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Use Fusion 360—the cloud-powered, accessible CAD and CAM tool—to design metal parts for machining.
If you're designing metal parts, you'll need to do things differently than you would for other materials and processes. This course shows how to use Autodesk Fusion 360âthe affordable cloud-powered CAD and CAM tool that works like more expensive, industry-focused toolsâto build effective designs specifically for subtractive manufacturing in metal. Thom Tremblay shows how to build solid designs, simulate how the model will hold up to the stress of production and use, render the design for presentation, and finalize it for manufacturing. The workflows showcased in this course are tailored to help the nonprofessional CAD user, and the maker, to be more effective and quickly have access to the tools that a few years ago were only available to the few and at an astronomical price.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Designing for metal manufacture
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Setting preferences
- Setting up parameters
- Bodies or components
- Joining components
- Animation
- 2D drawing tools for metal
- Rendering
- Collaboration
- Creating a static stress study
- Testing with an alternative material
- Overview of generative design
- Creating a setup
- Defining the toolpath
- Publishing and posting
- Next steps
