Post: "Moving from fusion 360 to solidworks"
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[comment u/HarryBalsagna1776] As they grew and their products got more advanced, they had to switch to NX or CREO.
“1)learn to organize your feature tree. The Solidworks FT is very different from how Fusion does it. First thing you should do is turn on viewing of dynamic relations. This allows you to see what features/sketches rely upon/support 1.1) try to keep fillets and drafts out of Sketches unless absolutely necessary. Instead use the feature to apply them at the end of the feature tree. Your boss and cu”
u/SadLittleWizard85 points · Sep 26, 2026View
“A great model is one on which major design changes can be made without having to spend too much time fixing broken context. Be very deliberate on how your relations depend on each other once you get into more complex designs.”
u/cptawesome_1323 points · Sep 26, 2026View
“lol.. I went the opposite direction. I used Solidworks for 25 years and switch to Fusion for their cloud features. The two are so similar that the transition was seamless. Enjoy Solidworks!”
u/CondenastCruiser5 points · Sep 26, 2026View
“Did you design this assembly? Or collect parts from somewhere? That’s wild if you designed this. Lots of little moving parts and kinematics going on. I can only think the best way will be to just start trying to make a part you know has a lot of different modeling features and Google “Solidworks equivalent of Fusion 360 extrude” or whatever. That’s how I went from Creo to Solidworks. And Solidwo”
u/dblack11073 points · Sep 26, 2026View
“The Avro arrow!”
u/Dinkins_Man2 points · Sep 26, 2026View
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"excerpt": "turn on dynamic higlight if its off. helps you select right edges an faces since it gihlights them when you hover mouse on top of them",
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"excerpt": "a few things that helped me switch from fusion to SW specifically for large assemblies with moving parts, since that's what you asked about:\n\n references vs direct geometry mates: in fusion, components tend to reference your parametric timeline. in SW, mates reference specific geometry on OTHER parts, which creates external references. when those parts get renamed or restructured, mates can silent",
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