From the course: Fusion 360 Modeling Techniques and Workflow

Running Fusion on your computer - Fusion 360 Tutorial

From the course: Fusion 360 Modeling Techniques and Workflow

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Running Fusion on your computer

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- One of the things that make Fusion 360 such a powerful program is the fact that you can run it on both Mac OS and windows operating system, as well as on a multitude of different types of hardware. Now, in the past, I found a little difficult to get a really good hardware specification sheet of what works best on Fusion. So, I'm going to kind of give you guys a rundown of what I'm running and what I've learned on systems and hardware. Now Fusion 360 is like most modeling software out there, where, in the modeling environment, you're using mostly a Single core and so high clock speed on that Core matters a lot. Now, Fusion 360 does use some Multi-core processing, mostly in Cam and Simulation. I am starting to see more and more in the modeling environment, it seems to be using more Cores, but, it's still using primarily one. So, the best CPU that I found to use is the Intel I9-9900 K, now, that is a eight core chip. So, for the Cam and on the Simulation side, it's really powerful, but you still get a turbo mode of five gigahertz on your Single Core. Now, I'm running an All Water-cooled System on this workstation, so, I'm able to get an All core overclock at five gigahertz. So it's really helpful, especially on the cam side, running some big parts, like most modeling software, once you start getting in assemblies and parts and building everything up, they get pretty bad, big, pretty fast. So, having a lot of memory is helpful, on this system, I'm running 32 gigabytes of DDR 4 3200 Ram. And that seemed to be quite a bit to be able to support most of the assemblies that were running in Fusion. Like most modeling softwares or OSs running a fast SSD is just really nice and keeps everything fresh. I'm running a Samsung 970 pro M.2 NVME SSD, And that's been super fast and really helpful. Now, the most important thing, once you get past the CPU is your GPU. I only really run Nvidia GPUs because I've had really good luck with them, they're definitely stable. So, I have a Nvidia GTX, 1066 gigabyte my memory, and it's been very, very helpful. The six gigabytes of memory is great, so that I can put my entire model sits in, can sit inside of memory on the GPU, so, it just accesses everything really quick. And it works really well in 3D Environments, especially in T-splines, it's a great setup, On the input side, I have a space mouse that I use. I'm using 3Dconnexion SpacePilot Pro, which is an older version of their engineering space pilot it's a great mouse, I love it a lot. It really helps allowing you to navigate in 3D really easily. And on the keyboard and mouse set up, I'm running. just a pretty basic logic tech set up here. It's not that compared to my 3D mouse, for me, I come from a 3D modeling background. So I really rely on my 3D mouse quite a bit. So, hopefully that kind of helps a little bit, You can really run Fusion on anything. I've run Fusion on Microsoft Surface, Basic Units. I've run it on Intel NUCs and I've run it on Commercial, really expensive, really big workstations. And it works on everything really well. But, the setup that I explained before, is just kind of the one that I've had the most luck with and just really gotten a really good return on my setup. So, hopefully that's helpful.

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