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

The Autodesk Fusion 360 update for May 2023 is here, and we’re continuing last month’s theme: showcasing the breadth of Fusion 360 as a platform, with the electronics, design, simulation, and additive and subtractive manufacturing updates in a single video.

This video runs the gamut. There are electronics improvements like flexible access to the Signal Integrity Extension, powered by Ansys, to help verify your PCB design. There are simulation updates like report creation capability for injection molding. There are design updates like plastic lip creation to speed up your modeling. There are updates to the manufacturing workspace, including a range of additive improvements and new 4-axis machining strategies.

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

Chapters:

00:00 Welcome to the May 2023 What's New for Fusion 360!
00:29 General Improvements - Snooze Updates
00:59 General Improvements - Resize Dialogs
01:20 Electronics - Signal Integrity Extension Flexible Access
02:08 Electronics - Support for Arrow Keys When Pasting
03:04 Electronics - New DRC Engine
03:47 Electronics - Convert Pin Breakout Command Dialog
04:28 Electronics - Editable Layer Sets for Silkscreen
05:12 Electronics - Improved DXF Import
05:39 Electronics - New Image Print Configuration in CAM with Preview
06:19 Simulation - Updated Injection Molding Material Database
06:41 Simulation - Cloud Solve Performance
07:02 Simulation - Report Capability for Injection Simulation
07:41 Design - Plastic Lip Feature
08:19 Design - Edit in Place Command List Update
09:08 Design - Conditional Parameter Functionality
09:41 Design - Copy With Drawings
10:13 Design - Mesh Conversion for Volumetric Lattice
11:00 Additive Manufacturing - Volumetric Lattice Slicing
11:40 Additive Manufacturing - FFF Unique Slicing Settings Per Support Type
12:07 Additive Manufacturing - Additive Arrange Component Selection Improvements
12:43 Additive Manufacturing - Additive Highlighting Enhancements
13:02 Additive Manufacturing - 3MF Export
13:33 Additive Manufacturing - Thumbnail Images
14:01 Manufacturing - No Dragging Turning
14:28 CNC Milling - Rotary Pocket
14:52 CNC Milling - Rotary Contour
15:49 CNC Milling - Extended 5-Axis Options
16:23 CNC Milling - Flat Profile
16:52 Nesting & Fabrication - New Options for Automated Arrange
17:58 Machine Collisions and Warnings Reporting
18:51 Thanks for joining us for the May 2023 What's New in Fusion 360!

CONNECT with Fusion 360 on social media:

[evanbarnes]

Please make it so that keyboard shortcuts like Tab let you switch from one button or field in a dialog box to the next. This has been requested so many times and is just absolutely basic and essentially functionality.

[argonprototypes]

For milling manufacturing, 2 features off the top of my head I'd like to see are:
1. 2D Contour: Automatic recognition of the best lead-in point to minimize the lead-in tool engagement mark. For O.D. contours this would be the corner edge. (Also applicable for the Flat "profile" unveiled here, which I probably won't use due to this limiting factor and its inferior surface finish)

2. 2D Contour/2D Chamfer: For chamfering, an automatic tip offset based on each contour path's minimum radii that maximizes the SFM of the tool, with an appropriately scaled feed rate. For instance, use the maximum tip offset for 2" holes on the model at full feedrate, and the tip for the 0.1" holes at 20% feedrate. A dialogue box to change the minimum radii path to follow would be nice as well

[wilddog]

Native Apple silicon support would be nice. Any update? It has been a long time...

[davem]

RE-SIZING dialogs is great, but we also need to resize the width of the component browser tree and the data panel!

[ksanalyticalsystems]

Conditional statements in parameters is huge. Parameters allow me to avoid creating hundreds of variant files to begin with, adding conditional statements might cut to required designs by 50%! Great feature! Contours in "flat" strategy will also be very useful!

[mab]

Finally !!! some very important additions in parameters (logical operators and logic functions)

[LongLiveCheems]

I know this has been said before, but are we ever going to get a dark mode option that similar to Inventor?

[davem]

We also need a customisable NAVIGATION BAR!

[wehiird]

Geezus thank gos for the update snooze feature!!!

[stanislav]

Why there are more features than Inventor has? For example, they still did not implement a rotary machining in Autodesk HSM which is more expensive than Fusion

[steinarne]

Hmm... Get an simulation error when doing lathe work, it says my holder is colliding, no matter what i do with holder shape and insert geometry.

[davem]

STILL NO LIVE BILL OF MATERIALS/COMPONENT LIST VIEW!!!

[rdsully]

pleaes include mesh functions show up in the parametric timeline.

[pmcquay]

Maybe stop forgetting parameters of basic operations if they have warnings? I shouldnt have to remember what radius a fillet is because I deleted something 20 operations before it.

Also, If I delete a thing, dont just delete related things? I dont understand why the warning state cant be used for everything.

In the same vein, a list of operations that depend on an operation would be nice.

[tomek_FORCE]

Please make the "FLAT" operation able to compensate tool diameter.

[jc]

Does fusion360 have a broaching process?

[so_i_learn_d]

Hello I am so i learn 3D, curious paasio vehicle designer

Other problems with siglalés and improved for my part:
The slow fusion even with an RTX 3060 (making it possible to use your own graphics card)
-Crashes
-The work that is lost by merging
- performance improvements
-impossible to now render in the canvas (it is very very very slow since the last two updates)
-the recording of files which is recorded ad infinitum when you want to close fusioon
-the addition of movement kinemaatics from the view port (similar to software, belender, cinema 4D)
-improved management of T spine errors because sometimes there are invisible errors and you can't see them (use the iac)
- improvement of the correction of errors in the timeline, because fixing all the errors manually is very very long
-adding a dark mode
-improve file exportation and opening

Thank you for this great software

[dalecollison]

And still waiting for iges output for tube lasers. So many have been asking for 3 years now. You can change the outputbin inventor now but still not fusion. Frustrating to have to continually go to solidworks to re save all iges files.

[joearledge]

Has anyone else been having insane problems with fusion over the past week or so?? I've got the free version, and I'm fairly new. I only have one design started, a simple bullet mold for my first project. Fusion was working ok, then started bogging down, locking up, and crashing. Thought it was my laptop finally not being able to keep up. So, I bought a new one that has double the requirements that autodesk lists(RAM, graphics, ect...). Other than what came on the laptop from the factory, Fusion was the only thing on this new comp. I did all of the updates for the computer and fusion. Then tried to draw a 1.5" line and fusion locks up and crashes. Same thing happens if I try to delete a line, or do anything else really. Fusion says they don't support the free version, and their website won't let me post to the forums. I reported that to Autodesk, who said they couldn't identify the problem 🤦‍♂️. So I got on with tech support for the new computer, we tried everything, ending in a factory reset. And fusion still doesn't work. I'm not trying to reengineer a flux capacitor. I'm trying to make a simple bullet mold and learn cad, cam, and milling. Anyone had similar problems or any advice? At this point I can confidently say that if I ever get to the point of buying cad/cam software, Fusion will absolutely not be it. Product doesn't function, no support available, no ability to post to forums to ask questions, and no customer service for that either...

[meanGoreng]

still wanting the ' maya style ' navigation controls option. please. after all this time. please

why is this important ? moving between so many apps that all support the option. jump into fusion and the cognitive load of making the switch throws you out of rhythm