The user interface for Fusion 360 can be slightly overwhelming because there are so many options and settings that you can adjust, but once you get the hang of the basic workflow, it does become easily very quickly. It can export STL files with ease and can even import design file types to be edited.įusion 360 works best for solid modeling rather than for sculpting, so it’s important to know what type of models you are wanting to create before jumping in. Many people use Fusion 360 for all their 3D printing modeling. I found “ ” which does a better job for me that some of the other web services for file conversion, and free.9 Best Fusion 360 Alternatives for 3D Printing Is Fusion 360 Good for 3D Printing?įusion 360 is a great modeling software for 3D printing as it’s a pretty straightforward application to use and can produce simple or highly detailed models. DXF derived stuff appears better behaved - I haven’t done as much, but it hasn’t blown up yet.Learned to -always- save before regenerating the toolpaths or changing a toolpath parameter. The problem is particularly bad if you adjust a sketch/geometry, then go back and regenerate the toolpaths. I crashed F360 probably 50-60 times over the course of a couple days messing with toolpaths against SVG derived geometry. This doesn’t happen with geometry in the model that is exclusively “native”, and DXF derived geometry seems better behaved as well (ie. Generating CAM operations (usually after changing parameters) very, very, frequently results in a crash.Because you can’t move the inserted SVG geometry in the sketch it turns into a lot of extra fussing with the initial insert. This is where things start to come apart though. You can then create geometry from them via push/pull, which is again great.

You can stick them in a sketch, which is great.I can scale and move DXF after insert, but not SVG. Something about them doesn’t work like other objects.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to move/scale an imported SVG after initial import.

I attached an SVG that is one of these “ok now, wait until later” instigators. That makes it a little hard to demonstrate with just the file.

They seem to pretty reliably come into F360, the problems are all later.

Inkscape svg for fusion 360