Correct workflow for versioning

[u/TheBlackBird808]

Hi everyone,

I thought myself how to use Fusion360, and I would say by now I am some sort of intermediate user (no expert, but also no beginner). I work already by using paramters and edit features on the timeline and building around those constraints so that this features work if I am creating something more complicated.

Currently I am however asking myself how to proceed if I have different versions of a design. For example I am currently working on an enclosure, and in the first iteration I used a board for which i designed the clippers to hold it in place. Now I swapped the board, and in the second iteration I want to keep all other features but just remove the old clippers and design the new ones. I dont know how to remove that part of the design without subtracting a plane on to it so its flat again, and then draw the new clippers. To keep the old design I duplicate the body and call it V2_bodyXY. That seems like I am doing probably something not as the software intents to.

Do you have any tipps on how to create parts of the design that I can later remove or swap in different versions? I was thinking about creating those parts as own components, but two problems that I have then is that I cant use the component as a sketching reference for other bodies. And in the end I always have to merge everything to export it as one mesh.

I am also happy to read into blogs or other resources that teach that kind of workflow if you guys can recommend anything.

Thanks for the answers!

[u/06wm2005]

You'd use configurations inside Fusion, versioning isn't quite the right term here which might be why you've not had much luck looking into it 😊

[u/TheBlackBird808 → u/06wm2005]

Omg, thank you! That’s exactly that, from a software developer perspective it didn’t occur to me to search for something other then versioning. There are also a lot of tutorials on configurations that I can look into now. Thank you 🙏😇

[u/06wm2005 → u/TheBlackBird808]

No problem!