What's New in Fusion 360 - April 2023 | Autodesk Fusion 360

The Autodesk Fusion 360 update for April 2023 is here, and we’re breaking from tradition, with a single video that showcases the breadth of Fusion 360 as a platform: with electronics, design, simulation, and additive and subtractive manufacturing all in one.

This Fusion 360 YouTube video covers electronics improvements like graphics updates and collapsible panels, that will speed up your PCB design; generative design updates like symmetry planes that will increase your productivity; drawing automations to create hole centerlines; and major updates to the manufacturing workspace to help automate your part programming, including new toolpath strategies like deburr and corner finishing, and more options for additive bar supports.

If you are long on interest but short on time, we've got the chapter markers handy for you below!

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
00:28 General Improvements
00:59 Electronics - GPU
01:55 Electronics - Import DXF/DWG
02:41 Electronics - Patterns
03:11 Electronics - Keep Via Name
03:28 Electronics - Paste To Active Layer
04:12 Electronics - Collapse Panels
04:33 Generative Design - Symmetry Plane
05:05 Generative Design - Detail Slider
05:42 Generative Design - Automated Modelling
06:12 Simulation
06:41 Design - Blend Curve
07:04 Design - Milestones
07:37 Design - Makersite Plugin
08:34 Drawings - Automatic Centerlines
09:11 Manufacturing - Inclined Flats
09:52 Manufacturing - Deburr
11:05 Manufacturing - Corner Finishing
11:51 Manufacturing - FPM and FPR
12:38 Manufacturing - Tool Presets
12:52 Manufacturing - Center Images
13:01 Manufacturing - Tool 3D Preview
13:20 Additive Manufacturing - Bar Supports
14:03 Additive Manufacturing - Section Planes
14:22 Manufacturing - API
14:56 Summary
15:11 End

CONNECT with Fusion 360 on social media:

[ElementalGarageandGaming]

Thank you for this update. I would still love to see a "dark mode, " built in for the tool bars. This would help immensely in eye strain relief. Thank you!

[No_moral_to_the_story]

Can you please add the ability to use shortcut keys for everything, such as 3d print, section analysis, etc? When you have a lagging computer it's so much easier to use shortcuts rather than going through multiple menus to do something.

[dpanzone]

We finally just got a seamless login back, seemed like it was gone for a few years. Speaking for myself, but when you can turn on a work station have fusion as a login item, and just go to work is an excellent way to get going. Please don't ruin that experience.

[RusakovLA]

Correct timestamps:
00:04 Introduction
00:28 General Improvements
00:59 Electronics - GPU
01:55 Electronics - Import DXF/DWG
02:41 Electronics - Patterns
03:11 Electronics - Keep Via Name
03:28 Electronics - Paste To Active Layer
03:45 Electronics - Move Tools to the Cloud in Library_io
04:12 Electronics - Collapse Panels
04:33 Generative Design - Symmetry Plane
05:05 Generative Design - Detail Slider
05:42 Generative Design - Automated Modelling
06:12 Simulation
06:41 Design - Blend Curve
07:04 Design - Milestones
07:37 Design - Makersite Plugin
08:34 Drawings - Automatic Centerlines
09:11 Manufacturing - Inclined Flats
09:52 Manufacturing - Deburr
11:05 Manufacturing - Corner Finishing
11:51 Manufacturing - FPM and FPR
12:38 Manufacturing - Tool Presets
12:52 Manufacturing - Center Images
13:01 Manufacturing - Tool 3D Preview
13:20 Additive Manufacturing - Bar Supports
14:03 Additive Manufacturing - Section Planes
14:22 Manufacturing - API
14:56 Summary
15:11 End

[mh]

Thanks for the update! If I may suggest something, please add Dark Mode!

[eatonasher]

It's great to see that you're back to making useful updates!! You must have returned to llistening to the community rather than deciding what was necessary yourselves :) Very good stuff!

[brameelen]

how about the pipe /rectangeler tube settings ? is there an update for frame building/construction ? corner diameter, orientation or to get step files out of it?

[animeshortsforyou]

Nice work I'm really excited to this video it's really interesting and useful

[seimela]

I still can't abandon solidworks ....but I feel that time is nearing quickly 😮❤😮

[danducky]

Love all of these features, just wish I could use this on my main Linux machine without using workarounds which I'm sure stress your servers ;)

[willofthemaker]

Is it possible to make the mobile app useable for modeling? Something like Shapr 3d for Ipad, which is free. I would love to be able to do more than twerl my models around on my phone or ipad. I have a Fold 3 which gives the bigger screen and would be really useful for quick edits and changes.

[macrobionic]

What's new for me is the loss of the rotate gesture on my Macbook Pro trackpad.

[meandmycnc]

appreciate you are doing it right. long time user since acad9...maybe even before.

[ScottMoyse]

The amount of moaning in this YouTube thread is staggering... this is a great release with great features... Nothing comes free in life.

[thewaxlab]

Nothing ever happens this fast when on the Wi-Fi at Starbucks! Lol

[Rebar_real]

Thank you for the login update. I often found myself not bothering to dig out the password if it had been a couple weeks since tinkering. One less reason for me to slack now, doh!

[sccolbert]

Would love to have a joint where you can make a joint origin follow an arbitrary 3d path. Sorta like a cylindrical joint, but where the cylinder is curved.

[steampunkwhale]

The new version crashes every time the computer enters Sleep mode (MacOS 13.x). Meaning I can’t simply step away from the computer, I have to go through and save every document I have been working on.

[markwilliams]

Snap too works correctly lol probably not lol😊 it's only been broken for 10years 😮

[vsmirald]

Love the updates and all but like most really, we need dark mode...