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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

The CREATE and MODIFY tools

It’s time to flex your artistic muscle now. In this section, we will explore the tools located within the CREATE panel and the MODIFY panel. These are the main areas that you will spend most of your time creating in within the FORM environment.

Let’s start by creating some artistic forms by using the CREATE and MODIFY tools together:

  1. Start a new drawing by clicking on File | New Design or by clicking on the plus (+) icon in the top-right corner.
Figure 11.12 – New Design location

Figure 11.12 – New Design location

  1. Click on the FORM tool within the CREATE panel to be brought into the FORM environment and then click on the Box tool within the CREATE panel.
Figure 11.13 – The location of the Box tool

Figure 11.13 – The location of the Box tool

  1. Select the bottom plane, then choose the center origin dot, and in the BOX options on the right side of the screen, choose Center for the Rectangle option.

Important note

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