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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.

In the video, the focus and zoom is all done with one keyboard shortcut.

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.

Every view is it's own hotkey. 5 for Home, 8 for Top, 2 for Bottom, etc. Makes sense on the numpad...

All the moves in the video are done via the keyboard.

RollTimeline v1.00

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

In the video I have them bound to + and - on my keyboard for easy toggling.

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.

You can assign this to a hotkey if you want, but I just click it in the drop down menu.

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).

A big clickable icon. But you can have it as a hotkey if you want.

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.

A big clickable icon. But you can have it as a hotkey if you want.

Units Converter v1.00

Quickly switch back and forth from metric and imperial via shortcut key. Great for models that have to use both.

That's me pressing CTRL + SHIFT + U in the video.

Toggle All Sketches v.100

Fusion has options to Show All Components and Show All Bodies, but not one for Show All Sketches. This plugin fixes that.

That's me pressing CTRL + SHIFT + A in the video.