{"id":177,"date":"2015-10-23T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/fusionnews-for-the-week-of-1023-a-weekly-roundup-of-community-news\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:16:06","slug":"fusionnews-for-the-week-of-1023-a-weekly-roundup-of-community-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/fusionnews-for-the-week-of-1023-a-weekly-roundup-of-community-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FusionNews for the week of 10\/23: A weekly roundup of community news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>FusionNews highlights the key things that happened over the past week in the Fusion 360 Community. New posts every Friday.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Fusionteam.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196089i95D239BD14E051BB\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Fusionteam.png\" \/><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><H2>From the Fusion 360 Team<\/H2><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>QUICK TIP RECAP \u2013 <\/STRONG>Check out these quick tip videos from the week:<\/P><UL><LI><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/design-differently\/quick-tip-save-time-setting-up-toolpaths\/ba-p\/5868641\" target=\"_blank\">Save Time Setting Up Toolpaths<\/A><\/STRONG><\/LI><LI><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/design-differently\/quick-tip-nobody-likes-working-with-someone-else-s-model\/ba-p\/5870024\" target=\"_blank\">Nobody Likes Working with Someone Else\u2019s Model<\/A><\/STRONG><\/LI><LI><STRONG><A href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3IvOM1WmB8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2D Contours &amp; Horizontal Strategies<\/A><\/STRONG><\/LI><\/UL><P><STRONG>UPDATE \u2013 <A href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.autodesk.com\/support\/fusion-360\/learn-explore\/caas\/CloudHelp\/cloudhelp\/ENU\/Fusion-WhatsNew\/files\/GUID-D701BB8F-6FAB-4282-B248-6206B36D160D-htm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">What\u2019s New<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>See what fixes were included in an update that went live on 10\/19.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>WEBINAR RECORDING \u2013 <A href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=66G47VcA6OU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3D Printing with Fusion 360<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Here&#8217;s the&nbsp;webinar recording&nbsp;from earlier this week.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Flairvents.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196093i25352491C127E877\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Flairvents.png\" \/><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>USER STORY \u2013<\/STRONG> <STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/inthefold.autodesk.com\/in_the_fold\/2015\/10\/flair-starting-home-climate-control-revolution-with-smart-vents-designed-in-autodesk-fusion-360.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flair Starting Home Climate Control Revolution with Smart Vents Designed in Fusion 360<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Learn more about this connected home climate control that saves customers money.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>USER STORY \u2013 <A href=\"http:\/\/lineshapespace.com\/the-real-life-of-a-mechanical-engineer-scott-wertel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Real Life of a Mechanical Engineer: Scott Wertel on Being a Successful Consultant<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Meet&nbsp;Scott Wertel and hear about how he runs his consulting firm and uses Fusion 360.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><H2>From the Fusion 360 Community<\/H2><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>SCREENCAST \u2013 <\/STRONG><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.autodesk.com\/support\/fusion-360\/getting-started\/caas\/screencast\/Main\/Details\/e40e411c-46f9-474e-94cf-2cf0e534fab9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tap-drill Size for Threaded Fasteners<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>JD Mather shows you how to avoid drilling a hole the same size as the major diameter of a threaded fastener &#8211; not leaving any material to &#8220;tap&#8221; or cut the mating female thread.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>TUTORIALS \u2013 <\/STRONG><STRONG><A href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_7u_EjhIHs&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alpha Creation for ZBrush using Fusion 360<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Sorin Lupu shares a quick way for creating clean hard surface alphas for ZBrush using Fusion 360.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><H2>Events<\/H2><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>LIVE EVENT \u2013 <A href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Portland-Fusion-360-Meetup\/events\/225179439\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fusion 360 Meetup \u2013 Portland<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Portland folks, join us on October 27<SUP>th<\/SUP> at 6:30 pm to do some hands on group modeling with Fusion 360.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>LIVE EVENT \u2013 <A href=\"https:\/\/autodeskmfg.wufoo.com\/forms\/fusion-360-for-solidworks-users-seminar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fusion 360 for SolidWorks Users &#8211; Portland<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>The days of expensive, difficult to use and disjoined workflows of legacy CAD tools are a thing of the past. Come see that there is a better way!<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>LIVE EVENT \u2013 <A href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Seattle-Autodesk-Fusion-360-Meetup-Group\/events\/225926571\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fusion 360 Meetup \u2013 Seattle<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Seattle Fusion 360 users, join us on October 29<SUP>th<\/SUP> at 6 pm to kick off a new Seattle Meetup group.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG>ONLINE EVENT \u2013 <A href=\"https:\/\/attendee.gotowebinar.com\/register\/9151738124654127874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fusion 360 for Beginners<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>If you\u2019re new to Fusion 360 this is the webinar for you! Join us on October 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP> at 1 pm PST to get an intro to the interface and learn more about navigation, changing workspaces, sketching, primitive modeling and drawings.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><H2>Gallery Spotlights<\/H2><P>We love to see what you are designing with Fusion 360! Share your designs with the Fusion 360 community on the <A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/editor_pick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gallery<\/A><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp; &nbsp;<IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"EspressoMachine.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196096i11F709321461841F\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"EspressoMachine.jpg\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"DriveBox.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196097iA6F7FBC0CF8198DA\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"DriveBox.jpg\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"GearReduction.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196100i72AD852152FCA624\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"GearReduction.jpg\" \/><\/P><P><A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/espresso-machine-r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Espresso Machine<\/A> by <A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/users\/jin-woo-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jin-Woo Lee<\/A>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/ldu-linear-drive-unit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Linear Drive Unit<\/A> by <A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/users\/kacper-skawinski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kacper Skawiski<\/A>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/gear-reduction-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gear Reduction Assembly<\/A> by <A href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/users\/luis-verastegui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luis Verastegui<\/A><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"IdeaStation.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196101i4894C24894BC4892\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"IdeaStation.png\" \/><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><H2>Your Ideas from the Fusion 360 IdeaStation<\/H2><P>We take your suggestions very seriously as they help to shape Fusion 360, so please <A href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/ideas\/v2\/ideaexchangepage\/blog-id\/125\/tab\/most-recent\" target=\"_blank\">share your ideas<\/A> and vote for new<\/P><P>features \/ enhancements you would like to see.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>Here are a few from this week. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!<\/P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a\/user-parameters-show-quick-link-to-user-created-parameters\/idi-p\/5866773\" target=\"_blank\">User Parameters \u2013 Show Quick Link to User Created Parameters <\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Request to be able to see a quick scroll of a parameter previously assigned when creating a drawing.<\/P><P><STRONG>&nbsp;<\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a\/live-review-make-section-analysis-visible-to-all-participants\/idi-p\/5870607\" target=\"_blank\">Live Review: Make Section Analysis Visible to All Particpants<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Request for participants of a live review session to be have the ability to see the section analysis.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a\/keyboard-shortcuts-to-toggle-cycle-through-variants\/idi-p\/5866419\" target=\"_blank\">Keyboard Shortcuts to Toggle\/Cycle through Variants<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Request for each shortcut key to show the variants of each one, cycling through all options.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>Have a story to share? We would love to hear more about you and how you&#8217;re using Fusion 360! Shoot me an email at&nbsp;<A href=\"mailto:shannon.mcgarry@autodesk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shannon.mcgarry@autodesk.com<\/A>.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"News1023Teaser.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/196088i346B34D8CAA27590\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"News1023Teaser.jpg\" \/><\/P><P>A weekly recap of the happenings around the Fusion 360 community.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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