Fusion 360 | Configurations are here!
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2023
- With the Sept 2023 update, the configuration tool has finally arrived.
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I have just read the update notes again and realised that Autodesk has actually planned for the configuration feature to be a staggered rollout.
The following paragraph was taken from the page:
"If you don’t immediately see Configurations in your toolbar, no need to worry. We will be releasing Configurations slowly over the course of the next month, so if you do not see it today you should be able to use the functionality very shortly. By adopting a staggered approach, we aim to seamlessly integrate this powerful feature into the Fusion 360 ecosystem."
So for those of you with education and commercial licenses, if you don't see the configure toolbar, make sure you create a team first. If that still does not work, the update might not have been pushed to you yet.
All users that would have it should have it as of a few days ago. It was staggered only until monday the 25th I believe.
small clarification. i think that was for commecial users. EDU users are still getting it rolled out for a bit :)
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Ty for the info, why is it so hard for Autodesk to clarify this.
@@benmo2227 it was alluded to in the Whats new blog, but without specifics. I was a beta tester for configs for the past 8mo or so which is the only reason I was able to get more specifics from them I think. My guess is that they wanted to make sure the back end of the configs system scaled okay to users. Slow roll out to commercial, then edu.
@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign can't wait. I am used to it from SolidWorks and realy miss it in Fusion
All I need is; for the Parameter screen to always stay visible,
While working on the project
Yes! The effort to repeatedly bring up the Parameters window is the one thing that stops me using it as often as I should.
Great explanation, thank you!
Finally! I wish this came last year when a project I was working on really needed it. But I’m glad it exists. These kinds of features makes F360 more useful for more and more companies.
Excellent news! Thanks
That was very helpful. I missed that from my Solidworks days. It's great to see it in Fusion 360 now and I like the interface and how it goes together.
My 3d printer is down for now so I know I'll be plugged in learning what you teach.
Great features !!!!!!
Thank you very much for this video !!!
Now I can finally port most of my OpenSCAD projects to Fusion!
You are going to make all your followers a professionals 😀
Thanks for the usual clear and informative video. Really looking forwad to the staggered roll-out of this feature reaching me. Hopefully soom!
Hmm this will help to analyze tolerances.
Woohoo
Nice feature, will definitely change my workflow. But it would be nice if thet added a feature i've craving since the very start: global parameters that update between models. Such as layerHeight in 3D printing.
To do that you can create a design called like "3D printing parameters", add those parameters to the design and star them, then use the Derive feature to copy those favorited parameters into your existing designs. When the global parameters file is updated, the other designs can pull those new changes by clicking the update button that appears.
Very useful overview. Many thanks! Sadly, I am awaiting the configurations roll-out :(
Configurations will be useful for simple things - such as size-variants of a single design. I was hoping to implement a 'switch' for sizes for example, and I think configurations will do the job. Which also means I'll be interested to see what happens when 'out-of-bounds' values are input (which prevents the geometry being generated etc.).
Also: good timing from AutoDesk - I was getting a little thirsty for an update!!
- Thx. Well done, as always.
- Will be interesting to see how things work out in practice.
- I can see some possible "complications", simply due to the nature of things, and the range of possible use case, given all the possibilities in F360.
- Also, I'm concerned about performance. The simple examples you showed seemed to take an unexpectedly long time to update when things were changed. What will this be like for "involved" models? Time will tell (pun intended :) ).
From the What's New Blog for the September 2023 update of Fusion 360:
"If you don’t immediately see Configurations in your toolbar, no need to worry. We will be releasing Configurations slowly over the course of the next month, so if you do not see it today you should be able to use the functionality very shortly. By adopting a staggered approach, we aim to seamlessly integrate this powerful feature into the Fusion 360 ecosystem."
Its only going to be available when you're in a team. See my post above.
This is so cool! Can I have multiple states in a single file? I've importet my design with two states into a new design and I want to have both states displayed. But when I change one design, the other (done with an array) is also changed.
Is it possible to have multiple different configurations of the same component in the same file?
Like if I create a apartment with multiple doors which are similar, but with different hights, so that I can create this door with different configurations and then dublicate the door-component to use in the appartment (and if I e.g. change the doorknob it will update all of them but still have the right hights)?
I do not see the sense. but I believe you will show us in near future.
I use this in a couple of ways. I make assemblies in small, medium and large, configuration lets me keep them all in one file. Another way is a part will be very similar, a shaft for example, that is only different in its length, and with each length the length of the threads changes. Again all can be kept in one place. Very handy for BOM management and sharing files/parts with others when you have all the variations in one file.
Sorry, I should have explained more at the beginning. As @lgarnand318 has mentioned, configurations are very helpful when you have a series of parts that have same basic shape but have minor variations in size and features. Instead of creating multiple files, you can create one file with parameters and use these parameters to drive different configurations.
Admittedly, the example that I have created did not really showcase this. I will try to come up with better examples in a more detailed video.
@@Fusion360SchoolYes, that would be really helpful. I’m also struggling to see the use case for this tool as I already use parameters for that purpose. Great explanation of the tool though and thanks in advance!
@@russ-techindustries For a lot of users, parameters by itself is already very powerful. For designs that are "one-time" use, just the use of parameters would be enough. For a lot of manufacturers, they would often have a base stock design from which they would need to make multiple variations of. Instead of managing and editing multiple files. They can just have a single file with different configurations which can be toggled. This is a significant improvement in workflow for them.
we need some sheet metal videos,sir
this stuff is just for designers, or can benefit cam users in some way?
The update notes did mention something about activating different configurations to use them to "create manufacturing setups and generate toolpaths". I cannot really speak to that as I am not familiar with the cam workspace.
Could I ask how you could automate the following part. I have been trying to create a set of squares using only parameters to create this part for 3D printing clearance and fit testing. My idea was to create a grid of 5 x 5 squares with one row dimensioned squares of 10,9,8,7,6mm extruded 10mm. On that extrude chamfer the top and sides by 0.1mm. Then on row 2 reduce the cube size by 0.1 and the chamfer 0.1. On the following 3 rows reduce the size and chamfer by a further 0.1mm. The last row would have sizes reduced by 0.4 and the chamfer at 0.4. This way you could take a machined cube of 10,9,8,7, & 6 and check the clearance required for a force fit, tighten fit and a loose fit for using in your design. Of course squares of 10,9,8,7,6 would be kind of useless, but you get the idea. The only 2 ways I can reproduce this is a manually by hand, but if you wanted to change the primitive you would have to start again. Or using a script that takes a users input and produces the appropriate model. But I have found you end up with 1 sketch 25 x extrudes and 25 chamfers again not practical. Is there another way to automate this using patameter driven sketches and features? Perhaps using a pattern?
Maybe with patterning?
It seems to me that configurations would be a good way of doing this. Instead of extrudes, you will be creating components in the form of cubes. My thinking would be to create 5 cubes (10,9,8,7,6) which would serve as the default configuration. These 5 cubes would be a subassembly. From here, you would create a duplicate of the original subassembly and configure each of these cubes differently. You should be able to use formulae in the parameters to automate this as much as possible. After you have created the 5 subassemblies, you should be able to combine all into a single solid and print. Just some thoughts here. Not sure if this will work.
@@Fusion360School Thank you. That sounds like a good plan actually. Will have to try that as it will push my skills. I appreciate your very rapid response. Love this channel. I learn so much for your videos. Thank you
Help me! how do I get back to my old files?
Not available for personal use/free licenses?
Seems so. Suckers.
Am I the only one who didn't receive this feature in the latest update ? I do not see this option anywhere?!
Yeah, its here. If youre working from the right license, and the right hub, and its exactly 2:35 pm pacific time on a tuesday when its not too cloudy.
Seriously, for the life of me i dont understand why autodesk makes certain things so agonizingly complexe.
Nope... Not there yet. It's a gradual roll out
Not available with educational license
in will roll out to education in a week or two.
Typical Autodesk, add more extraneous feature instead of fixing the main tools.
Sir. I hope you will make a tutorial to flatten a surface from 3D to 2D. I've tried everything but can't do it in fusion 360. For example, in the following tutorial. Hope you understand what I mean
ruclips.net/video/N1kU8oroMnE/видео.html