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In this list, I have compiled my favourite Fusion 360 tips and shortcuts that you should definitely apply in your draft workflow. Currently, the tips are maternal to modelling and sketching environment only but I volition soon update the list with tips from other workspaces like sculpting (form), forum, drafting and surfacing.

Tip 1:

To repeat the last used command in Merger 360 bu right click hold your pointer and drag your mouse up arsenic shown in the GIF image below.

Tip 2:

When making a line using line command attend the endpoint of the line again when the command is active and hold down the left mouse button and move information technology outwards, it wish now create an bow if the mouse click is pressed. Let go your shiner click to once again constitute a line. Take the reference of connected animated gif image for more.

Tip 3:

When objects like plane etc are obscured by other objects and you want to pick out the obscure objects and then click and harbor your pointer above lap-streaked objects. You will get ahead a menu of overlapping items, select your needed object from this list. Take the reference of the following animated persona for Sir Thomas More.

Tip 4:

When you type S in the sketch environment operating theater 3D environs a shortcut venire will show up where you can search for the commands exploitation the command name and you can even pin the often used commands on this control board for prompt access as shown in the full of life gif image below.

Crown 5:

When making drawing in the vignette surround Fusion automatically snaps to nearby reference points. If you lack to temporarily disable the snapping to nearest points, then press and hold ctrl key and information technology volition stop snapping to any point if ctrl is pressed. Release ctrl to activate snapping again.

Tip 6:

When fashioning sketches on planes obscured aside other 3D geometries you can slice the piece which is in a higher place the plane of construction by selecting the slice pick from the constraints panel while in the study environs as shown in the animated gif image below.

Tip 7:

To convert a text into geometry object you indigence to explode IT which can constitute through by selecting the text and selecting the explode text pick from the letter-perfect linguistic context menu. For extruding the textual matter "explode text" is not needed and a schoolbook can glucinium extruded even without increasing it.

Tip 8:

Adding distance constraint between two circles adds constraint between centre of the circles just if you want to add that between points of tangency then select D dominate (for property restraint) then right-click and select "Nibble Set/Arc Tangent" from the circumstance options and apply the constraints again and this sentence it will be added between tan points and not the centre.

Tip 9:

To change over a resume into grammatical construction geometry simply select the sketch in the sketch environment and hit the X key from your keyboard and the selected sketch will be born-again to grammatical construction geometry.

Lean on 10:

When adding a multidimensional or nonrepresentational constraint if you want to select the midpoint of a line or an arc and then blue-ribbon the constraint entreat and hold the shift key then move your pointer close to the mid dry pint area of the geometry and the cursor will tear apart to the midpoint arsenic shown in the lively gif below.

Which of these tips perform you find most useful? and do you have a tip which we can use in this list, let me know in the comments infra?

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