printing dialog is horrible. Can you bring back the old one.

[@JD2jr.]

Why tf do you always doubt down on the worst parts of this program? Not only will you not just let me stay "logged in", but now you're going to open up another program on top of your own resource-hogging one?

[@Te4mUp]

Test comment can you read this?

[@JD2jr.]

@@Te4mUp yes

[@Te4mUp]

@@JD2jr. Thanks mang

[@marcus_w0]

I'm still mad, that you moved the 5-axis milling from the standard subscription to the mechanical design tier. This feature was, what made me subscribe to Fusion 360 in the first place and your sales rep guaranteed me IN WRITING, that this will stay in the paid standard tier subscription as long as I paid for. I paid for 3 years. It took 3 months and it was gone. Just as your sales rep, who is not answering my calls anymore. This is a 2020 story. And I'm not sure, If i should renew my 3 years subscription or just revert to the free version. I was hardly using fusion 360 after that change.

[@brianwaayenberg3099]

Speak brother! Total bs. I was a loud angry man about this and had the chance to discuss this with a software engineer and manager at auto desk. They gave me “one free year” of the extension. So I had 5 axis for 2 of3 years. Stil not impressed. The engineer said the main reason it was pulled from base was to not have redundant icons. There would have been no conflict leaving it and adding another button for advanced 5 axis. But this may have been “confusing” to users….. finally got a 5 axis 3 months before the extension is done. No time to learn or use it. Shame. I would have really liked to lear this. Imagine all those pocket nc users. Costs a lot more now :( At least I can do positional work.

[@marcus_w0]

@@brianwaayenberg3099 What!? That's their explanation? I call BS! I was developing a DIY 5-axis hobbyist mill, not unlike the pocket NC, but with a bit more girth and size for over a year at this point. This project is done and dusted now, that there''s no way I could sell it to hobbyists, that have to pay a $1600 + $500 subscription for simple 5 axis toolpaths. I don't talk about adaptive 5-axis or 5-axis 3D - but even simple 3+2 milling is now in the Machining Extension.

[@brianwaayenberg3099]

@@marcus_w0 3+2 is in extensions now??? like simple change workplane and keep cutting 3 axis? my extension ended 2 days ago so ive not looked at it. from what i understood it was only simltanius movments that where gonna be in extensions? ill have to look cus that dont make sense. i do alot of 3+1 and some 3+2 on my haas

[@brianbean7024]

Fusion is so slow to load. And the cloud based storage is truly concerning.

[@dpanzone]

Also, moving Deburr behind a second pay wall is pretty bad.

[@samr3503]

It's primarily designed for multiaxis, makes sense it would be extension only.

[@matthewdavis9954]

@@samr3503 Ya well they neglected the trace toolpath so they could charge us more for a deburr toolpath

[@vincei4252]

Not sure why you guys continue to use bait and switch Autodesk. Once bitten twice shy.

[@ScottMoyse]

@@matthewdavis9954 Trace is an insanely different toolpath... they aren't even comparable.

[@pplpilot]

not really, for me its paid for itself in the 1st month. They are a business after all, should they spend millions on development for nothing? can you tick the options list on your new car and pay nothing? can you buy that all singing all dancing laptop for the same price as an entry level one? no?? thought not....

[@kurtclark8560]

Bouncing the login off a web browser is such a crude hack. you need a better software team.

[@philipps00]

remove the extensions

[@jenspetersen5865]

At least don't waste our time with extensions that are priced totally out of proportions with the basic package

[@ScottMoyse]

@@jenspetersen5865 Go and compared the functionality available in the Extensions to the price of competitive solutions... instead of comparing it to Base Fusion 360! The price of base Fusion 360 is a loss leader.

[@jenspetersen5865]

@@ScottMoyse No when you lure people in with an excellent price/performance value, enter contracts where you promise a fixed price for all early signers, and then start removing free access things like FEM analysis, 4&5 axis simultaneous operation... then it becomes bait and switch. Fusion 360 was sold as an ever evolving - customer focused platform, and that is not what it is any more. It is exactly the SAS bait and switch trap. Adding all extensions to a license is 25 times more expensive than the license, and I don't know what you are comparing to, but it is not very likely to be the applications people came from. On top there probably isn't a CAD application out there that is harder to get your data out of than Fusion, should you want to drop the application.

[@philipps00]

​@@jenspetersen5865 I bought fusion 360 with the standard license 2 years ago, now many functions that I paid money for back then are chargeable via extensions, that's rip off :-( after many years of fusion 360 i am considering switching to solidworks when my subscription ends I have already pulled the step files for my best projects

[@jenspetersen5865]

@@philipps00 If it is only for CAD, I have been very happy with Alibre, and you don't have to keep paying each year. They are perfectly happy supporting my 2018 licence, as they would have supporting my 2011 ditto. I'm not switching - just bitching, as I think it is poor business practices from AutoDesk, and I am irritated that I cannot see updates to our level.

[@Te4mUp]

So buggy..........................

[@Robinlarsson83]

Fusion is probably the least buggy and crash prone CAD software out there, basically no bugs for normal work. Unlike Solidworks or Autocad for example.

[@Te4mUp]

@@Robinlarsson83 you’re certainly entitled to your own opinion. Fusion can’t even get basic functionality right lol

[@matthewdavis9954]

So buggy..............