Good Practice

Helpful Habits for Fusion

Timeline Organization

At the bottom of the design workspace, for most files, you should see a timeline of all of the things added to the file. This is not the same thing as an edit history, instead, think of it more like the series of instructions the software is using to generate your objects. If your file does not have a timeline, for instance, if it's an imported file, you can create one by right-clicking the parent component in the tree and toggling timeline capture.

Clicking the gear in the bottom right and checking "Color Swatch" allows for color coordination of parts.

Redundant/Excessive Sketches

Projections/Arbitrary Definitions

Line Colors/Overlapping Lines

Design Resiliency

Component Nesting

Commit Messaging

Shortcuts

In Solid workspace:

• S - shortcut menu (search for tools)

• I - measure

• J - joint

• F - fillet

• M - move

• E - extrude

In Sketches:

• S - shortcut menu

• L - line

• R - rectangle

• C - circle

• P - project

• D - dimension

• O - offset

• T - trim

• M - move

• I - measure

Naming Convention