There was a recent question on the Fusion 360 Customization forum about using an RGB value to set the color of a body. Fusion 360 only allows you to assign an appearance to a body, occurrence, or face. You can’t just assign an RGB value but you can assign an appearance that is the color …
I thought of a technique for creating interesting shaped wooden models a few years ago but didn’t have the equipment to be able to test it. It was just recently that I gained access to equipment that would let me try it out. I’m calling the technique “Sub-additive Manufacturing”. It combines some of the ideas …
Some of you may know that I’ve been writing the Shaper Utilities app that allows you to export Fusion 360 designs to be used with the new Shaper Origin router. For those of you not familiar with the Shaper Origin router, it’s a new handheld CNC router that is unique in the power tool marketplace. …
In the December 2017 update of Fusion 360, a capability referred to as “Temporary B-Rep” was added to the API. This is one of those features that when you first see it you might say, “why would I ever use that?”. It is a feature that’s not used very often but when you do need …
Unlike Inventor, Fusion 360 doesn’t support the ability to create a spline based on an equation. However, using the Fusion 360 API you can create close approximations of equation curves. You do this by creating a spline through a series of points. You write code that uses the equation to define the X, Y, and Z …