Fusion 360 Blog: For quite some time, Autodesk Fusion has had integrations with McMaster Carr, Trace Parts, and CADENAS content, each offering a vast assortment of purchase parts. It’s a great place to find anything from bearings, frames, piping, and fittings, and much more. One thing we have heard over the years is that adding fasteners is a very iterative process. There has been a strong desire to have a more integrated fastener library built right into Fusion, so that’s just what we did!
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These new features about importing pre-made objects into fusion remind me of how Vectorworks handles its huge symbols library. One of the things that make Vectorworks so powerful is that it has a huge built-in library of symbols for the architectural and entertainment industries. Vectorworks has a lot of problems including being expensive, prone to bugs, and not being very popular outside of our industry, but this symbol library is a big plus. It allows designers to drop in lights from all common manufacturers and have all of their attributes populated automatically. This can save huge amounts of time in calculating power needs, weight, and data distribution needs.
If other software could be expanded to have symbol libraries like this they could serve as a powerful competitor to Vectorworks. If there were multiple competing options in terms of software, each individual piece of software would be required to innovate and maintain competitive prices in order to stay relevant, making the world of CAD better for everyone.
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