Creating Fusion 360 Angular Dimensions for Special Angles

Fusion 360 has some amazing tools but it is a new product and it is still being developed to handle all 2D drawing dimensional needs.  In a recent Fusion 360 Forum post a situation was presented where Fusion 360 would not recognize the edges of a tapered cut on a round object.  The user was trying to create the following dimension which I created in an Inventor 2D drawing.

Since the part is round and the angle cut in completed around the diameter, the two angle edges created in the section are not recognized by Fusion 360.  I have created a short video showing my workaround for this issue.  It is not perfect but it is better than not being able to create the dimension at all.

I would like to thank Adam Krefting for the use of his Fusion 360 model which I used in my video.

Updating or Refreshing Custom Content Center Parts in Inventor

In my past two videos I have covered how to create a Custom Content Center Library part (CCCL) and publishing it to your custom library and then demonstrated how to add parameters to the previously published CCCL part.  You can find the first video here and the second one here if you would like to review these first.

In this short video I will cover the process of changing the parametric values in a CCCL part and how to make Inventor realize that the change has occur and allow you to use the Refresh command to update any existing CCCL parts.  I also talk about how to prevent the use of an instance from the CCCL part in future assemblies but maintain the parts for assemblies where they have already been used.