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Fusion 360 Shortcuts & Custom Add-Ins

Fusion 360 has great modeling tools but surprisingly poor native keyboard shortcut support — no quick keys for Home View, Front, Top, etc. That's baffling for a major CAD platform.

The free AnyShortcut add-in (v1.1.2 by Thomas A) fixes this by letting you assign shortcuts to almost any command, including ones Fusion doesn't expose natively.

Download it here:

https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=156700835167123223&appLang=en&os=Win64

AnyShortcut works by creating (or using built-in) command buttons you can then bind to keys. It's not ideal, but it's effective.

The following are all custom Python add-ins I built to fill gaps in Fusion's workflow. They live in the Tools tab (Utilities panel) and play nicely with AnyShortcut for key bindings.

LookAt v1.00

One-key "Look At" for a selected face — snaps the view perpendicular to it instantly.

ViewDeck v1.00

Dedicated buttons for standard views: Home, Front, Top, Left, Right, Back, Bottom, Isometric, etc. I map these to my numpad for fast navigation.

RollTimeline v1.00

Single-key timeline stepping: move the marker left/right one step at a time.

Fusion Exporter v1.00

Fast bulk export of parametric .F3D files from cloud projects to local drive (~1 file/sec). Much quicker than existing cloud exporters.

STL Exporter (No Prompt) v1.00

One-click STL export of selected body or root component. Hardcoded to very high refinement (editable in the Python script).

STL Exporter (Prompt) v1.00

Same as above, but pops a dialog to let you adjust surface deviation, normal deviation, max edge length, and aspect ratio each time.