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Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By : Kevin Michael Land
Book Image

Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By: Kevin Michael Land

Overview of this book

Autodesk Fusion 360 has become an indispensable tool for designers, tinkerers, and engineers worldwide thanks to its versatility that allows for large-scale assemblies and smaller, quick 3D prints. If you’ve faced challenges with learning Fusion 360, this book will help you overcome them and build the confidence to design your own projects, explaining step-by-step instructions and the purpose of each tool. In this book, you’ll dive into the design workspace and learn sketching fundamentals such as setting up a component, recognizing when a sketch is fully constrained, and parametrically flexing models. Through trial and error, you’ll work on multiple easy-to-build projects to create simple, useful items that can be quickly 3D printed for use around the house and then advance to much bigger projects that require joint connectivity and large assemblies. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to sketch fully parametric designs, translate them into 3D models, and create your own unique designs.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Simple, Fun Projects for Around the Home
7
Part 2: Bicycle Water Bottle Holder Project
13
Part 3: FORM Modeling Techniques
17
Part 4: Working with 2D and 3D Scanned Images

Creating a 3D reference model

Another way to create a bottle 3D model would have been to use multiple sketches and then to use the Loft tool to generate a 3D model. Sometimes, that can complicate a model since we will have multiple sketches on multiple planes all at different heights, which can get confusing. Using one sketch profile can make a complicated model much easier to navigate: we will now use that single sketch to generate the 3D model using the following steps:

  1. Select the Revolve tool within the CREATE panel. The profile should be automatically selected. For Axis, select the long vertical line that represents the center of the bottle.
Figure 8.20 – Revolve tool location and axis selection

Figure 8.20 – Revolve tool location and axis selection

  1. After selecting the Axis line, another pop-up window will open with more options. We can leave these all at their defaults since we will need a full revolution of the profile to create the bottle. Click OK to close the REVOLVE dialog...