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Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By : Kevin Michael Land
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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

Improving the design

There is always room for improvement with any design, and this model is no exception. If you turn on the outer chair material, you’ll see that the inner frame sticks through it a little bit at the top and the bottom. We have two options here; we can either adjust the frame or adjust the form. It would be easier in real life to adjust the form, as we could simply stuff that area with more padding, so we will adjust the form model to fix this issue:

Figure 13.66 – The issues that need to be adjusted

Figure 13.66 – The issues that need to be adjusted

  1. Right-click on the Form icon in your Timeline, which should be the first thing that we created, and select Edit to go into the Form environment.
Figure 13.67 – Right-click to edit the original form

Figure 13.67 – Right-click to edit the original form

  1. Turn on symmetry by going to the SYMMETRY drop-down arrow and selecting Mirror - Internal. Select the two opposite faces of the center line.
Figure 13.68 – Turning on symmetry

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