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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 the grip attachment

Continue working within the Holder 01 container. If you exited Fusion and then open the project up once again, Fusion will start with the top level being active instead of the Holder 01 container. Keep a watchful eye on the browser and which container has the black dot.

Follow these steps to create the grip attachment:

  1. Be sure that Holder 01 is your active component.
  2. Select the OFFSET PLANE tool and select the bottom face of the bottle holder. The reason why we are selecting that face is that if there are any changes made to the bottle holder body, such as its location, the grip will move as well.
Figure 9.15 – The OFFSET PLANE tool with a distance of –110 mm

Figure 9.15 – The OFFSET PLANE tool with a distance of –110 mm

  1. Create a new sketch on the new offset plane that we just created.
Figure 9.16 – Create the new sketch on the offset plane

Figure 9.16 – Create the new sketch on the offset plane

The screen will now change to view the sketch plane from the top view...