The marketing emphasis for Inventor Fusion is "speed." The press release Autodesk Unveils Inventor Fusion Technology to Help Engineers Speed Time to Market uses the following adjectives:
- speed
- power
- accelerate
- rapid
- fast
All speed aside, what I find more interesting about Fusion is its collection of user interface tools that have new names and new looks:
Marking Menu -- an eight-segment icon menu that appears when you hold down the right-click menu.
Gesture -- a way of accessing a Marking Menu item directly: right-click and drag the mouse in the direction that you've memorized the menu segment to be positioned.
Triad -- combines AutoCAD's 3D move, scale, and rotate gizmos into a single gizmo.
Selection Strip -- lets you select overlapping entities through a filmroll-like strip.
With Autodesk's emphasis on making all of its software similar to one another, I would expect to see these UI elements in the next release of AutoCAD. You can read more about these UI items and see color figures of them in the Getting Started PDF.
"Getting Started" in Fusion means reading 123 pages mostly comprising of viewing tools?
I thought Fusion was about modelling, at least that what Buzz said here in Australia, but to look at this document it appears to more about viewing your model.
Another thought is if the viewing tools need this much explanation I think it must already be time for them to undergo some serious revue and suffer a meltdown similar to the financial market like, lets loose the cube and leave the 'Orbit' just as it is with its cube hidden in the background to retrieved as used far more effectively than that stupid, ineffective 'view cube' we currently have!
Posted by: R. Paul Waddington | Jun 24, 2009 at 06:24 AM
For what it's worth, those are Alias Wavefront retreads.
They are, in fact, good UI elements and users will find them quite useful. I sure did.
Posted by: Doug Dingus | Jun 29, 2009 at 03:33 PM