{"id":5297,"date":"2016-09-06T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2017-02-02T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:44:08","slug":"roadmap-check-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/roadmap-check-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadmap Check-in September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted by\u00a0keqingsong<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0\u200e\u200e09-06-2016 12:34 PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time to check-in!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Time flies when you\u2019re working on a project that you\u2019re truly passionate and excited about. We\u2019ve made a lot of progress since our last check-in, but it wasn\u2019t all easy sailing, as we also experienced challenges and inevitable turbulence along the way. We learned from those experiences and saw opportunities to make Fusion 360 the best product design platform that has ever existed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Based on your feedback through face to face conversations, phone calls, emails, forum threads, meet-ups, and social media, we\u2019re hunkering down and and making sure that the foundation of the software is solid. For the second half of the year (H2), we\u2019re putting our efforts into these three guiding areas of focus:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Beefing up Fusion\u2019s core so that it is more reliable and resilient. A healthier Fusion is a happier world.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Providing a better on-boarding and core modeling experience, because something things should just be that easy.
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  3. Delivering high value features that let\u2019s you take your designs from concept to production, so you can finally mark your project done done.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The Roadmap (as of September 2016)<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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    Fusion 360 September 2016 Roadmap Check-in by Keqing Song<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
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    You will enter this mural in View Only mode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    With the guiding areas of focus in mind, we\u2019ve updated our priorities. The roadmap in Mural will give you a recap of what we delivered first half of the year, as well as a view into what we\u2019re working on for the rest of the year. Note that we\u2019re only highlighting the big nuggets, and did not include absolutely everything the Fusion team is working on (that would be too long of a post for me to even thinking about writing). In the coming months, we\u2019ll be sharing more details around the projects mentioned here on our Design Differently blog, so look out for those Fusion Forecast posts! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Okay, let\u2019s get this party started.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Reliability & Resilience<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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    Every piece of software has its quirks, and Fusion is no exception. For H2, we\u2019re making sure that our data management workflows handle unexpected service outages in a way that you\u2019ll never end up in situation where you can\u2019t do your work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    We\u2019re also improving our process of pushing updates, so that you can get fixes and improvements to high priority tools as soon as they become ready.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Speaking of fixes, the devil is always in the details. This means working on creating better testing automations, so we can catch and fix more issues before they hit you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Downloading and installing Fusion is pretty straightforward, but when there\u2019s an issue, it\u2019s not easy to figure out what exactly went wrong. This is another area of the experience that we\u2019re working on, making it more reliable, more forgiving, with better solutions to issues if they do come up, with the highest amount of data security.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Design and Modeling<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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    With Deep Update and Mesh preview now available, we\u2019ve been working hard on making improvements to our core modeling tools, sketching experience as well as the highly anticipated sheet metal functionality.<\/p>\n

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    Enhancements to Core Modeling<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This is at the core of Fusion 360, and we\u2019re working on improving high-usage tools such as the Extrude and Fillet commands so that they are more intuitive and more robust.<\/p>\n

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    Improvements to Move and Align are also coming. We took your feedback and are making the Move tool parametric, so you can specific values to and drive your moves parametrically. Along this thinking, we\u2019re also improving the Align tool, making it easier to snap 3D geometry point to point.<\/p>\n

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    Having Fillet and Rule Fillet as two separate commands always felt odd to us, so we\u2019re working on combining them and simplifying the workflow, while making face fillet will be more discoverable too. We\u2019re not stopping there either, as we plan to add full round, face to face along with a few other enhancements to improve your overall fillet experience.<\/p>\n

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    We\u2019re also focusing on making sure the timeline is more responsive, especially when you\u2019re trying to make changes to your design history and trying to reorganize features.<\/p>\n

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    Improving modeling experience and Usability<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Trying out a new piece of software is all it takes to make or break the deal. We are constantly refining this experience and want to make sure that when you get into Fusion for the first, you are equipped with the right tools and are ready to get productive. We are also working on usability improvements such as fixing the grid gradient, enabling browser folders, and introducing a tabbed toolbar experience, as well as the \u201cFusion wants my attention\u201d issue.<\/p>\n

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    Sheetmetal<\/strong><\/p>\n

    We\u2019re making good progress here. The main workflows we\u2019re focusing on are Press Brake workflows and how we can make it simple and logical. We have rules and flanges pretty much nailed down (Face, Contour, Edge, Miter Flange), and are now working on fold\/unfold and flatten tools. We\u2019re not sure exactly when we\u2019ll have a first release to for you to play with, but we\u2019re on the right track.<\/p>\n

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    After our initial release, we plan on adding features that allows you to bring in other sheet metal CAD models to incorporate into a design and\/or to flatten the design. \u00a0We also see the need to have the ability to convert designs into a sheet metal model. \u00a0Looking further out, our goal is to provide a complete design-to-manufacture workflow that includes designing your sheet metal part, to flattening it, to nesting it, all the way to manufacturing with laser \/ waterjet \/ router.<\/p>\n

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    2D Drawings<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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    In addition to some of the things we mentioned in the previous check-in, we also were able to deliver some nice improvements to the Move command, Part list behaviors, a slight UI refresh \u00a0and a cursor change to a pointer that we all recognize.
    \nFor the month of September, we\u2019re on track on delivering features such as Inserting your own DWG title-blocks, as well as rotating views. We started to work on the other items for H2, but still do not have a timeframe for when they are going to be available quite yet.<\/p>\n

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    Data Management<\/strong><\/h1>\n

    Our idea for how people should manage their data in Fusion has always been an \u201cEyes Wide Open\u201d concept with transparency throughout the collaboration process. \u00a0Branching & Merging preview<\/strong><\/a><\/span> functionality is right on the cusp of becoming available. The cake is pretty much done, we just need to let it sit and put the icing on and it\u2019ll be ready. Expect it to show up in the next couple of months.
    \nWe also got word that     Connected Desktop<\/strong><\/a><\/span> is almost ready. It is currently in the testing phases and we are working on getting it all wrapped up. We will share more details around this when we get closer to a delivery timeframe.<\/p>\n

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    If you haven\u2019t seen it in action yet, it\u2019s worth a look.<\/i><\/p>\n

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    For the second half of the year, we\u2019re focusing on the core aspects of what makes data management so great in Fusion. The experience has come a long way since our first iteration with the dashboard (dear lord was that hideous), and with all the feedback we are getting, we\u2019re working making this existing experience rock solid. Our teams are working on things like:<\/p>\n