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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 ghost

We will be using some more surface tools to create our ghost character. Feel free to go off-script if you want and create a ghost that you would like to use, using the same style as the one created here. Let’s get started:

  1. We need to create a new component by first activating the top level of the assembly. Hover the mouse over the tealight ghost, and select the dot to fill it in and make it active.
  2. Now, create a new component and give it the name Ghost.
Figure 12.8 – Creating a new component

Figure 12.8 – Creating a new component

  1. Click on the Create Sketch tool and then select the front face. Be sure that the Ghost component is active.
Figure 12.9 – Creating a new sketch on the front plane

Figure 12.9 – Creating a new sketch on the front plane

  1. Create another construction line from the midpoint vertically and horizontally, and then click on the Fit Point Spline tool once again, creating a shape that is similar to the one shown in Figure 12.10.
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