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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 part drawing

Placing drawings on a sheet helps to show the size of a part and how multiple parts may join. To fit large-sized objects onto a small sheet, you set the part to a scale, which lets someone know that the part has been scaled down to fit onto a drawing sheet.

For this section, we will pull in the parts and place them on a few separate drawings. One drawing will show the entire assembly, the next will show Holder 01, and the third will be Holder 2. Normally, you would dimension every area that a fabricator would need to create this part, but since we will be 3D-printing it, we will place some basic overall size dimensions.

Let’s get started:

  1. Open your bottle design project, if you had previously closed it out, click on the DESIGN drop-down arrow, and go to DRAWING | From Design:
Figure 10.49 – Drawing workspace location

Figure 10.49 – Drawing workspace location

  1. A CREATE DRAWING pop-up window will appear. Set the following selections:
    • Under...