From there, you can select the “create base feature” option near the bottom of the list. Select the Solid Tab, and then the “create” dropdown menu. Note: The Mesh Workspace is still in preview and must be activated in your preferences dialog. Hopefully, you can start to see how this design workspace encompasses the variety of modeling tools all into one workspace. Similar to the others, this used to be its own workspace but it’s now simply a contextual tab that’s within the Design workspace. This will put you in the Mesh contextual tab with all of the relevant Mesh tools. If you select the “Create” dropdown list under the “Solid” tab, you’ll see that you can select the “Create Mesh” option. Otherwise, you’ll have to activate one of the modeling commands, which will then automatically close the sketch tab. You either have to click the “Finish Sketch” button in the sketch tab, which was previously labeled “Stop Sketch”. The Sketch contextual tab will remain “active” (highlighted in blue) until you do one of two things. Sketch constraints are not only a little bit easier to access up in the toolbar, but you can now also apply custom keyboard shortcuts to them, which was something that was not available when the constraints were in the sketch palette. All of the sketch constraints will now appear in the toolbar. The other big change with this is the fact that they’ve decided to remove the sketch constraints from the sketch palette. The nicest thing about this improvement is that the toolbar has much more room to display the sketching related features. This was formerly labeled the “Sketch” dropdown list. When you’re in the sketch tab or the sketch environment, you’ll see that the “Create” dropdown list now includes all of the sketch geometry. To enter the sketch environment (now the sketch contextual tab) you’ll have to select “Create Sketch” or use one of the sketch shortcuts with the shortcut keys or the shortcut box. One of the big changes is the fact that you will no longer see the Sketch dropdown list while you’re in the Design workspace. This also gives you more room to customize your toolbars. The idea with the contextual tabs is that they take away all of the clutter or features that you won’t be using in your current state, which allows for more room of features that you may need.
#AUTODESK FUSION 360 SHEET METAL UPDATE#
One of the largest changes with this update is the new addition of contextual tabs. Within the Tools tab, you’ll find the 3D Print dialog, add-ins, and scripts, as well as your inspect and analysis tools. The Tools tab includes all of the features that don’t correlate specifically to one type of modeling. The Sheet Metal tab includes all of the sheet metal tools that were formerly in the “Sheet Metal Workspace”. These features used to be located in the “Patch Workspace”. The Surface tab includes all of the surface modeling tools. The Solid tab includes all of the solid (parametric) modeling tools that were formerly in the Model workspace. You’ll see there are four tabs within the Design Workspace. The Model Workspace has been renamed the Design Workspace. The new UI includes the addition of tabs within workspaces. Note: You won’t see the “Generative Design” Workspace if you’re on the Education or Startup/Hobbyists license. However, eventually, they’ll make working in Fusion 360 much more efficient and intentional. These updates will take a little bit of time to get used to. The new toolbar improves the organization and hierarchy of tools. Notice the eyeball icons on the left (new) replacing the lightbulb icons on the right (old). If the object is turned off then the eyeball icon is light gray and also has a slash through it. The eyeball is dark gray if the object is turned on. Now, with the update, you’ll see the visibility icons are represented with an eyeball icon. Originally, this was depicted by a lightbulb being yellow if it was visible, while a blue lightbulb meant the object was hidden or “turned off”. Previously, the Fusion 360 Browser used a lightbulb icon to show the visibility of objects. Shades of blue are used more frequently throughout the icons.Most icons no longer have their solid black border around them.The icons no longer have a small drop shadow.
#AUTODESK FUSION 360 SHEET METAL PLUS#
The “Create Sketch” icon now has a green plus symbol and no longer includes a pencil icon.As in, these icons will also be used in Autodesk Inventor and other Autodesk products. This is part of a larger plan to make the icons more unified across all Autodesk products. You’ll notice that (almost) all of the icons used throughout Fusion 360 have been updated.