Fusion 360 Blog

Explore product updates and enhancements, useful Fusion 360 tips and tutorials, roadmap updates and community stories.

About the author

Bryce Heventhal

Bryce Heventhal is the Technical Marketing Manager for Fusion 360. He has 9+ years of CAD and FEA experience, with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. When he is not designing he is out rock climbing.

Connect with me on the forums

QUICK TIP: Import T-Splines from Rhino

In this week’s Quick Tip, learn how to import a design created in the T-Splines plugin inside Rhino into Fusion 360.

The Fusion Forecast: Branching & Merging

In this week’s Fusion Forecast, we will nerd out on the Branching & Merging functionality that will make its way into Fusion 360. Branching & Merging will allow teams to design in parallel like never before in the development process.

QUICK TIP: Assemble Imported Assemblies

No one likes working with imported geometry, but in this week’s QUICK TIP we show how easy Fusion 360 assembles imported assemblies. In this tip, as-built joints & rigid groups quickly assemble this vise.

The Fusion Forecast: WIP 2.0 enabling Fusion’s Future

In this ongoing series, we will forecast different functionality that will get implemented into Fusion 360. In this week’s forecast, we will take a look at the upgrade to Fusion 360’s infrastructure (WIP 2.0). This major update to the back end will enable innovative functionality in the future.

QUICK TIP: Object Visibility and Selection Filters

While designing in Fusion 360, joint previews, sketches and work planes need to be turned off to view different aspects of the design. In this week’s QUICK TIP, learn how to turn off a selection of different objects or all of them in your design.

QUICK TIP: Rendering Motion Studies

Never send a manager or customer a standard grey CAD animation again. In this week’s Quick Tip, make motion studies to demonstrate how your design functions and then take it a step further with a rendering of your motion study using cloud resources.

QUICK TIP: Enhanced GCode viewing when posting from Fusion 360

In this week’s QUICK TIP, enhance your GCode viewing experience while using brackets or learn how to choose a different default GCode editor.

QUICK TIP: Edit Imported Geometry with Direct Editing

Check out this QUICK TIP to learn how to use the move face command to translate and rotate groups of faces to make design changes.

QUICK TIP: Engraving in CAM

In this week’s quick tip, learn how the engrave toolpath can help machine complex text or artistic patterns.

QUICK TIP: Find Internal Volume of Fusion 360 Designs

Internal volumes can be complicated and change drastically with design changes. Watch this quick tip to learn how to find the properties of an enclosed volume in Fusion 360.

Load more