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Get comprehensive training in Fusion 360, the cloud-powered 3D design and fabrication tool for product design, mechanical engineering, and fabrication.
Design differently with Fusion 360. This cloud-powered tool from Autodesk is the key to instant 3D creativity, used for product design, mechanical engineering, and fabrication. This essential training gives you the expertise to use Fusion 360 to turn your ideas into ready-to-manufacture designs that flow to 3D printing, CNC milling, or injection molding. Instructor Nick Kloski, founder of HoneyPoint3D, provides an overview of all the basic operations in Fusion 360, including sketching, extruding 3D objects, sculpting, and surface modeling. He explains the functions of the software, while providing a solid foundation in the basics of effective 3D design. Learn how to plan a project; model your ideas; work with sketches, meshes, and surfaces; generate files for 3D printing; and analyze your designs. Plus, learn how to create photorealistic renderings and even animations of your Fusion 360 designs.
Note: This course was created and produced by HoneyPoint3D. We are honored to host this training in our library.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Use Fusion 360 to turn your ideas into designs
- What Fusion 360 does
- What Fusion 360 does not do
- Fusion 360 competitors and companions
- The online aspect of Fusion 360
- Browser-based CAD
- Team and client collaboration
- What is covered in this course
- What is not covered in this course
- Introduction to creating basic shapes
- Fusion 360's environments
- Environments: Designing
- Environments: Showing
- Environments: Making
- User interface refresher
- Let's create some primitives
- An intro to sketching
- Sketch dimensions explained
- Extruding profiles to create objects
- What is lofting?
- Setting up your Loft profiles
- Lofting and controlling tangency
- Adding loft guide rails
- What are Sweeps?
- Fusion 360 can sculpt?
- What is surface modeling?
- Planning the process
- Take a step back
- Now get close and start drawing
- Overview of the timeline
- Editing via the timeline
- Why create user parameters?
- Timeline editing caveat: Sculpting
- The importance of edges
- The importance of cleanliness
- Intro: Modify and assemble tools
- Making shapes useful
- Making shapes nice
- Combining shapes
- Use patterns
- Sculpt edges and editing
- Analysis tools
- Analysis tools 2
- Measurement tools
- Exporting solid models
- Exporting polygonal models
- Introduction to the step-by-step section
- Introduction to planning your model
- Strategy: Inside-out
- Strategy: Outside-in
- Using paper, pencil, and a ruler
- Translating your design into a sketch
- Alternate: Uploading an image template
- Sketch and extrude the starter profile
- Creating a baseplate
- Create and extrude your aesthetic curves
- Bonus: Sweeping a lip
- Beauty through embellishments and fillets
- Introduction to sculpting the hanger
- Importing your template
- Sculpting a plane and editing the form
- Surface thickening the hanger portion
- Sketch and extrude a sculpted baseplate
- How to patch and stitch surface models
- Cutting holes and making it pretty
- Let's make some photos
- Setting up your render stage
- Exporting to Meshmixer for 3D printing
- Other software classes to check out
- Next steps
