PCB designing with Autodesk Fusion 360

RE: PCB designing with Autodesk Fusion 360

ruch — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:08:20 GMT

I am stuck in my fusion design - I have 2 pcb boards designed in fusion360. From that design how to generate the drill legend or drill table? Also want to generate dxf file from Run ULP feature infusion - how to do that? because it asks for some drillpan.ulp file. Where and ow to get .ulp file? Thank You so much for help and responses.

RE: PCB designing with Autodesk Fusion 360

ariajames_121 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:57:54 GMT

It is really interesting to hear about your experience with Fusion 360 I can imagine the shift from EAGLE must have been a bit challenging at first but it is great that you are finding it easy to use The fact that it integrates PCB design with mechanical modeling sounds like a big advantage How has your overall experience been so far compared to EAGLE.

RE: PCB designing with Autodesk Fusion 360

shabaz — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:43:00 GMT

Just pasting the dev-kit Gerber file screenshots here, so it's easier to compare if you're making any modifications to your layout.

I think if you don't need all GPIO, it would be preferable to eliminate some, if it means you'll get a fuller ground plane. The screenshot below only shows about 7 signals on the bottom layer, plus a power connection, so if you can skip 7 GPIO, maybe that could help a lot. Of course, if you need that GPIO, then this won't be an option : (

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RE: PCB designing with Autodesk Fusion 360

shabaz — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:26:03 GMT

The ground plane is very broken, so it will be worth trying to reroute things to keep it as solid as possible. One trick is to check the Gerber files or images of eval/demo boards, to see how the manufacturer routed the part, and to see how they handled the RF traces.

Does the free version support 4-layers? If so, it could be worth moving to that.

Also, it's worth running the EAGLE design rule checks, in case there are issues (the pads for one of the connectors look as if they are too close together).

RE: PCB designing with Autodesk Fusion 360

Andrew J — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:24:37 GMT

I thought AutoDesk were rolling Eagle into Fusion 360, hence its ‘discontinuance’. This would make it easy for you as its operation should be the same. Mind you, it isn’t cheap as you point out! I do own a licensed copy of Fusion (£465 per year in the UK) but haven’t used its PCB capabilities as I have a preference for KiCad. Although to be fair I haven’t yet used Fusion to model a product that requires a PCB. I guess the benefit would come with all information and design of a Product in one project.