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Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By : Kevin Michael Land
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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

Referencing the bicycle handlebars and water bottle models together

In Fusion 360, you can create components all located within the same model without having to pull externally referenced models, meaning I could have created the bicycle handlebars and bottle all in the same drawing if I wanted to. In this instance though, we created them separately and will bring them in as links into a new drawing:

  1. If you still have the bottle design open, start a new Fusion 360 drawing by clicking on the file icon in the top-left corner and then New Design, or by clicking on the + tab icon in the top right.
Figure 8.25 – New Design located within the file dropdown, and the location of the + icon

Figure 8.25 – New Design located within the file dropdown, and the location of the + icon

  1. You will need to save this new file before you can insert other parts into it; otherwise, you will receive an error asking you to save the file first. Hit the Save icon and name the file bicycle and bottle.
Figure 8.26 – Save dialog window

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