Uncover the collaborative capabilities of Fusion 360, a cloud-based software, which allows version saving, linking of files, and seamless collaboration. Learn about the features of the data panel, data management in A360 cloud, and the role of Fusion Team in facilitating project development and collaboration.
Key Insights
- Fusion 360 is a cloud-based software that allows all data to be stored in the cloud, specifically in A360. It facilitates seamless collaboration, version saving, and file linking, making it an efficient tool for managing and organizing project files.
- The data panel in Fusion 360 features two tabs: data and people. The data tab holds all files, including Fusion designs, renderings, and text files, while the people tab allows project participants to be invited via email, providing varying levels of access to the project depending on the moderator's choice.
- Fusion Team, a web-based platform offered by Fusion 360, enables users to edit and modify project files online. It provides access to all project files, allows sharing, downloading, editing, and copying of files, and features tools for viewing, marking up, and commenting on files, making it a powerful platform for remote and collaborative work.
In this video we will look at the data panel, collaboration in Fusion 360, and we will take a quick look at Fusion Team. Fusion 360 is a cloud-based software in that it stores all of our data in the cloud, which shares the same platform as A360.
If I go to my data panel by clicking on the grid icon here, we will see our files appear here. These files are not saved to any of my local drives, but are rather saved in A360 in the cloud. If I hit this back arrow, we can see that all of my files and projects are saved in the cloud.
I can upload from my local drive to better organize my files, and I can do a file new design from file, which will also allow me to open a file from my local drives. However, Fusion is built so that we can work on cloud-based files for version saving, linking of files, and collaboration. In my data panel, we will see two tabs, data and people.
The data will hold all of our files, which include Fusion designs, renderings, text files, and any other files that Fusion supports. The people tab allows us to invite people to our project, and this can be done by simply entering their email address and hitting invite. You will see that I am the only person who currently has access to this file.
You can see that I have created this file, which automatically makes me the moderator. Fusion only allows for one moderator on each project, but anyone collaborating with the project can have different levels of access depending on the moderator's choice. Anyone with access to a Fusion 360 project can have access to subfolders, the ability to edit, create, and delete files, and can choose to leave the project whenever they would like.
Moderators can also remove users from a project, and any of the files that they have created will not be lost. At the top of our data panel, we see our current folder, a back arrow to get back to our main folder, and a refresh button. The refresh button is helpful when working with other people collaborating on our project, so that when we hit refresh, it will check to see that all of our files are the most recent version.
We can also search in our data panel to find files that we may be looking for. In the data panel, we can review our design history, upload, add new folders, and sort options. Because Fusion 360 is so collaborative, Fusion offers a web-based platform that we can edit and modify our files.
This is called Fusion Team. This is the Fusion Team website. If you want to go to this website for yourself, you can search Fusion Team, select Fusion Team, and then sign in.
I am already signed in, so I will close these tabs. Fusion Team currently offers a free 30-day trial, and it is free to people who are signed up with a three-year student slash educator license. We will not be using Fusion Team in our courses, but we would like to show you for future collaboration opportunities.
In Fusion Team, you will see access to all of the projects that you saw in your data panel. I can go into my Fusion One Fusion Essentials course, and you can see all the files that we have in our course. You will see that the lamp is currently in use by me, and I have options to share, download, edit on desktop, in browser, or copy.
If I click on the lamp, you will see again that it is in use, and all of the information related to this project is found in this window. Comments can be found here. Uses, used in, and drawings.
Renderings are found at the bottom of the page. If we go up to the top right of our screen, we will see view and edit. This will allow us to edit it on our desktop or in the Fusion 360 browser editing, but for now I would like to hit view, and you will see here a basic overview of our file.
We can orbit, pan, change our camera, and zoom settings, but also mark up and add comments, and even look at our model with section analysis and inspection tools. I can go back to the overview page by clicking the overview button. I will close my browser and close my data panel.
It is important while transitioning into Fusion 360 that you embrace the cloud-based hosting of files and collaboration. This is the future of Autodesk products, and you will see us in our courses using the data panel for opening and accessing all of our files. I will see you in the next video.