Fusion 360 preferences and settings for 3D printing

Fusion 360 is a feature-rich software for computer-aided design, simulation, and manufacturing. As such, it has numerous preferences and settings that can be customized to fit your specific workflow. In this book, we are mostly focusing on using Fusion 360 for additive manufacturing. We already touched on some of the basic preferences, such as how to set the default units and the ability to capture design history versus design using direct modeling, back in Chapter 1. In this chapter, we will dig a bit deeper and go over all the settings and preferences as well as some preview features that are available for improving our workflow for additive manufacturing.

We can start to simplify our use of Fusion 360 for additive manufacturing by accessing the Preferences dialog by selecting the Avatar icon in the top-right corner of the user interface as shown in Figure 7.1. The Preferences dialog has a browser on the left-hand side. By selecting...