Overview
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Explore the key elements of Autodesk Fusion 360 that every experienced AutoCAD user needs to know before moving their work to Fusion 360.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Similarities and differences between AutoCAD and Fusion 360
- Collaborating in Fusion Team and A360
- Fusion 360 file types
- The user interface
- Navigating in a model
- Sketch mode/environment
- Sketch constraints: Horizontal, vertical, and collinear
- Sketch constraints: Coincident, concentric, and midpoint
- Sketch constraints: Parallel, perpendicular, and tangent
- Sketch constraints: Equal, symmetry, fix, and curvature
- Sketch profiles and fully constrained
- Design intent
- Create tools: Sketch-based extrude and revolve
- Create tools: Sketch-based loft and sweep
- Create tools: Sketch rib and web
- Modify tools: Press pull
- Modify tools: Chamfer and fillet
- Modify tools: Draft and shell
- Modify tools: Combine
- Modify tools: Replace face, split face, and split body
- Creating components
- Inserting a component into an assembly
- The joint origin
- Joint motion types: Rigid, cylindrical, and joint
- Joint motion types: Pin-slot, slider, and ball
- Joint motion types: Planar
- Before creating a new drawing
- Drawing views
- Geometry annotations
- Dimensions and text
- Exploded assembly drawing
- Applying appearance
- Scene settings
- Importing with 2D AutoCAD file
- Importing an AutoCAD 3D file
- Applying joints to components
- Completing the assembly
- Exporting a drawing to DWG
- Importing and exporting DXF
- Next steps
