This guide presents a quick overview of how to find and interact with Bommer for Fusion 360 within the Design and Drawing workspaces.

How to find Bommer

Design Workspace

Bommer is primarily located in the Utilities toolbar, inside the Design workspace within Fusion 360.  Bommer has it's own toolbar panel labeled "BOMMER".  By default, the two editing commands  Edit bill of materials... and  Edit part properties... are pinned for quick access. 

The rest of the commands can be found by clicking on the word BOMMER to expand the dropdown pane.

Drawing Workspace

Bommer also has a toolbar pane in the Drawings workspace, under Bommer.  This lets you access the drawing-specific commands Bommer has to offer, like  Export table image.

Command windows

Bommer uses a mix of standard Fusion 360 windows and web-based Fusion 360 "palettes". These windows serve the same purpose but behave a bit differently. For instance, palettes stay open when you run other commands, but they don't always respond to Enter and Escape keys. On the other hand, Fusion windows respond well to keys but may not be as quick as web windows. You can tell them apart by the buttons at the bottom; Bommer palettes have an orange OK button:

whereas standard Fusion 360 windows have grey buttons at the bottom:

Palette windows may also have a help button on the right side of the bottom of the window:

Both work to deliver the functionality of the app to you; we've largely chosen the type of window that let's us do that with the best end-use results.

Positioning and resizing your windows

In both types of windows, you can resize the window by clicking on the bottom right corner of the screen and dragging.  For standard Fusion 360 windows, this size is global across all command windows.  For palette windows, a per-window size is maintained but currently, reset when you close Fusion.  All windows can be docked to Fusion's left, right, top, or bottom edges by dragging the window until you see a green line representing the docked edges.