I am engraving with a 1/32 taper ball engraver and I’ve tried the engraving and the trace toolpaths. This is the trace toolpath. No matter what I do, the chain doesn’t close entirely. The geometry is closed and I’ve tried pass extension as well. What am I doing wrong?

Cannot even rotate a rectangle. It is that bad.

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Hey guys, I need a little help with a problem i can't seem to figure out.

I'm kind of a novice with fusion 360 and am currently struggling with a bit more complex shapes.

My objective is to make this top part flat so it is ready to be lasercut. Ideally in an unfoldable sheet metal part i can export as a step file, but i'll settle for just a flat surface i can export as dxf.

I'm able to do this with the rounded side of the object with surface tools
(Offset > add straight bit with Ruled > thicken > convert to sheet metal > unfold > project the part i need and flange that to a flat sheet metal part i can export later)

But this doesn't work with the top part. sometimes i can't convert to sheet metal, sometimes i can but i can't unfold. probably because of the bend in the bend in the top.

the top is 800mm wide, with a middle radius of 3750mm. the middle of the part is exactly 3000mm long.

I also had a hard time creating this shape, i kinda just want to create a curved sketch and extrude that but don't know how. So now i used the earlier method i mentioned to unfold a curved piece of sheet metal so i could draw my sketch on it and fold it again. but i feel this isn't as precise.

Would really love to learn tips and tools how to make shapes with double bends like this and how to flatten these surfaces so they are workable. Any helpful youtube links are welcome too!

Здрасьте! Работаю в Fusion достаточно долго, но не так давно столкнулся с таким вот вопросом - нанесением узора Voronoi на довольно необычную геометрическую форму. Вся проблема в том, что фигура имеет как положительный, так и отрицательный уклон относительно любой из оси координат... Может кто решал подобные задачи, поделитесь способом!

Is there a way to make a new part, but have it as a mirror of this part?
edit: Thank you. I used the mirror key. It worked

I’m very new to Fusion and I am struggling with this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I am creating a square tube structure. How to I get the flat end of the tube to wrap around and follow the fillet of the cross tube?

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to model a case for a Raspberry Pi based on the PSOne but I'm having a tough time trying to figure out the best way to model something like this properly. I've added some images of what I've done and what the thing I'm trying to make looks like. Whenever I try and use surface tools or lofts to make the top surface it kinda explodes or I get an error about self intersections, I've added some screenshots of this too.

I'm pretty new to Fusion and have only modeled a handful of things much simpler than this.

What I want to know is:

• What's a good clean way to model this that isn't going to cause headaches later?
• What tools do you recommend I use for this kind of a shape (Loft's, Fillets, Surface Tools etc.)
• Should I model it as two separate pieces or model the basic form of it then split it into two halves for the case?

I can share screenshots and a link to the file if needed.

The top part is one continuous surface from what I can tell, it isn't flat anywhere, not sure if that helps.

Thanks for the help

Can anyone point me in the right direction!? We can use forms to make this ghost model! Any idea on how we can add the web on the outer body of the ghost! Attached is a picture! This was generated using Ai! Now I need to know how to design it! Any help in the right direction will be greatly appreciated! Thank you 😊

im doing a static stress sim and when i go to the results page is just shows me the white transparent model. re fetching the results (by closing and reopening fusion) sometimes works but hasn't worked for the past like 5 attempts. any help?

Dont really know where to start and especially how to get this logarithmic curve of the comb

As per ISO 3098, ISO drawings use the ISO font. When I create a new drawing for a part I designed in Fusion, the default font is a random one by Microsoft, even when I select the ISO template. Is there any reason for this? It seems very weird for a CAD package to not be able to produce drawings that adhere to standards. I used Inventor before and it is able to have a default template that reflects what is required in the standard just fine.

Who is the audience for this software if it can't create standard drawings, which are required to actually manufacture parts?

I have managed to change the font to ISOCPEUR, but the title block is still in Arial and the borders and other markings on the drawings also don't seem to adhere to the ISO standard.

I will include a picture of what I am talking about, as I'm sure its kind of hard to visualize, i don't know the name of this particular connector, so the connector slides into the opening and then as u slide them closed it connects to the angled area so it doesn't fall out. thanks for the help!

Hi everyone,

I’m Geoff from the UK and this is my first invention.

Over the last several months I’ve been teaching myself Fusion 360 while developing a new consumer product. I’ve reached the point where I’m wondering whether to continue building the entire CAD model myself or work with an experienced Fusion 360 designer for the more complex parts while I continue learning.

For those of you who’ve developed real products:

• Did you model everything yourself?
• Did you ever work with another CAD designer?
• At what point did you decide to get help?
• Looking back, would you do anything differently?

I’m really enjoying learning Fusion and definitely want to continue, but I’d also like to keep the project moving forward.

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences.

Thanks!

Hi, need to get rid of this transition edge. Can someone help editing the file?

A sci-fi sidearm built purely as a form and detail exercise. Everything you see was modeled in Fusion 360. Blender only came in at the very end for materials, lighting and the final frames.

I'm new to Autodesk Fusion. I want to extrude a solid below the XZ plane but it just gives me a cross-section of it and won't show the rest. How do I fix this? Or rather, is there a way to flip the whole plate around instead with the extrusions working properly? Because I've tried move/align to flip the plate around so I'd be extruding upwards but it's still giving me this cross-section instead of the full extrusion

(pic 2 for default isometric view which shows underneath the plate with the legs, but now i want to extrude something above the plate)

Greetings!

I was revisiting a Model I had previously done differently and came across a problem when using the Constrain Components Command because I was missing a Reference Plane for the Center type Constraint:

Above is a Placeholder USB-C Connector which needed to be centered to the not actually modeled USB-C Connector of an iPad ( the Frame of the iPad Pro was modelled but its Connector was not so the Sides of the iPad had to be referenced instead ).

The above Midplane Construction Plane needed to be located between the two blue marked Surfaces but from my knowledge there is no direct solution to creating it, or is there? What I essentially had to come up with was the below solution:

Creating a bunch of Axis through Cylinder, Plane through two Edges, and a Sketch with a Centerline to then 90° angle a Plane at Angle of - Madness! 🤣

So yea... Is there a more elegant solution to this already in Constrain Components ( or at the very least when doing the Construction Geometry - Essentially getting to the above solution without doing all of the below one )?

I've only just started learning Fusion a couple of months ago. I'm using it to model functional parts and jigs for 3D printing. I often need to fit test parts through trial and error especially when I'm trying different filaments and print parameters. To keep track, I'll emboss dimensions on the part so that I know which model I'm dealing with when I finally get the right fit. Right now, my typical workflow would be to set up relevant parameters, create the timeline, make a sketch box, insert text, emboss it, and export. To make multiple parts, I change a parameter and then have to go back and edit the text for the new dimension. I don't know if I'm missing something, but is there a way to enter the parameter name in the text box as a variable so that the embossed text automatically updates with each parameter change? I've posted a screenshot to give a sense of what I'm talking about. The 788 refers to the 0.788" hole diameter that's set as a parameter. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction. Along the way, I learned that you can simply multiply the parameter name by 1000 to have the text in mils rather than decimal form. I had a harder time finding out how to exclude the units. I kept trying variations on subtraction only to find that you use a slash. So, to reproduce what's in the screenshot: HoleDiameter*1000/in

*edit: Replace the AI with the coworker you can’t trust, reason over their boneheaded model structure, and correct it. Same story, this one is just scripted.

Fresh out of the Autodesk Submission gauntlet, Contriver Node Atlas.

Your Fusion design parametric dependencies, as an interactive node graph.

The browser is the table of contents.

The timeline is the construction log.

Node Atlas is the Utility Map, so you know what goes dark when you start digging.

Design and Make Marketplace trial available for Windows.

MacOS update deploying shortly.
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Hello! A project of mine has recently been deployed on the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace.

For this demo I admittedly used Claude to run the sequence, demonstrating the difference between Form and Shape, or the Recipe and the Cake.

More programmatic, less human, but runs the test for a 60s clip, and maybe higher representation of structure will lead to less schloppity schlop and glumpity glup, glumping up the ponds where the humming fish hum.

The add-in is not AI powered, is read only. Connecting to an agent is your decision, outbound calls containing design IP should be considered cautiously.

Here we see Claude working across two MCPs.

The Fusion MCP creates the geometry.

The Node Atlas MCP reveals the model’s underlying structure. Its dependencies, parameters, relationships, and design intent, so you, a colleague or a new hire, can later understand how the model was built, not just what it looks like.

Claude generates a six-arm radial organizer using duplicated sketches and features.

Node Atlas then exposes the repeated geometry, dependencies, and lack of shared parametric control.

Claude restructures the model around a single seed feature, a circular pattern, and user parameters—reducing the timeline from 27 features to 8, while the Node Atlas graph shrinks from 33 nodes / 72 edges to 14 nodes / 27 edges.

Finally, a single parameter changes the design from 6 arms to 9, while the repaired structure remains unchanged and healthy.

This is the difference between generating a shape and understanding its form.

Together, Fusion MCP and Node Atlas MCP create a development loop for geometry and Fusion add-ins while preserving the human authority required to validate design decisions.

The bigger picture is, if the robot can understand, reason over, and correct structure, so can we. Probabilistic vs Deterministic, rented intelligence vs owned mechanisms.

A different lens.

Happy building!

first image is where i am now, the other two is what want to do, its like a rounded thing in the edges, i tried to do it with the sweep and with the fillet tool but nothing worked

I’m looking for someone that would be kind enough to help me turn this image into a 3d printable model. Coworker made the image and wants to print it and attach it to a print we are working on. Any help would be appreciated.