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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

Building the Bottle Holder

We finally come to the last part of our multichapter build: creating the bottle holder. We will use both reference models from the previous two chapters and create a new model to hold our bottle in place on our bicycle.

In this chapter, we will learn how to bring in both reference models from the previous two chapters and then build a new model from those reference models. This will give us a good idea of how large to make the bottle holder and how it will attach to the bicycle. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to import a part into your current design, build a new part from an existing design, and add an as-built joint to show simple movement.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Designing and drawing out the model
  • Creating the bottle holder body
  • Creating the grip attachment