Animation in Fusion 360 – knowledgebase JJ

Creating animations in Fusion 360 allows you to showcase your designs dynamically by simulating the assembly or disassembly of components, demonstrating how parts interact, or presenting the functionality of your product

Let’s start by selecting the animation option from Design toolbar

An interface like this will be opened

Now when the View option is clicked it will start recording, the recording is marked by a red dot on the icon

The We rotate the object and set the set to 10 seconds by dragging the marker at the bottom

Now we can replay it can see the recorded video
If we want to change the camera angle, we can bring the marker to the time where it needs to be changed and rotate the object

Then two camera Icon will be formed below
Now we need add motion to the objects
For that lets select transform option

Now select the part to which motion needs to be selected

Now select the degree it needs to be rotated, here we give 360

Now we can see it is applied to only 2 seconds in the timeline, we can stretch it into 10 but then the rotation will be very slow

To solve this right, click on the bar and select edit action

Lets change the 360 degrees to 360*5 that is, 360 degree is 2 seconds then 360 times 5 will be 10 seconds
Then the rotation will be proper

Similarly, we can select the next part and give –360 times 5 degree so it rotates in the opposite direction

Now we can give movement to the individual parts
For this start by selecting the individual components
In this case we select the four screws at the bottom
We drag the marker in the bottom timeline to the beginning
Then we up them up to a certain position and click OK
Now at the starting of the recording the screws will be in their new position

Now we need to move the marker at the bottom timeline to a particular second at which we want the screws to fall back into place
And then we pull the screws back and click OK

Now we can see the duration of the screws in the bottom timeline

At the start the screws will be above and will gradually fall into place in between the start and selected new time
Now to save the video click on the publish icon