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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 chair in the form environment

In this chapter, we will create a floor gaming chair such as the one shown in Figure 13.1. The reason for creating the chair in the Form environment is that for a shape like this, it is much easier to create it using forms rather than trying to build it using a parametric model. For the interior framework in the next area we will use parametric modeling, since the interior framework is a more rigid structure, which parametric modeling is ideal for.

Figure 13.1 – The floor gaming chair final image

Figure 13.1 – The floor gaming chair final image

Let’s start by opening the Data panel, creating a new folder named Ch13 Gaming Chair in the PACKT pub project folder, and saving the file as Gaming Chair. Set the units of the drawing to inches:

  1. Go to the CREATE panel and click on the Form button. Then, go to the CREATE drop-down arrow and click on the YZ plane.
Figure 13.2 – The Torus tool location and plane selection

Figure 13.2 – The Torus tool location and plane selection...